In the eloquent water of the River Between Minnows argue the terror of the shark Rifted mountains hold hands Across a vast and breathless silence A soil unspeakably rich: Red-rooted …
Edem Ossai was “troubled by the alarming number of children hawking goods on the streets”. But she didn’t stop at that. She progressed from alarm to dream: ‘I thought …
LET the sun break out today From the bluest corner of its sky Let houses throw open their doors To the street and its endless banters Let the lion retract …
*Military action in Niger may only end up complicating the Nigerien fiasco. Remember: a little fire often spirals into an uncontrollable blaze ‘Right now, the Nigerian people have more than …
…Parables from our recent polls I The journey from hate to holocaust is perilously short. . . .* In the national ballot just concluded: Many voted their tribe Many, their tongueMany …
• Everyday Of The Year Is World Poetry Day (Being text of Acceptance Speech for the 5th Baoa International Poetry Outstanding Achievement Award, Shanghai, China; slightly modified here for the …
‘Clan over competence, tribe above truth/Square pegs in round holes/And the Nation grabs the reverse gear/And speeds, break-neck, into medieval darkness‘ 1 Pepeye, nigba too m’oweKi lo be l’udo se? Incompetence …
1 I spent this year’s Christmas At a petro stationSome two miles from my NEPA-less* home And immeasurable distance from sanity The manger was dark When the Wise Men arrivedPious Joseph had no fuel To power …
When words paddle their way from English to Korean. Bridge across the Seas, a line chosen from one of the translated poems, which serves as the English title of this …
HERE, in plain, unsubsidized language Are the basic facts About the fabled Nigerian “subsidy” Whose endless lies have besieged our ears We the Nigerian people subsidize The rampant CORRUPTION of our …
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