After KAYEEFI was born and bath Her veil was as tattered as a torn net Only a few friending shame vowed partnership. As time crept to welcome stages Her emergence and nature became a star She fights moral at every quarter Riding on the wings of civilization Her Veil peeled off, now in pure nakedness… Continue reading KAYEEFI by Yemi Osadiya
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MOREMI AJASORO by Ololade Akinlabi
Taking thoughts backward, Reminiscences of ancients; They are lost in memories Pieces left are hymns in holy papers Perhaps, discos are the better dance steps. Taking thoughts backward, Ancient archives plied through wind Whirling wind, in my memory they lodge, Descedants of living sculptures we are We are, offsprings of a heroine; MOREMI AJASORO. Night… Continue reading MOREMI AJASORO by Ololade Akinlabi
BALOGUN by Samuel Amazing Ayoade
. Tell Are-Ona-Kakanfo that Balogun, the man of war is back from war. . Balogun, the son of seven thunders in the days of seven wonders kills the war and takes plunders I am the Balogun of words for I know the alphabets that put strife asunder. . Tell Oba Alayeluwa Let the town-crier bear… Continue reading BALOGUN by Samuel Amazing Ayoade
MOREMI by Samuel Amazing Ayoade
empty gourds of palmwine clanging at the palace gates though I have not seen a drunk King Akogun! We have lost the battle again where are the men of war? but how? could men have conquered demons with burning torches. . the last masquerade to dance at the village square a moon ago did not… Continue reading MOREMI by Samuel Amazing Ayoade
GATAN AREWA by Ken Mamman
Taka a hankali Most beautiful Yarinya yar north-side Sarautar ki is not what we see everyday Yours is in the zuciya They see you but can’t look at you Your beauty brightens the day Of those that like tagumi It shines so brightly that Even the sun cannot contest The moon is so jealous Of… Continue reading GATAN AREWA by Ken Mamman
DANCE STEPS by Teslim Omipidan
Her hips swayed rhythmically to the tempo of the mystical Bàtá beaten with the hands of antiquity at the village square. Elders nodded in accordance, onlookers cheered in glee while trees incessantly bowed at the command of an ancestral wind to the dancing goddess, Omolewa, the mistress of the brave hunter whom with a wave… Continue reading DANCE STEPS by Teslim Omipidan
ALMAJIRI: THE HAUSA MALE by Theophilus ‘Femi Alawonde
The very day that Audu was born, his father said, ‘I will not raise a son!’ So the day he became five years, he was sent out admist his sisters’ tears. He was given a small hollow plate, and was told not to return home for food. He was to fend for himself as a… Continue reading ALMAJIRI: THE HAUSA MALE by Theophilus ‘Femi Alawonde
A SONG OF COLOR by Efe Ogufere
I am the black, The humus deep within the earth, The life and succor to a dying seed The hope of a thousand souls that draw breath Melanin in tears trickle into the earth, At the same spot where our humanity bled Is that resentment you wear on your eyelids, For a coat of epidermis… Continue reading A SONG OF COLOR by Efe Ogufere
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 seldom Negroes is what they call us Yet pride bestows in our skin Far away from home…….. That evening granny folktales Lie in pieces of… Continue reading AFRIKA THE SLEEPING GIANT by Ololade Akinlabi
BACK IN THIS PLACE by Samuel Amazing Ayoade
I’m back in this place where the moon rejoices at the hearing of melodious lullabies sung into the cranium of crying babies who are stuck to mother’s backs at the end of noon tide. . I’m back in this place where death raises the deads of the cemetry and hades and the grave bow their… Continue reading BACK IN THIS PLACE by Samuel Amazing Ayoade