Song for the Lusitanian Bogey,describes the history of original colonization in Angola,the social conditions in Portugal African colonies , the liberation struggle,much of the play is sung either solo or with the chorus.the patern is repeated over and over,regardlessof the name of the white conquerer or whether the victims are african,aztecs or incas,white european were searching for sea route to india and pioeple of third world had to pay the costs and up to the present day they havent stop paying the costs.



ironically a cotton picker cant afford to buy a cotton skirt

forced labor of diamond diggers and miners,women and children all forced to work in plantations,and are excluded from any education. and any slightest hint of resistance against rules and regulations,the cost is increased enormously.

men are arrested and a wive describes it.

an airplane flew with what was left of our husbands
in sacks far out over the sea after days
the tide then washed back what was left onto the beach
arms legs the torsos


the horror inflicted on the bodies of the colonizers


they have taken the owner of a sawmill
and his family
and tied them to boards and run them
lengthwise through the buzz saw



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