Tell it to the mountains // tell it out loud that the world might hear // Wax up the steep and rugged hills, journey the valleys and fountains // tell them! oh tell them now that they are near
Tag: Poverty
BLAME IT ON THE MONEY by Emmiasky Ojex
Look at our daughters They now show no ill in laying with men old as their fathers Look at our sons Nothing is holding them back from scamming the green people with their bad brain and laptops Look at our mothers, fathers, the young men and alike; women, They now have no time for their… Continue reading BLAME IT ON THE MONEY by Emmiasky Ojex
BENEATH MY DREARY PAST by Thaalith Abubakar Gimba
I brawl, through space and time Of my amorphous mind, Against my own demons; My formidable alter egos. I took not absolute dominion, Over the realm of my mind. Apparently I’m shrouded, By an uncanny aura; I laud as fear. Alas, this particular vibe, Stirs unspeakable fright in me. And then my psychic conflict Finally… Continue reading BENEATH MY DREARY PAST by Thaalith Abubakar Gimba
TRUMP’S ‘SHITHOLE’ by Victor Igiri
Ours is a Landfull of Chameleons, Tigers and Hawks; a wild community of Vipers, and dicers who build us castles of snakes, with cancerous legacies, a trail to blaze by our generation. and as a people, ants, and sheep’s who shadows in red silence and eat pains as honeycomb. Ours is Golgotha a Realm for CRACKED… Continue reading TRUMP’S ‘SHITHOLE’ by Victor Igiri
KAINE AGARY’S ‘YELLOW- YELLOW’ CAPTURES NIGER DELTA ‘OIL POLITICS’ IN A WITTY, GRAPHIC MANNER WITH BITING SARCASM a review by Eugene Yakubu
TITLE: YELLOW- YELLOW AUTHOR: KAINE AGARY GENRE: PROSE FICTION NUMBER OF PAGES: 179 PUBLISHER: DTALKSHOP DATE OF PUBLICATION: 2017 ISBN: 9780708332 (10), 978-9780708337 (13) REVIEWER: Eugene Yakubu Kaine Agary’s ‘Yellow- Yellow’ is a simplistic and humorous narrative that opens up complex issues swirling around ‘oil politics’ in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. It is… Continue reading KAINE AGARY’S ‘YELLOW- YELLOW’ CAPTURES NIGER DELTA ‘OIL POLITICS’ IN A WITTY, GRAPHIC MANNER WITH BITING SARCASM a review by Eugene Yakubu
BOYS OF SHATTERED DREAMS by Jonathan Otamere Endurance
after Adedayo Adeyemi Agarau’s “For boys who went’ For Boys of Shattered Dreams… Their bones fragment on earth’s closure Like the punctured walls of Borno — A preposition of dreams and death Binding the encrimson of dirges Searching home on their lips Like an owl finding haven in the burning Shadows of a sun god.… Continue reading BOYS OF SHATTERED DREAMS by Jonathan Otamere Endurance
THE PAUPER’S SHOULDER by Hannatu Adamu
‘Tis the beginning; ‘tis the end I am a child; a pauper But the whole world is on my shoulder As I awake at dawn Having had little sleep, I begin to yawn My body is already aching, anticipating the day’s ordeals Ignoring the summons of my empty stomach I hold on to our simple… Continue reading THE PAUPER’S SHOULDER by Hannatu Adamu
LETS GO TO THE SLUMS by Ojembe Victor
Living below a dollar per day They wait for no pay Scavenging for their daily pay Waiting for merchant at their ugly bay After their routine sick hustle They sit in clusters at the gate Sipping in dry spirit Slums beaming with false life The scent of Akara Dancing in their brains Drowning every… Continue reading LETS GO TO THE SLUMS by Ojembe Victor
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
SAVIOUR by Joshua Levites
I saw the little baby crying, At the end of the road. A group of saddened orphans That don’t have where to go. It was a night before I saw you with the Lady, Whose skirt barely covered her thighs. You two were standing beside a poor girl Who pleads with her cries, “Please be… Continue reading SAVIOUR by Joshua Levites