I don't understand how anyone can think it is about slavery or anything racist. If anything, it is actually a celebration of Africa, a place the narrator embraces, and feels drawn to. It's another clever song with a double meaning, the man is in love with a woman from Africa, but also there's a deeper spiritual connection to Africa, because that is where human beings originated from on this planet. He blesses the rains in Africa, because he sees the wonder of the place and although in the present, society now demarcates people into "races" based, he feels he is going back to his roots, and he is glad for it.
I don't understand how anyone can think it is about slavery or anything racist. If anything, it is actually a celebration of Africa, a place the narrator embraces, and feels drawn to. It's another clever song with a double meaning, the man is in love with a woman from Africa, but also there's a deeper spiritual connection to Africa, because that is where human beings originated from on this planet. He blesses the rains in Africa, because he sees the wonder of the place and although in the present, society now demarcates people into "races" based, he feels he is going back to his roots, and he is glad for it.