TILL TOMOROW DIES by Ololade Akinlabi
Our long awaited table refuses to turn, In starvation we rejoice in impoverishment we smile, smile our tinted teeth-a slogan for poverty. Hope, no longer in our anthem Children,recite dirge...
WHAT A COUNTRY! by Nnamdi Amasiatu
What a country? After many years of perpetual suffering We breathed sighs of relief The eras of the vicious men are gone The eras of rampant looting of the nation's...
OKIGBO SENT WORDS by Samuel Amazing Ayoade
Okigbo sent words to your majesty From the royal clan of Igbo Kwenu of the world yonder We seek change and not amnesty I, Okigbo sent these words. Concentration leaks...
ALMAJIRI’S LOGO by Abdulbasit Abubakar Adamu
Palms outstretched That's the Almajiri's logo Like a bird in dismay You see him here and there Looking for alms or a fair food to feed on and clothes to...
OUR LEAD-ASS by Amore David Olamide
We are a sea drifting like hurricane wavy enough to storm the city for the ache... for the melancholy of political jiggery-pokery and dubious cherished etiquette of leader's dishonesty... we...
POVERTY by Ololade Akinlabi
Yesterday was a dream Today is reality Tomorrow is a drab vision Our territory can no longer hold Our households dance in penniless dance, backward, towards the red moses sea....
EKOSODIN by Efe Ogufere
Along the rivers of red earth A child weeps and pulls at her hair Listen closely, hear the echo of footfalls The rhythm as they rise and fall. A thousand...
PETTY-ROLL by Oki Kehinde Julius
hungry kegs goes unfilled at a fast food where pump splashes fluid. barrel starved to fast the length of ramadan after jew's wednesday had been burnt into ashes. . angry...
CHANGE OR CHAINS? by Okeme Jerome Akpevwe
What did you hear When they mounted the stage of yesterday To declare their promises on air? Was it change or chains? Maybe the lies of yesteryears Have deposited wax...
CHANGE HAS COME by Sunsampaul Egwu
¶ Now that change has come. I'll sail through the deadly moon of our ancestors, to appease the gods of the forest. So our sisters will return to us not...