“Oh God, not again”, I said with a loud voice. “What’s that? My wife asked curiously from our bedroom doorway. “Can’t you see the light is gone and I was watching an interesting program on Read More
May 242013
poverty
Mar 052013
Life has taught me nothing But poverty has taught me something That to live in great lack Is to lack a great life Toiling heavily day and night I’ve tried hard to make things just Read More
Feb 172013
(I did this review as an academic exercise a while back, and I’d love to share it because I think it is relevant to today’s Nigeria.) The words on the cover page tug at the Read More
Jan 232013
Always in limbo hanging between us and them We have lost our voices just like our fathers Through the thin they passed having nothing for us their journeys or even having a path for us Read More
Jan 162013
A romance with poverty is an intriguing and debilitating experience. It’s a romance that could either generate the humorous or bring one to a vegetative state. I’m talking about material poverty, inability to survive on Read More
Sep 072012
In my country blessings abound like a flowing stream With crude oil and gold, granite and coal, our soil is teem Running through all roots to fulfil the African dream Luminescent gifts that would have Read More
Sep 042012
– August 2012 – In the street There is no pause To the questing souls Rainbow chasing riots Must locate The pots of gold Must find, must find The great golden hammer Read More
Aug 272012
In this city, Where bricks and glass Poke their fingers Into the eyes of the sun, One roams- Dog with no kennel. In this city, Where bins beg, Seeking to be emptied Of fleshy bones, Read More
Aug 112012
Friend, have you heard Of that city of sheep, Whose bloated shepherds Walk not on two legs? Listen, friend, listen. I’ll tell you of abominations That these eyes of mine Did there behold. There, Read More
May 272012
Nigeria is a land of hypocrisy. The tragedy does not end there. Her people are so used to hypocrisy that they cannot face truth, so they remain un-free. There is hypocrisy in the home, church, Read More
Dec 312011
“Mfon, get up! The pastor would soon be here.” My mother gently shook me awake. I dreaded the visit of the pastor for whatever reason and could never be enthusiastic even for my mother’s sake. Read More
Nov 292011
I arrived home rather late this evening Only a few itinerant folks are on the streets But just one voice, one language is spoken It is the conversation of the generators Dim lights escapes Read More
Nov 132011
Tenants fight daily in face me I face you, morning bathes children naked in front of the house with cold water the wriggling child knows no complains forever he lived in poverty, he stares at Read More
Nov 072011
Pain Oh the pain…. Have you felt pain? The horrible, terrible kind that drives mad your psyche swerving it to the lane of death infusing it with the sombre belief that suicide will be Read More
Nov 012011
Outstretched Stunted These hands Beg for mercy. Sympathy Liberty The parched cries Of a suffering mouth. Struggling with hunger His belly tears asunder Little wars in different sections Pinching, biting, making pain. Read More
Sep 302011
I saw a man who Sits close to that conflagration of death, Where the nerve cells at the epicenter of his naval cavity have been incapacitated. His moist nose unaware of the dump land, A Read More
Jun 082011
I had managed to get myself back to my hostel room. My mind still in division, I was puzzled or should I say that the whole thing got me so weakened? I dropped myself like Read More
Feb 242011
Its assembly time again and my heart is filled with trepidation my heart thumps against my chest my palms are sweaty so I wipe them across my torn vest. Tears wet my eyes as the Read More
Feb 072011
Decked out in all my finery, slightly intoxicated by the heady smell of fried goat meat, I was swaying gently in my white plastic chair to that ancient yet contemporary beat of the African talking Read More