KAYEEFI by Yemi Osadiya
After KAYEEFI was born and bath Her veil was as tattered as a torn net Only a few friending shame vowed partnership. As time crept to welcome stages Her emergence...
MOREMI AJASORO by Ololade Akinlabi
Taking thoughts backward, Reminiscences of ancients; They are lost in memories Pieces left are hymns in holy papers Perhaps, discos are the better dance steps. Taking thoughts backward, Ancient archives...
BALOGUN by Samuel Amazing Ayoade
. Tell Are-Ona-Kakanfo that Balogun, the man of war is back from war. . Balogun, the son of seven thunders in the days of seven wonders kills the war and...
MOREMI by Samuel Amazing Ayoade
empty gourds of palmwine clanging at the palace gates though I have not seen a drunk King Akogun! We have lost the battle again where are the men of war?...
GATAN AREWA by Ken Mamman
Taka a hankali Most beautiful Yarinya yar north-side Sarautar ki is not what we see everyday Yours is in the zuciya They see you but can't look at you Your...
DANCE STEPS by Teslim Omipidan
Her hips swayed rhythmically to the tempo of the mystical Bàtá beaten with the hands of antiquity at the village square. Elders nodded in accordance, onlookers cheered in glee while...
ALMAJIRI: THE HAUSA MALE by Theophilus ‘Femi Alawonde
The very day that Audu was born, his father said, 'I will not raise a son!' So the day he became five years, he was sent out admist his sisters'...
A SONG OF COLOR by Efe Ogufere
I am the black, The humus deep within the earth, The life and succor to a dying seed The hope of a thousand souls that draw breath Melanin in tears...
AFRIKA THE SLEEPING GIANT by Ololade Akinlabi
Far from home..... Beyond the sea is where we reside Where shivering usher out Our glowing teeth not to smile But to beckon to the frigid weather Our complexion is...
BACK IN THIS PLACE by Samuel Amazing Ayoade
I’m back in this place where the moon rejoices at the hearing of melodious lullabies sung into the cranium of crying babies who are stuck to mother’s backs at the...