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The enemy has come back around He is no longer a memory recorded in your history books Or a story that your grandfather told you The...

Dear Nigerian, Now that you live abroad I hope you know that you are better than those back home Each time you talk about that country...

Praise Buhari For his stoic silence In face of death --of civilians --and soldiers --and children Oh, Praise Buhari For his shrug of...

I often imagine another life for my uncle One where he does not live alone In a house he built A house with empty bedrooms and a deserted...

The day you die Will begin like any other day You will search for your ringing phone in the darkness And lazily dismiss the alarm You...

They say, "The marriage fell apart" Like it was a thing of its own A living, breathing thing That chose to pack up and leave An entity...

It is the smell of ogi Cooking on a kerosene stove When the house is still quiet And the air outside still carries the song of crickets...

Home is the mouth of a shark With laundry Spread across squalid teeth And generators Balanced on odious tongue Black fumes Rising into...

they came at night blood-thirsty soldiers guns cocked for battle with unarmed singing flag-waving civilians call the massacre by its name...