Ziliwa enzi za kale, Anga ilibadilika Tukawa sote wateule, bara likatikisika Nasi pamwe na wale, Walau tukazindika Likaja bila kupusa, Wingu la mabadiliko Wimbi la matumaini, Ya uhuru lilifika Lipoenda mkoloni, Akabaki Mwafrika Mawimbi siasani, [...]

Get me that dress black as night I don’t want to mess up this chance In block-shaped heels, I will rock and hop Let’s get to the party, let’s dance Bell bottom jeans would do right The one white as cotton in a glance I will match it with my [...]

They took Ayanfe from her mother, Taking all, with no discrimination, On a journey of no return, Through Gberefu, the place of no return, Turning every town into an extension of their entitlement, Colonies, they had called it, Our anguish, their [...]

A Peppermint Break from Colonial Rusty Binds In the tranquillity of Petrichor, where authenticity grew again in the lavender fields of culture and heritage. Our name, once forgotten like a phoenix, surged a new identity into the oceans of [...]

Tell us. What do we feel in the land of green and white? The sweet embrace of freedom in that year, Or do we feel nothing, the nostalgia? Minds filled with hope as we accept the freedom of being held from a distance. Oh, they were gone, but they [...]

The sky is a frumpish mass of broken sheets of restless clouds, Inundated by shrieks and twitters of chimerical birds Watching over us with impatience and anger. Where storks had sought sure refuge, In the comfort of the warm havens of these [...]

In the dawn of a new era’s rise, African drums beat, spirits surmise. The winds of change swept across the land, As independence flags unfurled, hand in hand. The shackles of colonial chains broke free, A continent’s voice echoed wild and [...]

They segregated my people. They threw them into the pig’s sty. They kept the fruitful soil for themselves. “Let them eat dirt,” they say. While standing on the blood of my people. While wearing the sweat and tears of my people. They dare steal, [...]

The soil of the fathers has been soiled A soil for which they toiled until it became their possession They wrestled with lions for the children of their loins The redness of their eyes was mistaken for the grapes of the South As people, the past [...]

Quite often than not, Fairy tale thoughts invade and conquer my sparse crown, Uplifting my entire being Into pseudo glory, A realm, where I am exalted, A noble laureate, A world’s best… Embedded in the world book of records, Flying on the [...]

My lips dine on your words Oh, sweet divine thee An angel from the sky-fall How much guilt do they who let you go? My Aphrodite, do you suit this cliché For your beauty leaves men senseless Even in depths of war you’re a cause Their last breaths [...]

Away from the boisterous barging of the day And melancholic musings of the metropolis, Byways, highways, roads, and streets, trucks, tricycles, sedans, vans, Motorcyclists, tans, sweated brows, and frowns. Illicit and legitimate souls, all on [...]