Night bears the burden of our departure it wears and tears under the yoke of cold breaking its own silence with endless sighs of longing and neglect confusion calcifies in our bones leaving stories [...]
Apr 292012
Onyeka Dike
Apr 012012
The Background The story of Olaudah Equiano’s life is an admixture of variegated life experiences. It is a story of sorrow, punctuated with few moments of joy and happiness. Narrating the story of his [...]
Feb 152012
Valentine’s day. People say it means lovers’ day; a day specially set aside to show love. I wish I could say the same. To me, Valentine’s day actually means haters’ day. I will explain in [...]
Feb 122012
We would always know them as ‘those’ These very people who have their straws and hoses forever plugged to our nation’s rich wealth ‘those’ keeps them faraway; unreachable, unknowable forever lost in the web of [...]
Jan 262012
Up NEPA! Your darkness shines brighter than the sun at noonday it has life, form and being this darkness that can be touched any time a darkness that breathes and revels in our blindness darkness, [...]
Jan 192012
A man knows where he heads for the odour of his grave draws the curtain on his unnecessarily prolonged existence he heads for his grave but has to go through another forty-year wilderness journey [...]
Jan 042012
In this government Mr A will be in charge of education Mr B will be in charge of agriculture Mr C will be in charge of health Mr D will be in charge of transportation [...]
Dec 272011
I have been looking down through this window at the political gladiators and power-drunk money-bags sitting on the beggars’ plate miserable beggars begging for the can’t-do-withouts of life they build shelters of shame and [...]
Dec 152011
God It is coming again Your season of hunger when Your messengers will be sent to the ends of the earth to gather to your storehouse our yearly sweat we dance to drop our [...]
Dec 122011
I am a minister of the gospel I preach peace to the world At the end of every sermon the people willingly bring their offerings to my feet, the anointed apostle some brethren are [...]
Dec 082011
We cannot for doomed peace sit in our huts and watch our lands being taken taken by the animals in human clothing who delight in sucking the blood of our earth This land weak from [...]
Dec 072011
We committed our daughters to their own death! Then, when our daughters used to dwell in our poverty-infested shacks they were full of innocence the sun used to feel their fresh, firm breasts with nipples [...]
Dec 052011
If age was faithful to us and didn’t hinder our first course then we wouldn’t have built a fence but rather, a bridge If nature was kind to us and put us in good [...]
Dec 022011
…Then the brave died in their bravery And no one mourned them as much as they wished… Looking down on your grave we thought a star would be shining there that there would be [...]
Nov 302011
Ibadan, running splash of rust and gold — flung and scattered among the seven hills like broken china in the sun. (J.P. Clark) Ibadan, Clark’s description is not engraved on stone, unchangeable; for from [...]