The Boy from Africa and other poems  by Oliver Sopulu Odo, is a chapbook containing 24 poems that focuses on the spirit of Africa, the Afri...

Photo by Chris Dubem The poem is an easy comprehensible piece, made up of three nailed stanza, with a unifying theme. It's the shor...

In us You gave it all By us we lost it all. We rejected the blame Putting Your efforts to shame. In full force the gate of hell let ...

              Hello! Backfriend the sweet atter You have been giving to me is My life support to live longer I want you to know that...

Image Credit: Pinterest I wrote this poem in the year 2017. It was dedicated to a very good friend of mine, Felicitas Irue. She is a ...

This poem was written by I in the year 2019. It has originally been published by  Think Life  on April 20, 2019. Copyright of this work i...

Romeo Oriogun Romeo Oriogun is a 21 century Nigerian Poets. His poems have appeared in  Praxis, Afridiaspora,   African Writer ,   Bri...

Niyi Osundare Niyi Osundare (born 1947 in Ikere-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria) is a prolific poet, dramatist and literary critic. He gai...

Image via Foluke Ifejola They too are the earth The swansongs of beggars sprawled out The brimming gutters They are the earth ...

E get one dream Wey dey worry me I don dream am tire, If I sleep small Na di dream go come If I close eye small Na di dream go come I...

Before you, mother Idoto,          naked I stand, before your watery presence,           a prodigal, leaning on an oilbean; lost in...

Cover page  This sunken-eyed moment wobbling down the rocky steepness on broken bones slowly fearfully to hideous concourse of gath...

Abiku is a Yoruba word that can be translated as "predestined to death". It is from (abi) "that which possesses" and (ik...

Image | Casualties THE CASUALTIES . to Chinua Achebe. The casualties are not only those who are dead. They are well out of it. T...

Western College Western College! A college of gratitude, A school of good aptitude Were students strives to attain a goal. A goal of...