Best Niger Poems

When someone is told to go back in his country
 in peace, it is very wise to go early 
to avoid public shame. 
When the Ultimatum of French ambassador 
of 48 hours to leave Niger's territory passed, 
Some nigerien officials cut water and power 
at...

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Sweet Niger wherever I go I will come back;
Certainly I will for the rejuvenation of life.
Even if I  am old and my  frame begins to rack,
I shall be born again when into your bowel I dive.
I will come back for the rejuvenation of...

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As Ecowas  sanctioned Niger, 
some neighbour countries members 
of Ecowas opposed those sanctions
on their African brothers and sisters 
which are useless.
current president of Burkinafaso "
the very young president on the planet " 
sent three hundred trucks of foods 
and other things,  escorted by his military
to...

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"Once upon a time," my grandfather used to say,
Our homeland was awesome to behold.
Lush green mountains beautiful to behold,
Surrounded by forests unravished and virgin,
Wild creatures prancing and happy birds chirping,
Men and animals had respect for one another.
The air smelt of peace and the land was...

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from this forest
where wild life once blossom’d
& from streams 
where young sweety fishes
up-turn’d a thousand fragrance
in some belly-wise shows
gasping
bubbling
drumming to many lips
to a ceremony of delicacies –
& then mother
i was a scukling
babling
crawling
swept by the clan’s lovely drum
& then mother
i was a todler 
graduating from your
ready...

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Like the days of invasive explorers, your plight commenced
You went explosive with yields of unrestrained wealth
Dishing out involuntarily, streams of the inflammable oil and gas
From your natural reservoir, they flowed relentlessly
Filling the insatiable pockets of merciless exploiters
And saves of ambitious tyrants with abyss of desires

When...

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From the distance shores of the Niger
I have come, O good friend 
With glittering 'Ola ocha and ola edo' from our ancient river
As precious presents to you my good friend


From the treasury fold of my grandfather
O friend, I brought these these olas in honor of...

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hail!
he, who sail’d
thro’ those long nights
in the hobs of
niger’s hidden chambers 
amongst those weird shades
of the niger;
hail!
he, who came in
with those trophies
from the living-dead
those trophies
of my ancestors
the ancestors of my red earth
the red earth of my forest
the forest of my drum
the drum of my clan
the...

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*THE ARMAGEDDON   IN THE SOUTH*

Blessed with inestimable reservoirs 
Countless traps sealing gas yet untouched 
Seated on wealth beyond its numbers 
Wealth to sustain their  tenth generations 
Enough  to feed the glutton of the deserts 
Favoured in Powerful wealth and health 
With...

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sing me her songs
her songs amongst the old rocks & mounts
her ancients songs
amid those pages & their kings
when mansa musa was the prince
& sundiata was in preeminence

(to be continued)...

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The only source of a State's wealth
Lies in woeful scences
Of penury, Abduction,
Pollution and rebelion....

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AGONY  OF  RIVER  NIGER.
These  morning  as  the  cock
Crocks
In  need  of  tasty  quality  maize
Not  minding  a  truck  load,
No  hipped  infected  grains
Mounted  by  the  new...

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& i see the clouds
smiling beside
my war-fed clan
they come, wearing
some new garments
behind the flood-gates
the forlorn gates
of old niger’s maidens
clean shaven
are the elders
now clean’d of
just yesterday’s beards
elderhood is gone!
siting on mat
aweful are their looks
they see nothing
of this new new moon
coming
to the homeland
oh, niger!...

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Let the sun meet the moon
and the dusk embrace the dawn;
let parallels form a plain
a bridge to unite East and West.

Let language be no curse 
and distance be no barrier;
let earthly divides cease to be 
like ashes scattered to the wind.

Across the Niger I found...

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The release of the naked sword of marine oil spills 
From the window and door of offshore platforms drilling rigs,
From the arena of natural oil sips to execute our living meals.

Petroleum hydrocarbon spreading its tentacle to the coastal shores,
Crops behold their departures
And sudden death is...

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