Another 12-Year old has just been laid to rest with his mother wailings as the day before yesterday, he laid on her chest,
PLATEAU BLEEDS by Victor Igiri
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...
GARDEN by Ganiyu Mohi Adedare
War. Who again is climbing the walls of war after the death of soldiers? Who will show us how swords and guns turned the dusk to nightly behavior and erased...
AS WE LAY OUR HEADS TO REST by Bijimi Daniel Meindous
As we retire for the day The work of the day we have accomplished The god of the harvest had smiled on us Fruits of many kind filled our barns...
BENUE BESIEGED by Victor Igiri
Are we humans or Animals? Maybe both, but I may choose the latter for with drought eyes swollen from a marathon tears I wear, and thorned a flesh, can you...
WAR by Ganiyu Mohi Adedare
Red-Rider Who again is soaring the walls of war after the death of soldiers? Who will show us how swords and guns turned the dusk to nightly behavior and erased...
DIARY OF A SOLDIER AT WAR by Kujembola Oluwaseun
Yesterday, we remembered the victors and conquerors; Today, we remember the vanquished and conquered. Yesterday, we danced in the rain; Today, we embrace the cold. Yesterday, our echoes were of...
MARAUDERS by Christopher Labesa
...there is sadness in the face of the moon. Boom boom! Marauders at the door. Boom boom! Gory chunks on the floor. Marauders; those marauders;disgruntled fragments of the Sahara storms;...
AVENGERS: AN EYE FOR AN EYE
I look at the man screaming at my feet, my prisoner, grinning as he groans. You might wonder why he groans. He is simply in pain. I have just chopped...
RETURN OF THE HADES by Gideon Abowha
Blood in the eyes Brawny men occupying all sides Children cries Mothers being whipped Adversity made his way amidst Travails travelled down A lonely dark world Full of pains Where...