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BEST WISHES,
SERVIO.
Abdulaziz A. Abdulaziz
SMUGGLED
WEEPING THE ELECTIONS
NOW I CAN
Adegbenro Emmanuel Jolaolu
THE BIRTH OF THE BEAUTIFUL ONE: A TRANCE
A DIRGE TO MILITARISM
ERE AN EPOCH
Adeniyi Raphael A
A RHAPSODY UPON CLOSE OBSERVATION
ARCANE
RESCUED OR RELEASED
Aderemi Adegbite
CORRUPTION
ESU
Adione Chukwuma Olisaemeka Joseph
THE DESTINATION
POWER, POLITICS OR POUNDS
THE HEART OF A GREEN GIANT
Awoyomi Olusegun Afolabi
SHATTERED DREAM
Ayodele Arowosegbe
My Motherland
Ayodele Toyin
Senseless Dance
Last Youth
Babatunde Adediran
A GREAT LAND
MY STAND
SEEKING
Bada Yusuf
A NEW DAY HAS COME
A PLEDGE TO AFRICA
GOLDEN SUN ON A GOLDEN JUBILEE
Becky Adenuga
THE WARFARE
THE GENIUS SONNET
HOPE
Bello Abiodun
CATARRH’S TROPHY
INNOCENCE
AND AFTER THIS WAR…
Chitzi Ogbumgbada
YESTERDAY
METAMORPHOSIS
CONCRETE PLINTH
Chuma Anikwata
COMA PATIENT
NIGERIA AT FIFTY (On the Bombing
Of Lagos on 6th October 2010)
RE-BRANDING NIGERIA
NIGERIA FACTOR
THE NIGERIAN’S GUILT
RUINED TOWN
Daniel Etim Inyang
“IDPs”
“AS LIFE IS LIKE AS THIS”
“FROM A CITIZEN”
Emeyazia Iwediokpulu Chukwudi
I AM NIGERIAN AND I AM PROUD
IF WE MUST FIGHT
I CHOOSE
Faith Uvosire Geoffrey
FIVE DECADES
CONQUEROR
CONVICT
Femi Morgan
LEAVING LAGOS
THIS PLACE
FREE VANITY
Grace Atuhaire
HUMAN WAY OF LIFE
MY PRESIDENT WANTS ME TO BE A PART OF THE CLUB
Ibukun Filani
HEROES
PERFECTION
TWO RIVERS
Ikeogu Oke
WHY DO YOU KISS ME
Ikwuakor Kelechi
THE FREEDOM
AFTER RAIN
THE STEP UP
Ismail Bala
THE PRESIDENT’S FACE
FACES OF FEAR
GOING UP TO LAGOS
POLKA (For C. K. Williams)
Isoje Iyi-Eweka Chou
A NOTICE IN THREE STEPS (FOR NIGERIA)
TO A NATION UNABLE TO CRY IN OUTRAGE BUT RATHER COMPLAIN IN COMPLAISANCE
WHEN IN AFRICA, CALL IT HOME
Kevin Kezabu
CAREER WOMAN
MOTHER AND CHILD
THE HEROINE
Kole Ade Odutola
LAGOS ROBBER…
REFERENCE PUNCH
DANCE OF THE MIND
NOLLYWOUND: UNWRITTEN PLOT
Nnamani Chiemerie
REDEMPTION SONG
THE WORLD WAS SILENT
Nnamdi Onyirioha
“A LONELY RENDITION”
GOURMANDS
Nnena Munachimso
NIGERIA MY COUNTRY
MY LOVELY DEAD AUNT
Oladele Noah Adesogo
NIGERIA AT 50
Olayiwola Awakan GrPr
LETTER TO MOTHER
THE WAILING HEART
RAINY RAY
Oguntoyinbo Shola Phebian
OUR HERITAGE
COURSE OF LIFE
THE BLAST
Oludare Richards
CRY OF THE CREEKS
Olumide Michael Akinola
LIBERTY
Osumuo Chijioke Enyinnaya
THE DEATH OF A GENERAL
INTRODUCTION
Otim Jackson Oyugi
Welcome Home
Samson Olusola Olatunji
PAPA NIGERIA
PROBLEM VEHICLE, SELFISH DRIVER
THE THIEF IS ONE OF US
WE AND THEY
Sanni Olumayowa Olufemi
A FOOL AT 50
CHAMELEON
Servio Gbadamosi
THE MESH
THE PRESIDENT
AFTER THE DELUGE
HARMONY
LANGUAGE OF THE DRUM
(For Niyi Osundare)
Soon Nath
NIGERIA @ 50
NAIJA-POLICE
ZONING
Su’eddie Agema
IN THE TWILIGHT
(Inspired by Okigbo. To Zaki-Biam, the Niger Delta and their commons)
A CYCLIC CIRCLE OF THE HALF
WHEN YOU SEE ME LAUGHING
Taiwo Olusola Emmanuel
I. WHY WON’T I WRITE? - THE GENESIS
II. WHY WON’T I WRITE? - THE CHRONICLE
III. WHY WON’T I WRITE? - THE APOCALYSE
Tam Gogo-Ibulubo
HOW LONG WILL I HAVE TO WAIT
THE CHAMELEON SKIN
NO GOODBYE
Terh Agbedeh
TOTEM
(Upon Reading Wole Soyinka’s A Dance of the Forests)
TWILIGHT OF DREAMS
HISTORY
Theodore Nyingifa
MY COUNTRY
SUFFERING N SMILING
(freestyle)
Tolu Akinwole
OBUKO
OF THE SONG TO COME
LEST THEY LAUGH AT US
Uchenna Nnodum
THE MIRAGE OF HOPE
TO MY UNFAITHFUL LOVE
NOT OLD ENOUGH
Umma Aliyu Musa
IN SHACKLES
WHEN?
TAINTED DEMOCRACY
NATIONAL ANTHEM II
I AM NIGERIA
NAIJA AT 50
Uwineza Mimi Harriet
FRESH POTS OF EGYPT
THE PATRIOT
(for you dad)
TOMORROW IS HERE
Yeku James
WHAT SHALL I TELL?
LETTER TO IWALEWA
THEY SAY I AM A MILLITANT!
Yemi Soneye
PROMISE
Yetunde Taiwo
THE LAND IS GREEN…
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