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Nigerian Poems
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THE ROAD HOME, A POEM BY ABDULSALAM ADEIZA SADIQ
This is a poem that journeys home along Nigerian roads.
WHY A STRONG BLACK WOMAN? A POEM BY HILLARY NICOLE VAN ROOI
The strength of black women of all walks of life often go unnoticed. They aren't famous and don't have the power, money or influence to get the recognition they deserve. Yet so much can be said about these everyday 'sheroes'...
GROWING YOUR OWN DEATH, A POEM BY GIFT EMMANUEL OLALEYE
Growing your own death is a poem that seemingly flood lights on our health and how we ignore our body.
THRENODY: YOUR DEATH GULP ME EMPTY
My tears are this poem rolling into gratitude: carving out strong boys who never cries nor succumbed to life's protracted misfortune when their father had gone to meet with Eve's daughter...
SIGHT OF YOUR UNWITTING LOVE
This poem explore the phenomenal of love. it resonate with the voice of the speaker who has fallen in this theme.
ECHOES ACROSS THE ATLANTIC
Anyone who does not have a history, remember his history and is too quick to forget from where he/she is coming from, such a person is bound to experience life in an unhistorical way; be it nations of the world or a state in the comity of nations. Africans have been acting like ones who don't know her history.
POETRY: A PANACEA FOR POETS, A POEM BY EXCEL CHINAGOROM MICHAEL
This poem resonate the grandness of poesy from the evaluation of a poet who stir evidently at problem, biting in between the arteries and vein without repairs until he found solacement from poetry written by another poets.
AT THE ALTAR OF BAPTISMAL NAME
Historically, the arrival of the white missionaries and their Churches in which the natives are mandated to be baptised and change their names is another way our history as a people is mired in the altar of evil as our people sees baptismal names as the good and not repentance of the heart.
IF SEX IS SIN
All is vain except love and coitus is the culmination of it...
SAY NO TO RAPE, A POEM BY ALHASSAN MARYAM
"say no to rape" is a poem expressing the trauma and hurt a girl went through after her rape experience.