Tell it to the mountains // tell it out loud that the world might hear // Wax up the steep and rugged hills, journey the valleys and fountains // tell them! oh tell them now that they are near
BLAME IT ON THE MONEY by Emmiasky Ojex
Look at our daughters They now show no ill in laying with men old as their fathers Look at our sons Nothing is holding them back from scamming the green...
BENEATH MY DREARY PAST by Thaalith Abubakar Gimba
I brawl, through space and time Of my amorphous mind, Against my own demons; My formidable alter egos. I took not absolute dominion, Over the realm of my mind. Apparently...
TRUMP’S ‘SHITHOLE’ by Victor Igiri
Ours is a Landfull of Chameleons, Tigers and Hawks; a wild community of Vipers, and dicers who build us castles of snakes, with cancerous legacies, a trail to blaze by our...
KAINE AGARY’S ‘YELLOW- YELLOW’ CAPTURES NIGER DELTA ‘OIL POLITICS’ IN A WITTY, GRAPHIC MANNER WITH BITING SARCASM a review by Eugene Yakubu
TITLE: YELLOW- YELLOW AUTHOR: KAINE AGARY GENRE: PROSE FICTION NUMBER OF PAGES: 179 PUBLISHER: DTALKSHOP DATE OF PUBLICATION: 2017 ISBN: 9780708332 (10), 978-9780708337 (13) REVIEWER: Eugene Yakubu Kaine Agary's 'Yellow-...
BOYS OF SHATTERED DREAMS by Jonathan Otamere Endurance
after Adedayo Adeyemi Agarau’s “For boys who went' For Boys of Shattered Dreams... Their bones fragment on earth's closure Like the punctured walls of Borno — A preposition of dreams...
THE PAUPER’S SHOULDER by Hannatu Adamu
‘Tis the beginning; ‘tis the end I am a child; a pauper But the whole world is on my shoulder As I awake at dawn Having had little sleep, I...
LETS GO TO THE SLUMS by Ojembe Victor
Living below a dollar per day They wait for no pay Scavenging for their daily pay Waiting for merchant at their ugly bay After their routine sick hustle They...
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'...
SAVIOUR by Joshua Levites
I saw the little baby crying, At the end of the road. A group of saddened orphans That don't have where to go. It was a night before I saw...