Poetry
Betta C. Edu At 37: Rising Through the Ranks
Poetry
We Stand With The People Of Niger -Yusuf M Adamu
The wind of change is blowing in West Africa
Behold, the Sahel is open for emancipation
Tell the puppets still hanging in West Africa
That, this wind will blow to the coast
It is an unstoppable wave of revolution
There will be a definite domino effect
ECOWAS assumes it will be a clean walk
Once it starts, it will be another Ukraine
NATO will back us to kill our brothers
We will strengthen NATO’s claws for exploitation
Buy their weapons and ensure Niger remains a milking cow
While the Sahel keeps the status as a world poverty capital
The Nigerien people did not invite ECOWAS
If democracy is about people’s choices
Let the people decide their own destiny
Nigerians did and will not support this proxy war
We the people have no support for this bullying
We will not support or fight a proxy war
We are not fools to fight someone else’s war
West Africa should solve its problems
In its own way without the prompting of the West
Let’s all the revolutionary youths of the Sahel rise
The future of the Sahel begins now.
We stand with the people of Niger!
© Yusuf M. Adamu
August 11, 2023
Poetry
COLLATERAL DAMAGE-Prof Yusuf M Adamu
Confusion, frustration and exhaustion
Anger enveloping our emotions
Ensuring ordinary Nigerians become helpless
Because of someone’s desire for revenge
A health facility would only accept cash
A woman had to die, there is no cash
A dead person could not be buried
A white shroud required, also need cash
A marriage could not be solemnized
Dowry must be paid in cash
There is no cash, old or newly designed
What a tragedy for the couple and family?
Small businesses have closed
People have to walk for lack of cash
even with money at bank, one is cashless
One cannot withdraw one’s own money
Don’t talk about our relatives in rural areas
Life is made unbearable and maddening
The political leaders don’t care about us
Yet they want us to give them our votes
Ordinary Nigerians have all become collaterals
Because the old shark want to punish his enemies
At the expense of all of us who have not offended him
Today, we are the collateral damage of the old shark
February 9, 2023
10:35pm
© Yusuf M. Adamu
Poetry
The Kingdom of the Deaf & the Blind
This kingdom is doomed
its old king is deaf
also totally blind
his council too is deaf & blind
they choose not to see
the cracks on the wall
they refuse to hear the cries
of the people that gave them legitimacy
They are busy listening to an
obnoxious music of power
their eyes only see a false rainbow
while their perceived power
is gradually being consumed
by the arrogance of borrowed time
of momentary control
as they get consumed by their wickedness.
© Yusuf M. Adamu, 2022
September 23, 2022
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