“All God’s Chillun” by Edward Kamau Braithwaite is a poem that reflects the period of Indian indentureship as labourers on…
Gnawing the highway’ s edges, its black mouth Hums quietly: ‘Home, come home …’ Behind its viscous breath the very…
The starved eye devours the seascape for the morsel Of a sail. The horizon threads it infinitely. Action breeds frenzy.…
your lust seeps into me it forgets that I’m your child testes muddied in their needing excruciating pain in the…
A piece of my flesh torn away. A piece of my bone broken off. A piece of my soul remade.…
Rivers and mountains beyond the form seen:Hsiang-yang’s beauty brings them in reach, and Long-View has the highest peak around.Somehow I’d…
Cliffs that rise a thousand feetWithout a break,Lake that stretches a hundred milesWithout a wave,Sands that are white through all…
Oh when will autumn moon and spring flowers end?How many past events I’ve known.The east wind buffeted my room again…
Christopher Okigbo is apparently one of the Nigeria’s greatest poets. Born in 1932 in Ojoto, Eastern Nigeria, Okigbo studied Classics…
Coming and going these several seasons,Do stay out of the baobab tree,Follow where you please your kindred spirits If indoors…