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SINS OF THE MASTERS ll
These cumulative atrocities went unpunished
And they persisted without atonement
Now we co-exist cheek by jowl with the masters
Telling us to let bygones be bygones
To forget...
My new graduates
By Baba Sawo
Conferred on you is a label
Much of which stands whilst able
Coming this far, indeed a struggle
You muffled, mumbled
and kept within rubbles
Walk tall...
The world becomes an irony
By Omar Sarr
Two great powers
The night and the day
Fighting an endless battle
To rule the earth and space
The birth of the sun
Is the weapon of...
The perilous journey
By Ousman Drammeh
Oh, Mauritanian Sea
Have you turned to become a red sea?
Why should you drink
The blood of adolescents
Who had never stolen?
Even a saliva of...
The Faraba incident
By Muhammad Basiru Gambia
The Legal Hustler
I say it is so painful
If am quiet, they
say am not merciful
If I say it louder,
some will say am...
Africa wake up
By Alagie Muhammed Jaiteh
The Spectrum Poet
It's high time we ended
The most bitter of all times
That washes away African child's dreams
The ethnic contestation
That buried...
Oga or Ogre?
By Sheriff Bojang
Today he's all Santa
Tomorrow, all Satan
Dancing,
On Ezekiel's field of dry bones
Today he is all black
Tomorrow, all white
Today he is all for peace
Tomorrow,...
Barrel of a pen
My pen is limping
Vomiting but no ink
The silence from a weapon
A weapon of truth or falsehood
The barrel of a pen
With salvos of silence sound
The...
Toils of marriage
Back and forth, she goes in and out
On her back, she kept her child tight
Its head popping up 'n' down as she strides
In her...
EF Small: The candlelight
About you many are silent
And on you all should look at, putting on their lenses
You are the candlelight
That our nation, you put through the...