In many cities of the world, especially the under developing countries, writers have been subject of abuse, neglect, exploitation and even in extreme cases murdered by evil critics who don’t critique constructively. These writers, expected mirrors through which we see the society or rather the eyes of the society or something...
The major aim of any organized society is the preservation of peace and order. From time immemorial, when anarchy, chaos, confusion and disorder had been the order of the day, societies thrived on lawlessness. With the advent of civility and civilisation, it became paramount and important to lay down an...
Once upon a time In a country I call mine There rose a broom party Fed by change clothed sympathy An entity of old wine in a new skin A unity of souls, so selfishly mean Cobbled together by a sole interest To grab the treasury’s crest They...
Words Rhymes & Rhythm Publishers invites poets from Nigeria to enter their poems for the September 2018 edition of the BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST (BPPC). This month’s theme is: ‘NIGERIA 2019: OF THUMBS & PVCs’ and it will be the last for the 2018 Season of the BPPC. For the better part...
Throw JOS some black lit candles. Again we write more chapters in our ‘book of bloods’ with the narratives, an heritage for distant tongues to tell whose skins are unpeeled by cowry demons, but bruised as Benue, Taraba, Nasarawa, Adamawa, Kaduna, Zamfara,… and more to come. I hear that there...
(…a tribute in respect of the honour conferred on him by President Muhammadu Buhari) Kashimawo, “Let us wait and see” so They said but Heroes don’t die, No. They are the colours of the rainbow and possess the heart of the sun. They are eagles soaring on time’s wings, alphabeting...
Hi guys, so we’re compiling a list of bookstores that stock books by Nigerian authors and deliver to prospective buyers all over the country. Our intention with this project is to be able to identify reliable booksellers all over the country and use this to help more authors reach their...
Yesterday was Theirs they bemoaned Guma’s…fall Today, ours we tell of Mbalom’s… unripe pause; and Tomorrow, sure, shall be history’s reawakening in Mama’s four forks for ours is a land of milk and bloods, of the basket full of fractured flesh, of curtains and thunderstorms where The maze has been...
doctored or un-doctored, black or white, he is only human for though the sun kings today, tomorrow shall be the moon’s. lies or truths; we deserve some white words so we can appease our souls and boycott the many laughters of the human race; pistol dukes. we are all lunatics...
Come, Let’s all go a hunter to the bank of Benue river for there could be the Python(s) that bank(s) the wealth of a nation; and not flesh or eggs, or fertile Aso rats, no more as desserts. Wait! Let’s chew again some sweet fables how green is Green’s grass...
