Tag: <span>Nigeria</span>

THE LENIENT POEM AND SUBTLE MEANING (an analysis by Oludipe Oyin Samuel)

Staff WriterJuly 27, 2020September 16, 2020

A Big Airplane Crashed Into the Earth. I read Soyinka’s first collection of prison poems sometime in 2009. Categorically, I need not ‘push dumbfoundment to beg simplification; I hate a...

OUR LORD IS FRANCOPHONE (a poem by Omotayo Awoyemi)

Omotayo AwoyemiJune 18, 2019August 3, 2020

Our lord has ears, and he hears whispers of the bourgeoisie in his right, and wailings of the abject masses in his left; whose stapes is Apollyon.

ESSAYS

WE SHOULD ALL BE WRITERS: FACEBOOK WRITERS’ PHENOMENON

John Chizoba VincentNovember 24, 2018August 3, 2020

In many cities of the world, especially the under developing countries, writers have been subject of abuse, neglect, exploitation and even in extreme cases murdered by evil critics who don't...

ESSAYS

TRANSFORMING NIGERIA AND ITS POLITY: THE LAW AS AN EFFECTIVE TOOL, an essay by Adedimeji Quayyim Abdul-Hafeez

Adedimeji Quayyim Abdul-HafeezOctober 28, 2018August 3, 2020

The major aim of any organized society is the preservation of peace and order. From time immemorial, when anarchy, chaos, confusion and disorder had been the order of the day,...

POETRY

ONCE UPON A TIME by Uchenna Odukwu

Uchenna OdukwuOctober 18, 2018November 15, 2018

Once upon a time In a country I call mine There rose a broom party Fed by change clothed sympathy An entity of old wine in a new skin...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST 2018 [SEPTEMBER] ‘NIGERIA 2019: OF THUMBS & PVCs’

Staff WriterSeptember 20, 2018August 3, 2020

Words Rhymes & Rhythm Publishers invites poets from Nigeria to enter their poems for the September 2018 edition of the BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST (BPPC). This month’s theme is: 'NIGERIA 2019:...

POETRY

PLATEAU BLEEDS by Victor Igiri

Victor IgiriAugust 19, 2018October 9, 2018

Throw JOS some black lit candles. Again we write more chapters in our 'book of bloods' with the narratives, an heritage for distant tongues to tell whose skins are unpeeled...

POETRY

M.K.O ABIOLA by Victor Igiri

Victor IgiriAugust 9, 2018October 9, 2018

(…a tribute in respect of the honour conferred on him by President Muhammadu Buhari) Kashimawo, "Let us wait and see" so They said but Heroes don't die, No. They are...

POETRY

CHANGE THESE CHAINS by Victor Igiri)

Victor IgiriJune 1, 2018

Yesterday was Theirs they bemoaned Guma's...fall Today, ours we tell of Mbalom's... unripe pause; and Tomorrow, sure, shall be history's reawakening in Mama's four forks for ours is a land...

POETRY

TWO-FACED “IGP” by Victor Igiri

Victor IgiriMay 25, 2018May 25, 2018

doctored or un-doctored, black or white, he is only human for though the sun kings today, tomorrow shall be the moon's. lies or truths; we deserve some white words so...

Tag: Nigeria

THE LENIENT POEM AND SUBTLE MEANING (an analysis by Oludipe Oyin Samuel)

OUR LORD IS FRANCOPHONE (a poem by Omotayo Awoyemi)

WE SHOULD ALL BE WRITERS: FACEBOOK WRITERS’ PHENOMENON

TRANSFORMING NIGERIA AND ITS POLITY: THE LAW AS AN EFFECTIVE TOOL, an essay by Adedimeji Quayyim Abdul-Hafeez

ONCE UPON A TIME by Uchenna Odukwu

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST 2018 [SEPTEMBER] ‘NIGERIA 2019: OF THUMBS & PVCs’

PLATEAU BLEEDS by Victor Igiri

M.K.O ABIOLA by Victor Igiri

CHANGE THESE CHAINS by Victor Igiri)

TWO-FACED “IGP” by Victor Igiri

CỌ́N-SCÌÒ MAGAZINE: ‘PARRHESIA’ [ISSUE 4, VOL. 1 | JUN, 2024]

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