Give Me a Chance
I am a girl child
I need education
Daddy,
I want to be like you
I need your priority
Enroll me to school
To achieve my success in life
I have a career
I can be a doctor
Lawyer or even an engineer
I can make it daddy
If you give me a chance
I am a girl child
I need education
I don't want to just stay at home
I want to study daddy
Mommy, talk to daddy
Married is my own choice
I will marry a man of my own
Daddy and mummy
Don't book me off
To an old man
Twice your age daddy
I am not a luggage
I am human being
I have a right
To choose a man of my choice
When I need a man
In my life
I want to go to school
I can make it daddy
If you give me a chance
I am a girl child
I need education
Daddy and mummy
Be gender sensitive
Don't be gender bias
I can't watch
Deng and Gatluak
Going to school happily
And I remain sadly at home
Looking after children
Fetching water, cooking
And washing of utensils
I need to go to school too
I can make it daddy
If you give a chance
I am a girl child I need education
Daddy and mummy
We girls
We need to go to school
We can be high achievers
We can be role models
Girls,
Stand up for your rights
Say no to early marriages
Say no force marriages
Say no to gender bias
Say yes to education
We can make it daddy
If you give us a chance.
- Kim Simon Jial
The Mask of Love and Tradition of Africa by Victor Jal Abur
