MY COLOR, MY PRIDE by Christopher Titus
As I stand on the hilltops Gazing deep down the valleys I behold you The dwarf but bravest of all Though amidst thorns and giants Your branch produces the best...
WE ARE TIRED OF GROWING by Oppong Clifford Benjamin
Over here, life is on pause like Auntie Fafa's uncompleted structure. On its half course walls, red markings read 'Stop work, produce permit by KMA'. It has been there since...
HOW LONG? (FOR MOTHER AFRICA) by Ogedengbe Tolulope Impact
Mama, Have you seen your children Scattered all around Like sheep without a shepherd? Have you seen them Been dispersed like dry pollen grains In the hands of strangers Who...
I AM A BLACK MAN by El Sane Ken Silencer
Living in a modern world, full of colours Chameleon, it's odour! Hidden I have merengue my tongue to be modern 'Good morning!' I have learnt saying this at the wake...
TAKE ME HOME by Ifeanyi Alex
I like to feel it again When you will take me home And I will gaze thru the window as we wheel-on For as far as we journey forward Trees...
AGUGUALA NA-ENWEGHI PEEJI NKE by Valentine Ozié Mbagu
O ruru otu mgbe ke peeji nke akụkọ ihe mere eme; Adị akụkọ ihe mere eme na-enweghị dịghị peeji nke, Uwa bi n'etiti nke ụmụ mmadụ; Na n'Eluigwe mere ụmụ...
THE AFRICAN WOMAN by Samuel Amazing Ayoade
Epitome of virtue I see, Building a house of fortune icy, Foundation of moderacy and modesty. Even without amnesty, The African woman remains loyal. Her blackness lightens the darkness, For...
LET’S DANCE AFRICA by Mesioye Affable Johnson
Under this sighing moon did we gather beliefs Into the howling calabash of whirling Western Culture, Which left splashes of abnormalities on our faces, After piles of tainted tales struck...
A MAP OF AFRICA by Onisowurun Sampson
(I) I see them all The grey and concrete pillars of a continent The entrails of the yoked in spirit Sealed here and there over the land. I see the...
THE AFRICAN WOMAN by Goodness Ayoola
Tonight, the moon has refused to wane Milky, she stays watching… The figure nightly clothed, flanked with duty The pestle woman and the defeated yam In the rugged mortal to...