Why humanity ever create this
Little coins and worthless papers
called money
That enslave all their efforts
Becoming the most blinding of pas-
sion
Transcending all honest virtues
Blinding the heart of majority
into dubiousness and criminality
Immorality and decadence
In both polity, and cultures
Destroying communality and com-
mercialising relations,
Turning some to parasites, specula-
tors
That live in great abundance
while emaciating the productive
Umaru Garba
EDITOR’S NOTE
Originally published in Citizen on 20 Jan 1992, p. 38. This diplomatic transcription preserves the wording and lineation visible in the archived page.