[Intro] Mama, mamaaa, Mama Africa Mama Mamaaa… [Chorus] Dem tell wi say AIDS come from Africa Dem tell wi say slaves come from Africa Dem tell wi fi stay far from Africa ‘Cause dem say a pure war dung a Africa [Verse 1] Mother of civilization One less than fifty-five nation Look pon di globe is like the heart of the world All part of the world, dem a feel the vibration Di Rasta man dem a say repatriation Marcus Garvey did preach the migration But dem a tell wi a nuh visa yuh need fi go deh Yuh need immunization… [Chorus] Dem say Ebola, dung a Africa Den wha happen to whole heap a gold wha dung a Africa How dem nuh tell wi bout di night life ina Africa Like she a just jungle and wildlife, denh a Africa [Verse 2] Let's ask di people in the heart of the Congo If a really Tarzan a di King of the Jungle We know seh every elephant a nuh Jumbo And a nuh everybody tall like Mutumbo Show wi all di king dem and di queen dem And not only the starving refugees dem My African ancestors lived as freemen So hear wha me a pree den… [Chorus] How dem say slaves come from Africa Dem tell wi say AIDS come from Africa Dem tell wi fi stay far from Africa Because dem say a pure war dung a Africa [Verse 3] Mama, mama, mama Africa Mama, mama… Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Liberia And mi say Chad and Egypt, Cameroon, Nigeria Then hear mi now Senegal, Ivory Coast, Liberia The Central African Republic, Uganda in the interior Then follow mi now… Hear mi now Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa back to Zambia Hey Madagascar, say Batswana, Angola And mi say Namibia, hey Gabon Togo and Ghana, Sierra Leon to the Gambia Ivory Coast… Mama Africa, Mama Africa