The archive Active Poem by Kabiru A. Muhammad · 1992 When our guns shout To silence the voice of oppression And the applauding tyranny They grow quiet banished to oblivion When our boots Ka-ka-kaed athundering And Khaki ours shine In an effulgent light Poised our bayonets erect Like charging rhino’s horn And our tanks’ trot […]
The archive Placards vs sirens Poem by Ibrahim Sheme · 1992 Their placards cried in red For freedom, for rights denied: all day Underground yet the pittance Could not even buy ball shorts for a kid; So in big reds the placards protested Thinking you could overcome Your animal lust and act human. Through the […]