WHO ARE ITS VICTIMS by Ngovou Gyang
I just came out of surgery I’ve got just one eye now because of his battery He used the baseball bat on my head And tossed the flower vase on...
A NEW INDEPENDENCE by Jesse Asonze
Sullen expressions upheld by facial muscles Of heroes past Zik, Awo, Tafa and their brethren under one communion Unhappy in their colonity* Rose with a vengeance To agitate and initiate...
SONS OF ALÁGBÈDE by Biodun Alabi
We shall rise on this day To dance on this clay For we shall proceed to Àgbède shed And stop all ìfonáfonsu Let the women converge at the square Let...
WHAT MYSTERY! by Theophilus Femi Alawonde
Life- is a mystery. For there lie a million and one things that we know not. Life- is a mystery. For each day has a million and one events whose...
MUCUS OF REASON by Oluwatoyosi Agbaakin
He must have wiped the mucus of reason- a pus from his brain the night he saw her body swollen, ready to be poked by his fleshy pincers How couldn't...
A WOMAN SHOULD COOK by Kukogho Iruesiri Samson
I sat there in my little, steamy kitchen Deaf to both tweeting and preaching As I stirred the porridge in my shiny pot “A wife should cook,” was all I...