Roland Tombekai Dempster

Roland Tombekai Dempster was a remarkable Liberian writer. Dempster was born  in Tosoh (on the banks of Lake Piso), Grand Cape Mount County in the Republic of Liberia, in 1910.His writings includes: "The Mystic Reformation of Gondolia" ," A Song Out of Midnight: Souvenir of the Tubman-Tolbert Inauguration”, and "Africa's Plea". He died in 1965, but his great writings still remain. It is a true representation of the talent and success Liberia has. Understand the Struggles and appreciate the Greatness! Here is a poem by Dempster.

Africa's Plea
            by: Roland Tombekai Dempster

I am not you
But you will not
Give me a chance,
Will not let me be me.


"If I were you"
But you know
I am not you,
Yet you will not
Let me be me.

You meddle, interfere
In my affairs
As if they were yours
And you were me.

You are unfair, unwise
Foolish to think
That I can be you,
Talk, act
And think like you

God made me me
He made you you
For God's sake
Let me be me