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Where Were You In '94?

from Welcome by James Wood

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The Rwandan genocide of 1994. The Belgian Colonisation of Congo and its devastating separation of two fictional tribes, Hutus and Tutsis. The seclusion of Dian Fossey in the jungle with the gorillas.

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Where Were You In '94?

When I think of '94,
I think of what I saw on the documentary on TV.
I think of you Stanley[ville].
I think of the rows and rows, and the rows and the rows.

What did it say on your ID?
Did they mark your name with a H or a T?
Did they measure your skull?

I think of war,
Not of playgrounds and playtime and milk and teething and nursery school.

Where are you now Stanley?
Where are you now?
Did you change your name?
Did they change your race?
Are you up in the mountains with Dian, or down here with your fellow man?
Where are you now Stanley?

(So many lost)

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from Welcome, released June 22, 2012
Features an extract from 'M'Bifo' by Rokia Traore, from the album Bowmboi. Title inspired by the completely unrelated Zomby record 'Where Were U In '92?' the year I was born.

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