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I'm a African, I'm a African And I know what's happenin' I'm a African, I'm a African Archaeologists know what's happenin' You a African? You a African? Do you know what's happenin'? I'm a African, I'm a African Geneticists know what's happenin' No I wasn't born in Ghana but Africa is my mama Cause that's where my mama got her mitochondria You can try to fight if you wanna, but it's not gonna change me Cause it's plain to see, Africans are my people And if it's not plain to see then your eyes deceive you I'm talkin' primeval; the DNA in my veins Tells a story that reasonable people find believable But it might even blow your transistors; Africa is the home of our most recent common ancestors Which means human beings are all brothers and sisters So check the massive evidence of Homo erectus And Australopithecus afarensis in the fossil record And then try to tell me that we're not all connected The fossil record has gaps but no contradictions And it complements the evidence in your chromosomes So I came to let you know about your ancestral home SongtexteI'm a African, I'm a African And I know what's happenin' I'm a African, I'm a African Archaeologists know what's happenin' You a African? You a African? Do you know what's happenin'? I'm a African, I'm a African Geneticists know what's happenin' Yeah, it's plain to see, you can't change me Cause I'ma be a Homo sapien for life Yeah, it's plain to see, you can't change me Cause I'ma be a Homo sapien for life Yeah, the red is for the blood in my arm it runs in the veins Of all my cousins from the same African mom And the black is for the melanin, which I guess I lost A mutation with benefits that offset the costs At least in the North, after massive glaciation My family passed through some adaptive radiations We started as Africans, and then became Eurasians And then one final migration made us Canadians But it's back to my origin, cause I understand For every colour of man, Africa is the motherland So I'm comin' back, that's my right of return I'm only speakin' the facts, which I invite you to learn We came from Africa first; Charles Darwin predicted it Cause that's where modern chimps and gorillas live So the green is for the envy in the eyes of intelligent design Advocates and scientific illiterates I'm a African, I'm a African And I know what's happenin' I'm a African, I'm a African Archaeologists know what's happenin' You a African? You a African? Do you know what's happenin'? I'm a African, I'm a African Geneticists know what's happenin' Yeah, C-A-N-A-D-A Asia, U-K, U-S-A R-U-S-S-I-A No, it ain't bout where you stay It's bout the motherland C-H-I-N-A A-U-S-T-R-I-A Oz, Tazmania, and Ukraine No, it ain't bout where you stay It's bout the motherland M-O-N-G-O-L-I-A Saudi Arabia and Kuwait Sweden, Denmark, and Norway No, it ain't bout where you stay It's bout the motherland C-O-L-O-M-B-I-A Costa Rica, I-N-D-I-A First nations in A-L-A-S-K-A No, it ain't bout where you stay It's bout the motherland Aus Songtexte Mania