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Monday, 26 August 2013
BUARI
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Comets don your crests - dragon’s vomit! Fists of Herod, fists of Xerxes. You are yesterday’s May twenty-ninth, just before cun personified...
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DEAR GOODLUCK
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Worshipful stars heard Your reverence, your tongues For you missed our boat And you were not behind When you left and became god The deaf h...
Friday, 23 August 2013
BIDA
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Bida the Fulani tent, Dendo’s first test at cun - Jewel in the trough Fulani’s torch billows forth... The Etsu of heaven. Puppet from the...
Wednesday, 21 August 2013
HABIBI AND A DOZEN SMILES
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He peeps from the hole between his seat and the window, smiles at me, and then automatically expects a response. I touch the cape of my h...
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Wednesday, 3 July 2013
INSECURITY IN NIGERIA AND HOW I ALMOST BECAME A MILITANT!
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My life as a recent graduate, done with my national youth service year, and now waiting to get that dream job, can be tasking a bit. I’m...
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Friday, 28 June 2013
A PENNY FOR AN EYE
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It’s a wet, cold Friday afternoon for me in Abuja, but no matter what the weather is in Lagos, it won’t matter to young Samuel Adedigb...
Sunday, 16 June 2013
A Letter To My Father
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Dear Dad, I know you are doing very well. Lois Kolo loves the fact that she sees you more often now, not like those days when work to...
Monday, 20 May 2013
MY FIRST
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I had him between my legs It was my first, and it ached I laid helpless in throbbing pains At his mercy while he raged Grueso...
Saturday, 18 May 2013
SOCIAL WANTS AND THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
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“As every individual, therefore, endeavour as much as he can both to employ his capital in the support of domestic industry, and so ...
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
BABANGIDA'S WHITE ELEPHANT
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Babangida's white elephant The mammoth of lords Before the city gate After the town's skirt Where no distinct mark is ...
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