Best Fela Poems
I Sing Africa
...All's not about Darfur
I've seen it, eerie winds
Moonlight through our thatch
We kissed round, one *palmie gourd
Kigali was but a miss
Waist-beads - beats to love
Have you heard the......
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Categories:
fela, black-african amergrandmother,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Fela Kuti,A Maverick
...A legend who created the Afro-beat,
Sent to read medicine,but opted for music,
Advocator for the poor,who refuses defeat,
He uses his music to strengthen his physique.
He fought against corruption ......
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Categories:
fela, dedication, life, music, music,
Form:
Quatrain
The Rhythm of Africa, Collabo With Mo Marugu
...Unsung on the world stage
Heroes of the African continent
Diverse lingo, diverse souls
Capture minds capture hearts
Most unappreciated
Their rhythm echoes
Their wisdom ancient
Music unconv......
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Categories:
fela, africa, art, beauty, culture,
Form:
Epic
Abami Eda (For Fela Anikulapo-Kuti)
...Appears the strange Fella
On a stage of many fellows
But not doing “Mr Follow-follow”
Smoking it out the truth
Into the skulls of the VIP
Like no other fellow
Abami, thorning their flesh ceas......
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Categories:
fela, allegory, death, hope, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
A Letter To Steve
...Dear Steve,
My vigor is exhausted as a revolutionary with a cause
My spirit is trapped in a dwindling dream
By capitalist creams
Enticing my mental stream
A forgotten face am I in the aftermath of......
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Categories:
fela, freedom, history, political, tribute,
Form:
Epitaph
African Woman
...African woman, I have heard so much about you
I have heard that you are caring, that you are loving , that your kindness is incomparable. I have heard that your beauty needs no special powders and c......
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Categories:
fela, beauty, caregiving, devotion, mum,
Form:
Ode
The Legend Lives
...He was an enigma, a true one.
His followers see him as religious.
Few people say he was a philosopher.
Some say he was a prophet.
Many prefer to call him a soothsayer.
Yet, others call him a pol......
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Categories:
fela, inspirational, life, loss,
Form:
Lyric
If You Die Before Me
...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......
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Categories:
fela, absence, abuse, depression,
Form:
Blank verse
Bogolo
...Ngwaga e be ele e se me ka geke ipona tlhakatlhakanong
Kgwedi txe mmalwa fela gore ke fetse atla tse pedi
Maahlo a be a bona fela tsa mono kgabagareng
Kgopolo ere nna ke sa nkga mekgatho
Efela pe......
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Categories:
fela, age, anger, betrayal, childhood,
Form:
Narrative
My Poem, Our Poems
...When the sky shall cry soon,
your head shall be the dwelling place
of its tears of shame and lame.
I will help to sing this cracking song,
an unbelievable old fashioned tone,
a jazz tone of Fela......
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Categories:
fela, africa, art,
Form:
Ballad
Die Alone
...Fela hela bale!
Confuse the confused,
Mask the unmasked,
You to obtain the desired,
Then theirs cares will be attended,
Because we live disintegrated,
And everyone will die alone.......
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Categories:
fela, art,
Form:
Verse
Nigeria Has Gone Mad Again
...The nuts had been cracked, all nuggetting towards the street,
Many women are seen fighting in the market place,
1983 history repeating itself in a bloody combat.
All the alliances loosed at the si......
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Categories:
fela, africa, art, baseball,
Form:
Narrative
Musical Love
...Musical love
Our love forged on the Mount Fuji
Dining, wining and dancing to the beats of Garbage Fuji
Many times shot were we with the film Fuji…
We sit crooning to the songs of apala
Where......
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Categories:
fela, eulogy, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Adieu Elechi Amadi
...With the voice of Niyi Osundare,
I will sing a beautiful song to your
Departing spirit until my voice ache,
A brave saint you are cracking every
nut that refuse to put on a smile on face.
Yo......
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Categories:
fela, africa, age,
Form:
Free verse
The Priest With a Saxophone
...he came, his sword unsheathed
like his forbears in -deed
cutting through thickets of injustice and oppression
he plunged deep into
the hearts, and the heart of corruption
he came, a priest in ......
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Categories:
fela, dedication
Form:
Lyric