Blessed are those who struggle!
Cornelius Hamelberg
It's not meant to be poetry
far from it
the lines are only organised
this way to make it much easier
to read and catch meaning
I almost wrote
“The lies are only organised
this way to make it much easier
to read and catch meaning”
“Blessed are those who struggle!”
Long live Mia Mottley the current Prime Minister of Barbados !
Redolent of Fela Kuti’s epiphany,
just as The Last Poets bray
no doubt, so some of you who pray
to your father who is in heaven
will catch it all on Al Jazeera :
“When the revolution comes some of us will probably catch it on TV
With chicken hanging from our mouths ”
My mother, “seismic with laughter” etc
It’s not the name of a new cloud pregnant with rain
and with meaning
hanging
over the political landscape
like that damn cliché sword of Damocles:
Yes, you heard that right 👍
Play-cook democracy
Who the cap fit let him wear it
There are other ominous clouds like this
clouding the firmament
first the avoidable
“Nigeria will burn”
spontaneous combustion
hard vs hard,
fire on fire
fuel fire
compounded by
fusiliers’ fusil fire
never a good idea
the first African novel I ever read
when I was about thirteen:
and now what say those who have
all that Achebe and Adichie
under their belts, still chirping about Biafra
as if “History Will Teach Us Nothing”
Igbos on the run again in Lagos State
But you don’t have to worry too much
God will take care of Nigeria
Yesterday, via Zoom, I attended the funeral service of my cousin Balogun’s wife, Mrs Elfrida Cornilia Taiwo Tagoe - in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The Zoom event went on for six hours. Small world. She started her education , attending primary school in Kaduna, Northern Nigeria and served the country as a school teacher for over three decades…