– Spilling everyday experiences with words –
Posted on September 14, 2020 by Ugo Nkwoala
In my lifetimeI may not see youbecome that I earnestly wish. In their opinionwe were monkeys livin’ on tressbefore they came and made us men. We’re a conquered nation –the wandering Jews of Africa, butin my viewpoint – I‘m the hope of Africa. As… Continue Reading “In My Lifetime”
Posted on October 1, 2019 by Ugo Nkwoala
“Welcome to Zuluza,” “The most beautiful n’ hate-free country in the world.” “Oh, surely not,” said the tourist. “Well, perhaps not the most beautiful,” said the citizen “but the most tolerant – very friendly people we’re!” “On the streets of Oweto, behind prison walls… Continue Reading “ZULUZA”
Category: Politics & Social normsTags: anti-racism, coexistence, color, discrimination, exclusion, fear, hate, hate-crime, herd-behavior, herd-mentality, immigration, Patriotism, tolerance, violence, xenophobia
Posted on May 29, 2019 by Ugo Nkwoala
9ja, my 9ja you’re dear to me as a homeland but I know you’ll not be truly mine until Justice is done. Are you still that country my proud forebears fought vehemently for at Independence? Sang at dinner tables, in Town halls, that you’ll… Continue Reading “9ja”
Category: Politics & Social normsTags: Biafra, Ibo tribe, IPOB- sit -at- home, Marginalization, Nigeria, Patriotism
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 […]