“Africa for Sale” is a “classic BANTU blues” in every sense of the word, one of
those songs where the band shows how fragile and vulnerable life can be. The lyrics discuss the largely sad state of affairs in Africa, with the rampant looting, theft by old colonial masters and today’s imperial powers like Russia and China, and counterposes to
that the potential for a true African renaissance. For now however, Nigeria and Africa
broadly are being picked apart by “friends” new and old alike, and the future will be as
grim as the past if we don’t move beyond our blissful ignorance that allows our past, present and future to be extracted by others. T