if you beat the drums of war hard something about you moves the motion moves your body to sweat, and your palm begins to blister. it is you enjoying the rhythm that others are dancing to. tell the others who so seek the sweet in honey that there’s sting in the bee it’s the pain […]

I have washed my hands with the permission of the elders, and libations to gods of our land. I beg to differ on Mazi’s comparison. the death of an elderly man is not always a burning library. sometimes, it is a written book that has no letters, words, clauses, sentences, paragraphs, pages or chapters worthy […]

The tortoise may fall down from an Iroko tree But a wise snail will climb down. Life is a pair of shoes We wear together, Feel the pain But the toe that hurts May not be the same It is the change we feel that tells The kind of shells We wear. Tochi

the count begins from one man to another man, until a group of men. this group forms another group and a city is crowded by them. one by one a lineage expands in a mix of culture, intermarriages, and there are tribes, kins and heirs scattered across earth as a specie, a population. leonell echa

in his own image, he created them male and female, he created them every one with his own uniqueness we can’t judge a woman by a man’s strength or judge a man by his inability to carry a child for nine months. women are breadwinners, men are homemakers cooking, caring for their ward. it is […]

when i woke today, i wasn’t awake enough my legs of their own accord were dancing to the rhythm in my stomach i thought that i would die but everyday i wake up feeling like that the sky has been kind to the earth but the earth won’t allow my belly a thing it is […]

there’s no absolution for the fire in hell, it looks not for ice nor the way your conscience finds sleep. you raise your words higher than your voice the way your anger rises above your hand the hands, a trigger to the many guns that be becoming water that drowns many fishes. a child whose […]

Dear Teen Girl, The one Who called you Baby, Is still a boy. The one who said You to give him your heart Just stopped playing with a toy. The one who called you honey, Haven’t been stung by a bee before. The kiss and romance you see in movies Would make you want to […]

Every time we raise swords, we cut part of our humanity. Believing in one’s belief should not be a reason to live in doom. If this is how it will always be, why not question the questions and question the answers? why is skin colour a threat? How does one submit himself to a cause, […]

The green fields have become a rotten brown Brutes in boots have put a stamp on them The fatherland was the only plan Now the down and trodden are opting for another The truth can only earn you a seat in jail Bills, bills, billing everywhere The ears of the constituents are never satisfied A […]