Achebe Poems - Poems about Achebe

...Life isn't always about winning This what I say to those who're thinking That Jay Jay in spite of Fame is over hyped Cos they're crude to know that such hotshots are archetyped Just like Tyson......Read the rest...

...I AM AFRICA I am a mother not a murderer Patronage of numerous natural resources Filled with beautiful creatures are my tropical My heritage, adorned with glorious cultures In the forest of the ......Read the rest...

...Who am I? I am a lion who comes out as a goat I am an ocean with waves big enough to drown I am a child of Mesopotamia A descendant of Shaka Zulu Baptized in the Nile I depict the sword of M......Read the rest...

...With wealth and blessings overflowing Non would project this time we behold To prove to humanity the lesson of life Nothing stays unless true effort is made The fourth is falling before the eye......Read the rest...

...Chuka Nnabuife: Nwoke Na Mma (Ab? p?r? iche maka mmemme ncheta ?gb?gba ah? iri ise nke Sa Chuka Nnab?ife) Izunna Okafor dere ab? a A s? na mma nwoke b? mpempe akw?kw? Mana nke ah? b? ......Read the rest...

...What a World! By Izunna Okafor Tears roll down my cheeks Beholding the palm tree I tapped From his knowledge of blue ink With a bow, lofting off a huge gap What a World ! Our intell......Read the rest...

...Bum! Bam! The exixt of jokers, They run for they shall not witness the coming of the Ijele They say, "are we not masquerades? ain't the Ijele as Spirit as we are?" But, their courage fell as the......Read the rest...

...HEAL THY SELF O WOUNDED AFRICA (no to XENOPHOBIA). Wake up a voice shouted You slept like a pregnant woman While the drum beat of my assagil sounds like trumpet Wit......Read the rest...

...At the station Paton stares at me from the train bound for Johannesburg He leaves a note to remember to mop up where the roof leaks This is after the British take Achebe and I's gods away before s......Read the rest...

...create a golden route for a poet like me, let the embodiment of song carved itself in the palms of the world beyond till lyrics of faith light to ease the thought of my mind. If you die before me......Read the rest...

...MY WEDDING DAY On my wedding day I wore a pink suit A white cuff links With a black long sleeve. I and my wife Walked down the aisle With hands held tight And faces dazzling. The rose fl......Read the rest...

...deep, deep into the coven Men gathered in black red chanting of loom doom to come Spiritualism shrunk and shrieked Enchantment of idols of life Chanting rumbles of voidness and tempest and hai......Read the rest...

...after Odumegwu Ojukwu after Chinua Achebe after Christopher Okigbo after Dele Giwa after Kofi Awoonor after Kwame Nkrumah after Ngugi Wa Thiong'o after Nelson Mandela after Wole Soyinka ......Read the rest...

...And this picture on the wall of my heart told a story of men giving birth among themselves in the north promiscuously... Sipping memories from the lungs of the girl child. They were not ashamed ......Read the rest...

...To Christopher Okigbo To Chinua Achebe To Wole Soyinka To JP Clarks To Habila Helon A measure of time past I am part of your dark side To this wayward side of this wet Benue roads, childr......Read the rest...