Chimps are our National Champions
Poem by: Rakiatu Jalloh of Patriotic Advocacy Network (PAN).
These cute looking creatures
Are now our biggest treasure
Knowing they are now part of us, gives me pleasure
They are important and that’s for sure
Their existence is part of our culture
Our closest living relatives
Very big and strong
Long arms to gently swing on top
Walks on upright or on fours
Its expensive face pierces my cores.
So let’s ensure they are safe and secured
Their cries we shouldn’t ignore
we shouldn’t ignore
Let’s demonstrate true Heroism
For they are now the new face of Tourism
Replacing our Diamonds Fascism
So let’s ensure they are safe and secured
Their cries we shouldn’t ignore
Chimps are our National Animals
A history in the whole wide world
We shouldn’t treat them like criminals
Let’s make the country safe for them all
By embracing them all with love
So let’s ensure they are safe and secured
Their cries we shouldn’t ignore
They are symbol of our strength,
Our stunning natural breath,
Rich biodiversity and resilience
Threat to Chimp Population is threat to wildlife protection
Economy growth through sustainable ecotourism
So let’s ensure they are safe and secured
Their cries we shouldn’t ignore
A wildlife focused tourism
Can have on a country’s economy
What matters is the necessities
Let’s invest on our chimps
Once had all, lost all
Yelling for help
The world telling us to help down on life’s luck
So let’s ensure they are safe and secured
Their cries we shouldn’t ignore
The zoo is small
But the impact is for all
And that’s for sure
Light up the cave
For they shall bring in mind no pain
One way or the other, we are just the same.
Let’s pave a smooth way
And embrace them in good faith
So let’s ensure they are safe and secured
Their cries we shouldn’t ignore
Strange,
Now they are losing it range,
Written all over their faces
They wish to be free from those cages
Hate this,
The truth is
They need peace,
Seek ease,
So get this,
For they are evolved species.
So let’s ensure they are safe and secured
Their cries we shouldn’t ignore
Depression is boring don’t you think?
Let’s grant them the free will beneath
To be free from that will breathe.
So let’s ensure they are safe and secured
Their cries we shouldn’t ignore
They lost the courage to envisage
The knowledge to beg
The intelligence for preference
Sacred of their demise
So let’s end the endless cries
So let’s ensure they are safe and secured
Their cries we shouldn’t ignore
We call on all citizens, influential people
Local celebrities, public officials
To promote the message in our nation
Imagine news like: “Sierra Leone leads the way in conservation”
So let’s ensure they are safe and secured
Their cries we shouldn’t ignore
Because Chimps are our National Champions
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