Concrete jungles! – Adewale Sobowale

Ajegunle – with unlivable, ramshackle palaces, kids playing in cesspits, since the place lacks, even, simplest of amenities – remains a banter, where our new jungle cities are! Even the dead, dead as dodo, get deprived of eternal rest or unrest, graveyards must be reclaimed, and give way to skyscrapers! Sleeping waters are woken, reclamation…

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My People! – Adewale Sobowale

Pikin never waka,E yarn say,Im papa farm,Na im reach pass. Wen e don wakaReach, e come sabi,Say de peopleWey dey rule us. Dem be baba nla,For lie lie.Wetin dem deyDo sef?Na baba nla,For jibitiPlus Wayo. Cunny man die,Wayo manBury am-Two jam four. Dem dey collectBig big money.Dem dey use am,Do Ajala travel. Upon wetin?Dem dey…

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Komu Komu! – Adewale Sobowale

Aren’t we allin birthday suits?Adam and Eve were luckythey were covered with leaves!Our own privacy is nakedness! We go aboutrunning from pillar to post,yet hardly findingtrue meaning of our beings! Would it be right to say,All men are equal?An emphatic no!Equality of manis but an ideal.Men,through actions and inactionsare making it unidealisticand unfeasible! Is there…

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Learning Right – Adewale Sobowale

At their feetWhile being feed-ed! With right,not that White-Influenced history,which is oppositewhat really happenedto our ancestorswhile laboring,slaving out their sweats!Sufferingas slavesafter being sold outby African chiefs,who were influencedby mirrorsand gin andeven cowry shells.We were mis-educated!Mungo ParkDiscoveredRiver NigerYeah!African people wereNot reckoned withMadam TinubuKosoko @AS 03/04/22

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