THE WILL TO BELIEVE Storms as always Clear a path Where all loads lead Only the narrow road Leads us where We must be accused of narrow-mindedness I know my...
Author - Obakanse S. Lakanse
Obakanse Lakanse, poet, teacher and literary essayist holds a B.A in English and an M.A in Literature-in English. He has published his poems and essays in some of the country’s best-selling newspapers and on Africanwriter.com
SIX DATES Another Date: the wind blows your name at me I breathe your name into a storm, and it snaps it still I chew on your name and it melts around my mouth...
ABSTRACT No valuation of any nation’s literature is final. There invariably comes a certain period in a nation’s evolution in which a call for the revaluation...
THE WATCHMAN’S GATE Here at the gate reside all the novelties of the dark, and a poet’s dated ego Which isolate one like stone. Nothing happens here as me; I...
The whole attitude of accepting a belief unquestioningly on a basis of authority is contrary to the scientific spirit. – Bertrand Russell The only...
Tanure Ojaide’s recent designation of the poets of this generation as copycats has generated a great deal of irascible and impertinent sputtering in certain...
