I can’t forget that wintry Sunday last July. It was the visit of mother’s big brother in Lagos, Uncle Okeke. Mother had told us for the umpteenth time how nice and kind-hearted Uncle Okeke was. Read More
Oct 262012
Onyeka Dike
Jun 242012
The rescue team has concluded its mission One hundred and forty-four bodies recovered the ones not found may fashion out their own graves in hell or make do with the comfort of feeling other Read More
Jun 062012
As I behold your ashen faces cast on this rubble that has become your visa to the world of the dead I sit still, stealing inexplicable glances at the tomorrow we all used to Read More
Apr 292012
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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, Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
Aug 302011
Ours is a protracted year of service… Parcelled and distributed, then abandoned in wretched areas of the earth the devil tempts us; tempts our innateness for survival just to prove our president’s boast Read More
Jul 172011
False princess you will not be reading new lines of feelings in this season of your folly-driven decision as to make you believe the hurt was so deep hence my venting venomous lines to herald Read More