A poem: The Industrialist

[Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth]

Poem;  The Industrialist*

By Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth

Lomg ago

In 

Jalingo

I Drank tea

 and ate 

Toast bread

And the  Tea

Boosted my

Brain

Such That I began to think

Not about    drinking Tea  

or taking toast

But about making  things

I became an Industrialist

Thats me!

An Industrialist!

*

*   Some historians are of the opinion

That the industrial revolution was 

fuelled by Tea drinking. because  Tea drinking

requires boiled water,and as such the people of Britain

Freed themselves from contaminated water by reason of

              their passion for tea with the result that they lived longer 

and became innovative and industrious.. Another version reported  in the  new scientist of october 25 2022, affirms that it might have been propelled by drought!

Chief Olusegun Obasanjo a famous farmer  who it was told the world that Taraba state

Of which  jalingo is capital has got a good climate for TEA cultivation