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In Amerigo, Carnival was as hallowed as Christmas itself 
Perhaps slightly more so 
There was a meaning to it 
See, Islanders did not put into words 
Yet which made it the authentic supreme day in the Kinjian calendar 
Africa was marching down the main street of this little harbor town today 
Africa, in undimmed black vitality, surging up out of centuries of island 
displacement, island slavery, island isolation, island ignorance 
Africa, unquenchable in its burning love of life 
Carnival was Africa Day in Amerigo 
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