Dahomey Poems - Poems about Dahomey

...Injustice is just an inconvenience until it is proven... When the sun hit their helmets it startled the very souls of the natives a signal upon their eyes that spoke like a siren of ill prophecy to......Read the rest...

...I am Africa I. Distant And lonely I am The barren land Of untoward change, The empty womb, The amputated hands, I am The Maker of new worlds I am Africa. I am The broken voice......Read the rest...

...let’s remember the ancestors the ancestors of the clan – the infamous and un-kingly kings celebrate their inglorious libations all over my land, my clan – but, my clansmen let not the clan forget the......Read the rest...

...Rise up black woman and you all of other colours Rise up and grab your fallen baton Passed down from the hand of heroines past Rise up from the grave Amina Zazzau The lioness who hunted for lion......Read the rest...