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Posted on November 9, 2020 by Ugo Nkwoala
The will for power is a paradox –some lie n’ cheat to winothers risk life to unmask its pranksits twists and turns bring outthe basest and the best in us. Zealous is the scheme for power, yet a paradox –its reign whizzes by frighteningly… Continue Reading “The Will for Power”
Category: Politics & Social normsTags: Biden-and-Trump, domination, elections, Elections 2020, evil, fairness, falsehood, Freedom, Government, losing, paradox, power, radicalism, subjugation, tyranny
Posted on October 21, 2020 by Ugo Nkwoala
The will to power destroys the power to will.The weapon made, we cannot help but use it;it drags us with its own momentum still. The power to kill compounds the need to kill.Grown out of hand, the heart cannot refuse it;the will to power… Continue Reading “Weapon”
Category: Politics & Social normsTags: Corruption in Nigeria, ENDSARS, Genocide, Government, graves, hate, ideologies, Lekki-toll-gate- massacre, Nigeria, Nigerian-Army, war, weapons
Posted on October 7, 2019 by Ugo Nkwoala
Yeah, I remember ‘19a year of NEXT LEVEL CHANGEthe economy in recessionworkers n’ management at a crossroad –mass-sack, unannounced pay cuts,hunger n’ despair in the family n’ land –Poverty capital of the world.Fear about suicide bombersin the mosque, churches n’ marketplace.Government considering land grabsready… Continue Reading “‘19”
Posted on November 9, 2018 by Ugo Nkwoala
Nigeria! My strange native land, by a well-worn building, under a tattered Green-white stripe that looks like your flag, I heard hums in good voices, in innocence your young bloods of kindergarten age pledge with might to – serve, honour and protect strives… Continue Reading “Nigeria”
Posted on November 6, 2018 by Ugo Nkwoala
Land of beauty. Land of the beautiful. Land of our fathers – valiant men n’ women Land of dreamers, who dreamt big for our land, for our people. Land of dreams that have turned pipe dreams Land of promise. Land of promise breakers Land… Continue Reading “Paradox”
Category: Politics & Social normsTags: Africa, Biafra, Corruption, Democracy, Eric Osagie, Governance, Government, Independence Day, Nationalism, Nigeria, opinion, Politics, Poverty, society
Posted on October 22, 2018 by Ugo Nkwoala
Category: Politics & Social normsTags: Bourgeoisie, Capitalism, CEO's, Corporations, Corruption, Delusion, Evils-of-capitalism, exploitation, free-trade, Government, Greed, Humanity, Nigeria, Poverty, Wealth
IDear Irony, “Tell me, my goddess.”What numbers have you laid sway?Is it the Wise – who derides Folly?Or the ridiculed who derides his mocker –“In all his insight and contemplative devote he isa maverick proclaiming without any result his knowinglike a parched lost vagabond in Saharathe thirst for knowledge had led him to drinkfrom the […]
Had there been no green in him one would not have thoughtHim to have been envenomed, but starting back from theDarting of this virid twister, one forgets at leastFor a moment that there is no question of his virulence here.His color is drawn from the grass in which he flickers,But washed as by the water […]