Long Fulani Poems

I am....
An Ashanti warrior A Bantu dancer 
I am a Yoruba royal clothed in my Asooke 
Dancing Adowa and kpalogo to tunes from wulomei and masekela  

I am proud Masai 
Standing around manyattas, 
Jumping...

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SOMETIME I FEEL LIKE SHOUTING---WAKATI FULANI NATAKA KUPIGA KELELE-


katika mwanga wa jua-
hata katika mvua
Bwana nataka kupiga kelele jina lako
Sometimes I feel like shouting, Lord I feel like shouting your name;
again, again and again
Sometimes I feel...

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Let's create two cities: death and tears,
We'll name our tears shitholes because we've forgotten why we were called so by he whom power rests on his shoulders.
These memories of ours we titled death are fragments...

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A FULANI GIRL’S COMPLAINT


I carried water. I did all the house cores. I drove and bred the cattle one and alone, singing songs, running and climbing mountains. I milked, sold milk and bought you silk....

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Haiku I mean
because
life is a mystery

sky is clear
and serene

one draw

these grasshoppers-
I want to pass
I want to smile

may be love
is hand to mouth
or may be we eat
to live
or may be we live to eat

because here is...

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The westerners eat Amala and Ewedu
We eat Akpo and Ofe Nsala
They dance Juju and Apala
We dance bongo and atilogwu the beat of life.
T^he Northerners speaks hausa whilst we speak igbo
They married with no bride price...

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Shawaï!
Born struggling for bread and butter on the way to the barren land
Where Adama’s warriors settled like saviors with Fulani to spread the Nation
And implant Fulani’s mingled tradition burying indigenous cultures with the edge of...

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Tatizo letu sisi kama sisi ni kwamba hatuna elimu lakini ni wajuaji 
Tatizo letu sisi kama sisi ni kwamba hatutaki kutembea bali kukimbia
 Tatizo letu sisi kama sisi ni kwamba hatushibi, 
Tunakula mpaka tunajamba 
Tuna...

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TO MY MOM DADA ZOUWAIRATOU M YAUKI
THE TRUEST HAUSA-FULANI

The iron core of the whole family
She stands with the long rooster
First crow which tears up, praying, and
Goes on laboring till the owl grave hoots
Herald the veiling...

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In the fantasizing brains of all Nigerian Fulanis,
Including their kindergarten still urinating on nannies;
All the entries and exits within country’s Aso Rock
To keep obeying their adjustable, Fulani clock!
Presently, the unstoppable aspiration of the Purest Hausa...

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To everyone who found himself,
Found himself by looking for the good in others.
The more you try to add value to others,
The more you add value to yourself.
The more I try to plant my SWAP in...

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Who Can?

 Paints a Fulani maiden
 With creamy calabash hawking 'fura de nunu',
 A tall nomad, pole stretches on his long shoulders
 Hold in place with hanging fingers like broom,
 Being on a nowhere long...

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I can't wait for May 29:
On that day Spanish or French wine,
Ready same day Italian shoe;
I'll die for its color: sky blue!

May 29 President goes,
In Nigeria, New Promise flows;
First Citizen 'Just Citizen';
In the North Fulani...

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Malefactor of our mighty land
Guile do they practice from them, beat
Skank do they drop on our prior rand

Their soul's the people reprimand
Like flies rejecting a rust feet
Malefactor of our mighty land

Drive them from our inunct...

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What trigger people to kill?
why do people hate?
why is the world full of wickedness?
question 
Rhetorical questions
No more love
No more brothers keeper but brother killer

Fight everywhere 
bombing and death 
blood everywhere 
homeless ,helpless 
yet full of...

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What trigger people to kill?
why do people hate?
why is the world full of wickedness?
question 
Rhetorical questions
No more love
No more brothers keeper but brother killer

Fight everywhere 
bombing and death 
blood everywhere 
homeless ,helpless 
yet full of...

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