Voices of women

Voices, voices, our voices

Women’s voices in unison

Her voice resonating

The din of my voice

Our voices of struggle

His story they wrote

Ignored her story with impunity

Littered are the pages of history

Littered with a counterfeit story

That ignores our indelible input

This is our story of struggle

The story of victory this is

Against the psychological warfare

The many hurdles of oppression surmounting

Refusing to be second class citizens

This is the story of ambuya nehanda, gogo tenkela

The story of sally mugabe, ruth chinamano

The story of teurai ropa mujuru, joana mafuyana nkomo

The story of queen nzinga, yaa asantewa

Miriam makeba, ruth first and all the women

Girl child embrace these lessons now

These lessons of greatness

This is no time for self pity

The time to build on the firm foundation this is

The foundation of turmoil and tenacity

The voices of triumph hear

Voices of women in all spheres

In all spheres of human endeavour

Refusing that this is a man’s world

Voices, voices debunking that myth