JUST GIVE HER THIS QUOTE

                      

                                     “Don’t forget the last hour
                          When the moon shined to our gloomy eyes
                          It may not end in vain, remember
                          I’m in your vein.”





Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The origin of African Drama and Theatre with Salient Elements from Selected Plays by Olaniyi Abdulwaheed

African drama and theatre started to emerge in Africa continent when British came to make their affairs of life imposed on Africans. They came with ideas; religion, education, business transaction, making Africa a raw material place where their solid land was built up by it. Through this, African lifestyle changed and wore another garment because of the predicament at the advent of British. Though Africans had their normal dramatization (in form of folklore), their experiences for the coming of British always feature in the African drama and theatre that was inherited from Europeans. The origin of African drama and theatre based on traditional, history, and contemporary dramatic forms in Africa which range from sacred or ritual performances to dramatized storytelling, literary drama, or modern fusion of scripted theatre with traditional performance techniques. The diversity in performances is as a result of massive spread of cultures and traditions in each country. A lot of t...
Read more

ORPHAN POEM- BY BADA YUSUFF AMOO

I was told, you are the termite Feeding on the tree at the backyard I was told, you are the goat That feed on the remnants of yam at backyard I was told you are the hawker That sells beans-cake in my dreams at night I was told you are the traveler That lost in borderless desert I was told, you are the ant that sway That I see on my way to the farm On each sunrise of the day That whispers my ear aubade poem  I was told you have gone far That I cannot even trace your path I was told you hid my face within your chest, mother Before life showed your way to death Can you still tell me the miseries in nature? And the affairs of life itself How can I tell my children in future? How lone I have been in this forest of life I was told this is where you scribed some miseries By the veranda of your grave That I could invoke some dramas of your memories As my mouth fans those moments of the life you gave They said your spirit breathes around me...
Read more

A REVIEW OF DENJA ABDULLAH’S PLAY DEATH AND THE KING’S GREY HAIR - By Olaniyi Abdulwaheed

Image
In every society, there must be a leader. A leader who is ready to refurbish the land, lead by example and abides by the laws of the society. A leader who is respected by his subjects is the one that serves the nation relentlessly and bends for the rule of law. The law of every society defines its power, culture and tradition. The uniqueness of a tradition in a particular nation is reserved in the constitution and how the people of the state respect the rule of law. When the power of a nation is given to a particular person to maintain orderliness, peace and harmony reigns if the ruler or king obeys political culture. Leaders must lead by example lest things fall apart. The play Death and the King’s Grey Hair centres around the ancestral culture of the people of Shakaga village. According to their unwritten constitution , a king rules for a short period of time, it is a taboo for him to live with signs of ageing,.The village only witnesses young kings and short reigns. The law ...
Read more