The great old game of politicsThat makes nonsense of mathemat-icsI do hope we are ripe for youOr else again, at you we’ll boo.You divide a home that’s oneAnd set a father against his sonIn fact you permeate religion. You’re meant to be a game that’scleanBut not to swell the purse that’s leanAnd make moneybags overnightThat […]
If politics is a gameLet’s choose our playersThose who can shootAnd won’t make us shout. If politics is a gameLet’s choose our playersThose who don’t foulAnd won’t make us fall. If politics is a gameLet’s choose our playersThose who can ranAnd won’t bring us ruin. If politics is a gameLet’s choose our playersThose who can […]
Typhoons have less furyThan storms of thoughtsCrossing my mindThe society devouringLiver of its youngMy ignorant society of ragsPassivity and squalorA million stars flashbefore my eyesReceiving the slap of betrayalLet me love IslamLet me love you in IslamLet me work Islam with youBe pious muslims with my handClasp tightly in your handMy dormant, docile, sterile societyPassengers […]
We have no need forthe common salt of want and hungersaid the spokespersons of the peopleas they rode kites of ballot paperto the truth of an ancient wish But we must stop theseair-conditioned arguments —do something — said the Peoples’lawyersas they stood up and werecarried shoulder high …When my mother came backfrom the rally of […]
The Structural Adjustment ProgrammeIs the South Africa police.The SharpevilleIn my villa.Driving me out to the villageAnd taking away all my privilegeAllowing me only a dig of my minesAnd leaving me strapped-of my moneyPlus unusual divided mind. Mohammed Alh. Nanu Potiskum EDITOR’S NOTE Originally published in Citizen on 16 Nov 1992, p. 37. This diplomatic transcription […]
Theirs blow democracy,Why this defuncracy? Pardon me political dragons,Yours, the transmission of programmes,For good, and free cakes. Well then, political dispensation,Best of all, Nairanisation of the nation,The bankrupt political equation. O, you dogs of power,Mind your whiskers, it’s not Naira power,It’s hitch-free not eat-free on power. Pause, the day will come,To cheer-up political game,Bullet-proof democratic […]