GET WELL SOON by Ayeyemi Taofeek
President Muhammad Bukhari, get well soon. People who want him dead, get well soon. Because he is sick, must you then be sick? And for haired-heads, is it a sin...
DECAYING FLOWERS
The circling vultures were in the centre of a gaiety. Some famished ones, with manky beaks had already pounced on the naked and half naked bodies of young women, children,...
THE THING WITH INTERPRETERS (an essay by Oludipe Oyin Samuel)
[caption id="attachment_6568" align="aligncenter" width="453"] #WRRPoetryVerseSurgery[/caption] Many things are allowed in the ‘most contemporary’ Nigerian literature, even psycho-imaginative meningioma; proclaim the very art of purposeful nationalist writing— countryside lyricals, activist poems...
LET FATHER COME HOME by Oki Kehinde Julius
Tell father to come home Before Aso rock becomes a broken stones , His ageing voice we can't hear on phone Aisha is tired of sleeping inside the other room...
CHANGE by El Sane Ken Silencer
Ah! Men are wailing women are whooPing Children are crying no one is watching... Who is beating all? Recession! Father cried back when I talked broke... I wanted to meat...
OUR NATION, OUR PRIDE by Benjamin Anabaraonye
A land of unlimited opportunities Blessed with rare skills and talents A people industrious and diligent ...Our nation, our pride. A land of unbelievable riches Garnishing the earth with surplus...
RHETORICS OF THE TENSED by Oluwaseun Shedrack Akodu
That who shall hitherto save our paling green And save our scares of soul When would our boredom hood Turn-on our daylight dream Who shall saviour our twilight wolves,redeeming our...
POLITICALLY POLITICAL POLICIES by Kujembola Oluwaseun
This policy will be policed to be a politically political induction. Let me introduce myself, first. I am Comrade Ambassador NoWork ManChop; B.A, B.Ed, B.Sc, M.Sc, PhD, B.B.C, and of...
1967 by Ololade Akinlabi
(About Nigeria civil war and it consequences) Yesterday was lost along our memorial path, It was the day we lost without defeat; We killed our sons as roasted chickens, They...
END OF DISCUSSION by Samuel Amazing Ayoade
(Of a seven-year-old boy allegedly burnt to death by angry mob in Lagos-Nigeria in November, 2016; for allegedly stealing 'Garri'... Of Homosexuality, Of Poverty, Of Recession, Of Corruption) Heavy feet...