IMAGE MAKER -BY BADA YUSUFF AMOO

We paint holy pages
With songs of war
To liberate falling consciousness
From the tyrant of a bleeding pen
Who we build nation on its tail

Somewhere behind reality
Mouths gagged with bereavements
Arranging the masses notes
In the warple western wallets
And cloak our thunder in a panic

We promised to celebrate victory
Face ultimate test of devotion
Accept all unidentified labels
The commandants of all battlements
All violence. The fences continue falling

At the shore of obscurity
The exile beacons our rising
Trying to split bitterness
On the rejecting rock
Who steps out of our mirror

Truly, we much withhold the Aristotle
Maxism theory, the Karl Marx…
Foul absoluteness on dynamic cloud
And caress each others’ back
With thorn fingers sometimes

The Smiths move toward a place
The corners of Ninety Eighty Four
Vision searing our flesh
The clown colony of poverty
And forget the herald of Maiduguri’s fallings

The odour of emotional stabs
And the rattling of exile
Fling open our defeat
Inflates the price of water
And darkness soon will return

Against our defeated bones
Our eyes turn tragic, capsizing
The sky loses its denouncement
Rain turns harmattan in broken calendar
Without dust to wear us solar suits

Our defeat is vertical
The compellation of bitter boundary
That distances our dreams and fairness
The equators do not adjust their steps
Having no need to sole our injuries

Our advocacy silence in derision
Some advocates in corners to cohabit
Like north and south at Dasuki gate
And others in another place
Memorizing the stanzas of exile

  

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Is the English Language a Curse or Blessing to Nigeria? by Olaniyi Abdulwaheed

Image
English the language of the colonial masters in Nigeria. Colonial masters bequeathed English to Nigeria as part of the ways of making Nigerians adopt their culture. Since language is part of the culture and culture is part of the language, Nigerians overwhelmingly adopted British culture and viewed it as the best gaze in the mirror. The prestige attached to British culture cannot be confiscated in English, the British language. However, many scholars with different opinions have argued on the existence of the English Language, whether it is a curse or blessing for the country. Some argued that, embracing English language is a curse to Nigeria, whereas some believe that it a force of blessing for the nation.  The growth of the English language in Nigeria can be traced to the heterogeneous nature of Nigerian society. Nigeria is a country with many languages with at least of about 400 languages. Most of these languages are not mutually intelligible, that is, speakers of one langua
Read more

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

A CRITICAL REVIEW OF A PLAY TITLED “ARMattan of VENOM” BY OLANIYI ABDULWAHEED

Playwright : Gege Baseran Title of the book : ARMattan of VENOM  (KOMMEDY of the Other ) Genre : Play Reviewed by : Olaniyi Abdulwaheed ………………………………………………………………………………………………….. It may not take an ordinary man to wipe the tears of a suffering land. The land that is full of chaos is not always friendly with orderliness. While some are working towards progress, many are blocking the estuaries to the sea of social development. In the land, people bargain their conscience with personal gain. People whose responsibility is to look after the social well being of the people, serve as the doctors to societal hills, are even the patients to be treated at the ward of the universe. Oftentimes, it is so painful to be in the harsh condition of social weather; when there should be breeze, it gives heat; when rain is required, it gives Harmattan, so everyone in the society shivers in the boulevard of penury and chaos. In this sense, Gege Baseran travels to the world of sage
Read more