Ethiopia Loves Langston Hughes

The Love is mutual!




As it is evident in many of his works, on the poem bellow, Langston Hughes writes positively about Africa. Some Africans are currently translating Langston Hughes' poems to different African languages.





The Negro Speaks of Rivers

I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow
of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.

I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went
down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn
all golden in the sunset.

I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

-- Langston Hughes

One of the rivers that Langston Hughes wrote about is the Nile river that is found in East Africa and is the longest river on earth.

The Nile River is mentioned as flowing out of the Garden of Eden in the Bible. Here are some pictures of the magnificent Nile, also know as Abay and Ghion River.