MY NIJA SONG
(In Celebration
of Nigeria's 56th Independence Day)
You lie in a
delta mooned by the clot of Azikiwe & Awolowo.
You stood by the
left when Nkrumah's Ghana stood by the right in the fight for freedom.
The sun blooms
from Sokoto reaching as far as Oyo.
The sea rides from Cross River
intercoursing Ekiti.
There might be
sore wounds & scars all over your body.
Yet – you are
ever green.
For your seed of
Olurun shall germinate into offsprings of Obatala &
Sango lightening
the pathway and seeding a new dawn of Africa's light
BY:
Abeiku Arhin Tsiwah
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Abeiku Arhin
Tsiwah, an undergraduate of University of Cape Coast, is the author and
co-author of "Dead Epistles" & "Palm Leaves" (both
poetry collections). Edits African Poetry for Lunaris Review, Nigeria and serves
as a Linguist-Performist in the Afro-Poetry Movement; The Village Thinkers – Ghana.
Tsiwah writes from his fatherland, Cape Coast, Ghana.
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