My woman is no light skin
She doesn’t fall into the modern term for ‘beauty’
She is not the fair complexioned woman
Writers spent time painting with flowery adjectives
But when all the noises have been […]

Since they wouldn’t show us the way
Like the blind, we would walk gently
Avoiding the paths of the bellicose natives
Like the eagles circling an innocent chick
We would hover round and round the unfamiliar […]

In the yonder
Where we wander
We were inseparable
Mumble and humble
We did things in tandem
And never for once condemn.

We were called in love
And in other undecipherable sounds
Love called
Like […]

As some persons are happy

Going into the house of the lord,

I’m happy going into a classroom

Happy I would teach young minds

I paced to and fro like a King in his courtyard

Throwing and answering […]

That you are a woman isn’t a crime. You are not a pariah in anyway. Conventionally, it’s true that it’s men’s world. Men dominated every stratum of the sphere due to their doggedness and resilience.
However, […]

There are a lot of credible write-ups that have been lost to time. Not because they could not be gotten but because the language in which they were written are not fancied by the present generation of readers who […]

I can write in the language of the birds
But no, I wouldn’t
Birds are falling day by day
And when the last bird falls
No one would be able to read what I’d written
If they do
Their understandings be more of […]

She gave the tarred road some acrimonious punches in vengeance for drinking the precious blood of her only child. She yelled simultaneously on the earless road as if it could hear her and apologize for its […]

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Like many African mothers, Obianuju whose name changed to Mama Nneka, was very happy when her child, her world, Nneka decided to stay. She began to walk like many proud African mothers with her […]

“Nnamdi… Nnamdi! Come and see o.” Chika, a sturdily built young man called. Nnamdi walked out from where he sat with a group of friends to where Chika stood. He was obviously taller than Chika. Nnamdi’s body […]

When sonorous songs of birds woke me from sleep
And I saw mountains and valleys at a glance
All covered with healthy trees, shrubs and grasses
Glistening gracious greenish green
I said wow! Enugu is […]

We are back at where we set off
After circling round and round
Like an eagle preying over nothing.

We were the mad people
Who carried bags and baggage
Thinking they were going somewhere
Only to go […]

Employees are like the birds
Sooner or later, they will fly away!

Bird does not perch on a tree for long
It perches when the tree is good
Flies when problem comes
Onto another tree, and other trees
It […]

Even the dog can bark
And fishes sometimes murmur
But when you cannot say what you wanted to say
And had to agree to what was said
Know you are no different from the dead
Who are forced off by death.

Even […]

I was on my secondary school Facebook group some days ago, after I had commented on a picture, the guy that commented after me said “ha!!! Na this boy wey dey always speak big big oyinbo be this”.
I laughed after […]

Forgive father… Forgive
My flaws got me this time
Had I be as hallowed as Joseph
I would have run
Run faster than the hands of time
Swifter than my shadow could catch.

All I should have done went into […]