That there’s no danger, that the word stays intact outside the person, by their side. That there’s no need to confuse one person with another, either one’s a social being – or a brute, the rest will leave the stage, it was a long night devoid of dragonflies and clouds, black – the other person,…
CAST Kwame Nkrumah – ex-president of Ghana Ahmed Sedou TOure – President of Guinea Republic Amilcar Cabral – Leader of PAIGE Andree TOure – Wife of President TOure Fode Keita – Artist now Guinea Minister of inferior Nyamikeh – Nephew on the material side to Nkrumah Ambrose Yankey – Chief of the Ghanian security guards…
Surprising how feelings depend on blood pressure. Electricity in my body prevents me from staying put. And, still, I force myself not to move. Fingers are nervously running across the keyboard. Then the uneven verses turn into day dreams. Your text messages follow me in my steps. I do not wish to keep silent, but…
I am like a slip of comet, Scarce worth discovery, in some corner seen Bridging the slender difference of two stars, Come out of space, or suddenly engender’d By heady elements, for no man knows; But when she sights the sun she grows and sizes And spins her skirts out, while her central star Shakes…
This cigarette butt This little bit of ground coffee This cherry yogurt These few grains of salt This fistful These chamomile flowers These grains of rice This ration of semolina pasta These two fingers of olive oil This piece of old bread This chunk of parmesan cheese That rose in the waters of the Aniene…
Adinoyi Ojo Onukaba’s The Killing Swamp, composed principally of four characters, is obviously a play of one act. The Killing Swamp was first published in the year 2009 and in course of dramatizing The Killing Swamp, Adinoyi Ojo Onukaba avers in the author’s note that “the play should run seamlessly from the beginning to the…
I approach, and I withdraw:who but I could findabsence in the eyes,presence in what’s far? From the scorn of Phyllis,now, alas, I must depart.One is indeed unhappywho misses even scorn! So caring is my lovethat my present distressminds hard-heartedness lessthan the thought of its loss. Leaving, I lose morethan what is merely mine:in Phyllis, never…
Background of the poet Christopher Okigbo is apparently one of the Nigeria’s greatest poets. Born in 1932 in Ojoto, Eastern Nigeria, Okigbo studied Classics at the University College. He had written several poems including The Star Have Departed, Newcormer, Watermaid, Love Apart and For He Was a Shrub Among The Poplars. Watermaid by Christopher Okigbo Bright with…
BACKGROUND OF THE POET Wole Soyinka was born in 1934 at Abeokuta, Western Nigeria. Educated in Nigeria in University College, Ibadan, and at Leeds University in England, he graduated in English Language and Literature in 1958. Wole Soyinka is a versatile person and sings, and acts and produces plays. In addition he is a creative…
Born in 1906 at Joal in Senegal, of the Serere tribe, Senghor has had a distinguished career as a scholar, philosopher and politician. Educated in Senegal and France, he was the first West African to graduate at the Sorborne in Paris. He has taken a prominent part in the cultural and political development of his…