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 </div><p>Sullen expressions upheld by facial muscles<br>
Of heroes past<br>
Zik, Awo, Tafa and their brethren under one communion<br>
Unhappy in their colonity*<br>
Rose with a vengeance<br>
To agitate and initiate<br>
A mighty movement<br>
Reminisce then on<br>
Broken spirits and bloodied struggles<br>
All enacted in a bid for liberty<br>
Obtained on 1st October 1960<br>
An independence clothed in white and green<br>
And devoid of the union jack<br>
A precursor to self governance and unedited joys.</p>
<p>Let us ask ourselves<br>
What we celebrate<br>
For tribalism and its vices abound<br>
Unhealthy conflicts in play<br>
Agitations in foray<br>
And I ponder why<br>
A unity hard fought for<br>
Is now hard looked for<br>
And we the people<br>
Long imbued with the spirit of endurance<br>
Refuse to change the tenets of our situation<br>
Ironically<br>
Suffering and smiling<br>
Nnamdi Azikiwe<br>
Obafemi Awolowo<br>
Tafawa Balewa<br>
Turn in their graves<br>
Their joys turned to emptiness<br>
At a country<br>
56 years old<br>
And yet achieved nothing<br>
But that does not stop me<br>
From being extremely proud<br>
Of the greatest black nation to exist, Nigeria.</p>
<p>Hence<br>
As we celebrate today<br>
Let us celebrate a new independence<br>
A new beginning<br>
And a new month<br>
Let us swim in the sweat of our fores<br>
And then distil it<br>
To access fresh opportunities<br>
That will heal our nation<br>
And engage the land</p>
<p>Remember<br>
This is October<br>
They burn still, our glorious embers<br>
In our resilience as a people, outside and inside chambers<br>
And the world will be awed and stand still<br>
At our strong and mighty will<br>
The name is JesseAnz<br>
And I am proud to be a citizen of Africa’s giant</p>
 
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A NEW INDEPENDENCE by Jesse Asonze
