So, are boys really a ‘special’ burden to raise? Is Life itself is a lot of work. Is parenting itself is a lot of work. Is raising girls also not a lot of work? What useful thing in this world does not require lots of work? Why just boys? Why not children?
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MUTED CRIES OF NIGER DELTA (POEM BY NIMI NISAKPO)
Victims we areOf ethnic majority,Alienation the daily routine,We must unopposedly observeOur agitation for freedom and equality,Branded treason. Echoed thieves,Called oil bunkerersPoachers of our resources,Born slaves in our land.Marginalized, strongly considered...
ON REPUTATION, LIFE & DEATH (AN ESSAY BY OPPONG CLIFFORD BENJAMIN)
It is not death we must pray against or fear but rather sickness. Because sickness leaves us in between standing for life and falling for death. To be sick is to battle for life against death. It means something is coming for your dreams and aspirations, something is erasing your name gradually from the living and at the same time registering your name in the books of death.
MIND YOU (A POEM BY EL SANE KEN SILENCER)
Mind you They are them that love talking Them that will tell you How afar others have gone in life Mind you They will tell you That he, that brother...
‘SUICIDE’ & ‘THE NIGHT IS NOT DARK’ (POEMS BY YUSUFF UTHMAN ADEKOLA)
Suicide First, the mind dies, leaves life, but returns as a zombie covered in festering wounds of thoughts. Then, so the world does not weep before their time to weep,...
CHUKWUEMEKA AKACHI: AN AFRICAN KNOWS NO DEPRESSION – (COMMENTARY BY OPPONG CLIFFORD BENJAMIN)
So the brilliant and successful Nigerian writer, Chukwuemeka Akachi died in suicide and I am not moaning. Akachi had nothing in life to trade for life. He was only waiting...
ADENIYI’S ‘THE EFFECTUAL, FERVENT PRAYER’ IS PURPOSEFUL, NOT PATRONISING & FOR THOSE WILLING TO TREAD THE PATH OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
While reading this text, you don’t get the feeling of a patronising, self-absorbed preacher talking down at his congregation but of a forgiving preacher who realizes he is as vulnerable to weakness as a human as much as the reader.
REVIEW: THE ILLUMINANT’S LESSONS LEAVE LASTING IMPRESSIONS & REMIND OF THE SURREALISM OF EXISTENCE
The Illuminant has moral and didactic lessons. The poet is almost like a seer who is trying to align mankind with morality.
DARKEST HOUR by Anyanwu Sixtus
I met love just like the cloud couldHold the glittering stars so dearWill my love for her go clandestineAfter ages upon ages do I waitJust to have her been cuddled...
LOSING UNSPOKEN LOVE by El Sane Ken Silencer
The star that glisten the night, if gone, darkness eschew' the eyes light, leaving the soul restless; love built unspoken, kills when lost and of it is the most brutal...