With guiltless thoughts,

My pride gleams,

The love for my race,

Color and culture.

Proudest of men I am,

My birth as an African.

Isn’t Afroism a pride ̶

A pride of Blackness?

Isn’t Black a beauty ̶

A color amongst several?

Call me Black;

I’ll smile the warmest.

Ridicule my race;

I’ll stand the proudest.

I am African ̶

From head to bottom.

My color, a pride;

Afroism – a pride, a will.

By: Joseph Warkreh T-Toe from his anthology The Voice of my Silence