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-This is Nigeria, Where Cattle’s fly their terrorism flag, Stumping on humtydumpty green white green. -This is Nigeria Where corrupt QWERTY and busy ******   Puts food on the table of unemployed youths. -This is Nigeria Where clerics find paradise on earth Lo!  followers live as church rats withal. -This is Nigeria Where Eve plotted against a serpent   Hm! Mrs Philomena and her fairytale animal. -This is Nigeria Where Sundays are full of bibles and Qurans, Yet her body stinks in poo of immorality. -This is Nigeria Where the mace is a mess in her house As senators sleeps and vacate seats in a hearing. -This is Nigeria Where in Nigeria We are looking for Nigeria.
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May 27, 2018
May 27, 2018 at 10:46 AM UTC
THIS IS NIGERIA!!!
This day, the grand commander refused the opened door of the corridor that exhumes National odour, The iconic gallant lamented “good harvest is impossible with rats in the rock’ The Grand commander is right, isn’t he? Giant rats with two legs and ***** claws caused us wounds yet to close up, The pig fight they played us in tough dirt let the Atlantic be a stain remover yet it won’t cleanse us Let us take the hands of the Clock to dance the moon walk, You see these rats are black flames in a dark room, An illumination of appetitive explosion Oh Clock, the thorns on your feet, can you see? That the rich green land broke your rich green  blood, Wait, can’t you smell a dead rat? The beautiful rat who at a time was the pilot of the crafts who went so far to bury legality in a pit latrine, I guess, it smells too nice. I am sorry oh Clock, I know you hate the moon walk, I see they make your old wounds open to new grief Should rats hunt rats for if rats hunt rats then who pants? Twenty shekels of silver awaits you in twenty’ 20 Take it and let the times get sweaty ***** Oh Clock! Your prophecy talks in time Should I seek vengeance from the grey sky? Should the thunderstorm strike and the gullible grey hair die Rats of bungalow minds in elevated ranks We trust their word yet they ****** the sword It is this organizational madness Let me stop here before the mad dogs bite me
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May 27, 2018
May 27, 2018 at 9:50 AM UTC
Today’s Headline
I have seen God. Her head raised high, poised and beautiful Smooth skin that seems to control nature in her veins. In her was history, the first, the genesis. Her love is impartial, incomparable. I have seen God In different shades of earth and nature Made of Protons, neutrons, melanin She is root; the source of life Life itself, the very beginning. I have seen God She would trade her life for her children She’s an armour and life jacket She is the source of life and peace. She is more than an angel, she is a god. I have seen God She is black.
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Mar 29, 2018
Mar 29, 2018 at 8:48 AM UTC
I have seen God
The Spirit Has Given Us Wounds so that the flies may feast on us The limit has been set by those who infest us with fallacy and hypocrisy. Those who pull the strings so that they remain kings as their subjects decay. Those who grab things which belong to all the African kings of today! “Keep them in the dark, let them not see the goodness of light”, they say. But I am the light of Africa and I will shine so bright to open up their eyes so that they may shine more than I shine Africa is not poor, Africa is being looted Africans are not poor, they are just being cheated. Bribe is costing our lives as our corrupt leaders misuse our resources People are dying as the leaders grow fat and untouchable. Transparency and good governance seems unachievable Discrepancies of unscrupulous activities surfaces whenever the media starts to deceive Chorus Our land and resources are enough to feed and clothes us all But the land mourns and the waters are bitter because our hearts are sore. Our silence is tolerance to injustice and violence They have violated our minds with their dead conscience. They have desecrated our rights with their dead ignorance We are all leaders lets dethrone these dealers They have annihilated those who could bring change because of their arrogance Chorus Our land and resources are enough to feed and clothes us all But the land mourns and the waters are bitter because our hearts are sore. Kufa nenyota makumbo arimumvura Honai Baba isu tatambura Kudya nhoko dzezvironda Honai Ishe tauyaura Siyahlupeka!!!! Huyai mutinunure Chorus Our land and resources are enough to feed and clothes us all But the land mourns and the waters are bitter because our hearts are sore. Distort the message Corrupt the masses Falsify the knowledge Blindfold the masses Broad day sacrilege Sacrifice those who speak out To satisfy the deplorable desire And insatiate the insatiable greed. Chorus Our land and resources are enough to feed and clothes us all But the land mourns and the waters are bitter because our hearts are sore. You Leaders we erected you are smart... Using our money to fund your reelection processes As you feed us with promises which are nothing but lies All the efforts your make are to meet the interests of your pockets All the votes you take are to increase the weights of your accounts You leaders we've elected you disgust. Chorus Our land and resources are enough to feed and clothes us all But the land mourns and the waters are bitter because our hearts are sore. What are we? A race in need because of those who lead? A curse on the face of the earth because of our creed? We are a unique and immortal breed. We are going to change our heads so that we succeed.
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May 17, 2017
May 17, 2017 at 6:11 AM UTC
The Spirit Has Given Us Wounds
The Spirit Has Given Us Wounds so that the flies may feast on us The limit has been set by those who infest us with fallacy and hypocrisy. Those who pull the strings so that they remain kings as their subjects decay. Those who grab things which belong to all the African kings of today! “Keep them in the dark, let them not see the goodness of light”, they say. But I am the light of Africa and I will shine so bright to open up their eyes so that they may shine more than I shine Africa is not poor, Africa is being looted Africans are not poor, they are just being cheated. Bribe is costing our lives as our corrupt leaders misuse our resources People are dying as the leaders grow fat and untouchable. Transparency and good governance seems unachievable Discrepancies of unscrupulous activities surfaces whenever the media starts to deceive Chorus Our land and resources are enough to feed and clothes us all But the land mourns and the waters are bitter because our hearts are sore. Our silence is tolerance to injustice and violence They have violated our minds with their dead conscience. They have desecrated our rights with their dead ignorance We are all leaders lets dethrone these dealers They have annihilated those who could bring change because of their arrogance Chorus Our land and resources are enough to feed and clothes us all But the land mourns and the waters are bitter because our hearts are sore. Kufa nenyota makumbo arimumvura Honai Baba isu tatambura Kudya nhoko dzezvironda Honai Ishe tauyaura Siyahlupeka!!!! Huyai mutinunure Chorus Our land and resources are enough to feed and clothes us all But the land mourns and the waters are bitter because our hearts are sore. Distort the message Corrupt the masses Falsify the knowledge Blindfold the masses Broad day sacrilege Sacrifice those who speak out To satisfy the deplorable desire And insatiate the insatiable greed. Chorus Our land and resources are enough to feed and clothes us all But the land mourns and the waters are bitter because our hearts are sore. You Leaders we erected you are smart... Using our money to fund your reelection processes As you feed us with promises which are nothing but lies All the efforts your make are to meet the interests of your pockets All the votes you take are to increase the weights of your accounts You leaders we've elected you disgust. Chorus Our land and resources are enough to feed and clothes us all But the land mourns and the waters are bitter because our hearts are sore. What are we? A race in need because of those who lead? A curse on the face of the earth because of our creed? We are a unique and immortal breed. We are going to change our heads so that we succeed.
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Unluckily, I am an offspring of two different genotypes, For it, I so often face the reverse apartheid by a faction, That faction particular is omnipresent in this nation. Unseemingly, extremely patriotic I do feel except during cricket, They look, at my face and deduce that I am not one of them, That I speak their tongue more eloquently doesn't count.. Up North, they think that my nose is a bit like a Dravidian, But down South, they often think that I am an Aryan, That boycotts me in this land of the Indian nation...
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Oct 14, 2016
Oct 14, 2016 at 6:24 AM UTC
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The fish comes steaming, and English is not the only language making sense. Politics comes with dark green vegetables spewing flavor, Kenyans having lunch on the Boulevard, Lakeshore, – commitment is the idea that momentum cannot disrupt motion, that Committed, one moves forward, Becoming better, Choosing beyond the sound Of Americans, Providing proof of the pudding, cavorting Wildly, With language, the idea that language is not owned, it is spoken – Shoot beyond the target, Make it count. Marriage will not be left with men and women. It has always cavorted with love.
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Jul 26, 2015
Jul 26, 2015 at 10:55 AM UTC
We cavort wildly, with language