Today, we have seen numerous death of young promising writers by suicide. Exactly last year, we lost the talented Chukwuemeka Akachi, whose death spreads like a sandstorm. The same year, an online literary blog published the name of five young students writers who died by suicide.
ON NIGERIAN WRITERS, DEPRESSION & SUICIDE…
In reality, many people discover writing after suffering some physical or psychological discomfort that they want to talk about. Perhaps due to their social circumstances, these people cannot find a voice loud enough to reach the audience they want, or they do not even think anyone is willing to listen or able to hear them. Then they discover writing.
CHUKWUEMEKA AKACHI: AN AFRICAN KNOWS NO DEPRESSION – (COMMENTARY BY OPPONG CLIFFORD BENJAMIN)
So the brilliant and successful Nigerian writer, Chukwuemeka Akachi died in suicide and I am not moaning. Akachi had nothing in life to trade for life. He was only waiting...
WHY OLAMI-UCHE COMMITTED SUICIDE IN ABUJA
When Olami-Uche left his home on that fateful Thursday morning, his wallet had exactly one thousand, seven hundred and twenty naira in it. It was everything he had in the...
KPOHACHIM: by Stefn Sylvester Anyatonwu
Do not cry? Did you really say I shouldn't cry? Twas just yesterday I saw her last. Full of life, Full of smiles. Twas last night I bade her 'Goodnight'...
A MAN AND HIMSELF
if a man should go out looking for himself would he search inside the kitchen shelf inside a frothy bottle robbed of its waters or in the pockets of his...
BROKEN (a triolet)
[caption id="attachment_8868" align="aligncenter" width="395"] www.facebok.com/WRRPoetry [Broken][/caption]She took death pills while counting her curses. A brutal husband and a barren womb... Her disconsolate heart, grave grief, nurses. She took death pills....
SUICIDE NOTE
[caption id="attachment_5391" align="aligncenter" width="303"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Suicide Note][/caption]To live is, To die, not That kind of death, but The kind of death like Blindness, where The mind sees more Than the...
BEGGAR WITHOUT CHOICE
[caption id="attachment_4740" align="aligncenter" width="436"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Beggar Without Choice][/caption]You; Sweet as the rose, Fair as the lily, Slender like the sugar cane stalk, Voice like the robin's, Crowned like the palm…...
WILD WILD WEST
[caption id="attachment_4598" align="aligncenter" width="383"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Wild Wild West][/caption]Jump off the cliff let the earth bury you Draw back, take a dive Make a widow of your wife Aren't you from...