It was a long time ago,
in South Africa contrasts .
Where Africans had to fight for their basic civil rights,
the right to vote, the right to be equal.

Stephen Biko,
a man who took a stand who gave his life to be equal.
Who was taken away from his people, who too wanted to be equal.
But that could not stop the cause, the fight to be equal.

They took to the streets, and shouted their plea.
Let us be equal, let us be free.
They followed in his steps and gave up not an inch.
The whites, could but stand and watch,
as they march through Africa,
the land of the contrasts .

Their movement did not but stay on the streets,
but went onto the paper,
onto TV.

With South African Students founded by Biko stood up for their rights,
they were beaten, arrested, and kept from their world.
Their pleas were not silenced by the might of their hits,
because they fought to be equal, they fought to be free.

Their pleas were heard,
their rights were restored,
they fought to be equal, they fought to be free.
In Africa, the land of contrasts.