AFRIKA THE SLEEPING GIANT by Ololade Akinlabi
Far from home..... Beyond the sea is where we reside Where shivering usher out Our glowing teeth not to smile But to beckon to the frigid weather Our complexion is...
ORDER OF THE DAY by Akodu Oluwaseun Shedrack
When days were still days indeed. When common man's food was at hand When we drank palmwine with one calabash. When we had our nights without head-lost There is an...
MY LOCER TURNS TO A WITCH ON SUNDAYS by Oppong Clifford Benjamin
I was as sure as faith and dance as darkness and its absence and as heaven and humans- I had no doubt that God was here And that God was...
UNRIPE MOTHERS by Akodu Oluwaseun Shedrack
Mothers! the ones we had in those days They were mothers of reference and reverence The ones we knew then are Nation-building mothers... The ones we had then were Ransom-payer...
PAGAN’S PARADISE by Efe Ogufere
Guns and roses In pairs and poses A silver bullet Pierces your soul A bleeding petal Numbs the pain Karma is fickle A book keeper With terrible skills Life is...
DEATH, WHY? by Theophilus Femi Alawonde
for the young ones who have died before their time (Alawonde Lois. I., Dare Sax, Ayantoye Ayantosho and others) Why do you lay your cold fingers, on the ones who...
COURAGE OVER DISCOURAGEMENT by Uchenna Egbo
And so I thought of giving up, Having gained little from my effort. Courage did less to make me up, All I felt like was as an isolated maggot. The...
LIVE by Eseohe Ebhota Akoma
Live in the active voice, not the passive. Think more about what you make happen than what happens to you. Live in the indicative mood rather than in the subjective....
BEFORE 1960’s by Isoboye Danagogo
Before 1960's • There was a country Like fields with grasses. We had bodied men with beards and brains; Wisdom of grey hairs. Our schools was certificated with pure degrees....
IFEMI by Kenneth Mamman Alli
Ifemi oh ifemi, ebony of beauty, a true african beauty, a model endowed with true african asthetics look at her so calm, smiling lik an angel, sent from heaven, her...