PRISON S-21 (The Aljazeera Perspective) by Hannatu Adamu
About 17 thousand of us were taken Only seven of us survived The torture I was only a local mechanic But I was asked about my connections with the CIA...
THE CHARGES AGAINST ME by Michael Inioluwa Oladele
They sent me to prison They say I cover the sins of the righteous and reveal the truth of the liars; but am just a small boy called Silas putting...
LIFE IN A CELL by Christopher Titus
In this niche so to call But a cell Not even an inch to throw Or play a ball We fall and rise In this hell of guilt In this...
SELF-JAILED
[caption id="attachment_7632" align="aligncenter" width="360"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Self-Jailed][/caption]Marriage is imprisonment there are happy inmates to whom freedom is never a wish and the stressed mates who desperately seek an end to their...
SLAVERY
[caption id="attachment_4850" align="aligncenter" width="401"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Slavery][/caption]Born in the theatre of natural plenty Breast-fed and mid-wifed by capitalist selfishness A colonial and exploitative social formation We were told to close our...