Gun are the days: Nostalgia, Disillusionment and Prosody of meaning in the current world Order.
Tunde Oloro
Gun are the days
Gun are the days
When time was straight like Orere
When living was a smoothbore barrel of a shotgun.
Gun are the days
when love was sweet with low sugar.
When Rats with their high-pitched squeaks
Squeal like Rats.
Gun are the days
When to love means to love what the love loves.
When birds sing and trill like birds
Gun are the days
When love was simple
When human produce prosodies of meaning.
Aare Onigedu
Kindly critique, eminent scholars.
Toyin Falola
Why deploy a gun, even in its sound, in a Merrie Africa story?
O tun kun
The gun sounds
To witness the birth of twins
No longer the drums and laughter!
There has never been such a land full of milk and honey---it is a mental construction of a romantic past that did not exist.
But Negritude must live on!
TF
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