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TO THE DIASPORA: YOU DID NOT KNOW YOU WERE AFRIKA, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you set out for afrika
Last Line: Your work, that was done, to be done to be done to be done
Subject(s): African Americans; Ancestors & Ancestry; Negroes; American Blacks; Heritage; Heredity




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