Anytime you file your tax inna America (Larry King)
Anytime you file your tax inna Europa (David Beckham)
Anytime you file your tax inna Australia (Jeff Fenech)
Anytime you file your tax inn Asia (Yao Ming)

Remember that your money can end up in the pocket of some corrupt leader
Or you money can be that money that is used to buy guns and ammunitions
To kill women and children in Africa
Because your government gives it to Africa as aid
So put pressure on your government to do more to stop
Oppression, corruption, dictatorship

Chorus
Africa, where I wanna be
Life for be simple as A-B-C-D
The leaders them a greediness plenty plenty
E make the whole thing dey look like horror movie
Africa, where I wanna be
Life for be simple as A-B-C-D
The leaders them a greediness plenty plenty
E make the whole thing dey look like scary movie
Belly belly full wey dey kill them (2x)
Them a belly full wey we thirsty
Wanna be greddy o (2x)

Now listen, TIA
This is Africa, this be Africa
This is Africa, where I wanna be
This is where you got fruits on trees for free
And when it rains, you got diamonds on the ground for free
Sunshine and rain, to grow the seed
Timber and gold , plenty plenty
Now we get plenty oil abundantly
Life for be easy as A-B-C-D
Prosperity, na this for be the key
But what do we see? Disease be all we dey see
HIV, e kill mummy and daddy
Hungry, we no dey get food to eat
In this 21st century, some school under trees
In the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty
Cos we've had leaders like Iddi Amin, Fode Sanko, Charles Taylor and Farrah Ahin
Can you imagine a man like Jonas Savimbi
And in Southern Sudan, there is the Janjaweed
And they terrorize and kill women and babies
And in Somalia, there has never been peace
In Liberia, 10 years of brutality
And in Sierra Leone, you don't wanna know
The Lord's Resistance Army, oh, it's a pity
They fight over diamonds and kill people
Who have never seen the diamonds in their lives before
They kill pregnant women and they think it's funny
Abi you hear about the civil war in Rwanda
Where the Hutus and the Tutsis commit atrocities
And they display millions of people in Burundi
After Mobutu Sese Seko and his Zaire
Then we think the Congo go ever be free
But Lord Makunda and his army still dey in the trees
But in Cote d'Ivoire, ebe ethnicity
You dey destroy this beautiful African country
How on earth can you have a leader like General Guei
But for Zimbabwe, ebe Mugabe
You no go fit be like Mr. Mandela, Mugabe?
Your people dey hungry and your big belly full
Ebe vanity upon vanity, Mugabe
Hey Raila Odinga, Mwai Kibaki
I hear say you people smoke some peace pipe
I don't believe, I think you smoke the weed
Cuz you no dey even care how your people dey feel
Idriss Deby, would there ever be some peace country in Chad, your beloved country
Africa dey under siege, there is the need for speed
I sit back and watch Africa like ebe horror movie
Nah this be rumble in the jungle, season 23

Repeat Chorus

Bridge 2x
Hrrr heeee hrrrr heee hrrrr
The leaders them dey scare scare we too much
Them alone wanna hide hide and chop all
You no go give we some (2x) (too bad too bad)

(Africa, fire in Africa, fire in Africa, hunger in Africa loop)
Stop the war, stop the killings, stop corruption
Wipe up dictatorship
We need peace in Africa
We need schools, we need education
We need houses, we need peace
Make this place a better place for us
For our children, and our children's children
No more dictatorship, oppression, corruption, Oh, malnutrition
Oh Lord

Africa, give us reason to live
Let's live in Africa
No more war!

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