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So when I came back, everyone decided I was foreign - and not just because my accent was thick and faltering over the sir that we were supposed to call Mr Iddi, instead of sah,...
So when I came back, everyone decided I was foreign - and not just because my accent was thick and faltering over the sir that we were supposed to call Mr Iddi, instead of sah,...
It started like this The Doc said I have a syndrome When the syndrome comes, it sets my spine on fire, my intestines go into a pull and shrink mode, my mind forgets what it...
In 2016, my body is still a battlefield Bloody, lying, a lying carcass, they always tell me I am lying Even when what happened happened to me They always say it was someone...
The fat graduand The laughing ugly girl But you would have laughed it off And your father wouldn’t have stormed into college, with plain clothes policemen No arresting a...
I am not sorry anymore, world The internet you shoved down my throat And the grotesque knowledge you dropped Onto my stunting spine taught me that To be a woman, my forte...
Oh to be young and 24 In love and confused ‘Child’ on the inside ‘Adult’ on the outside Sure, yet unsure Of a future well thought out Which now crumbles beneath your...
It rains in the city Sleet drives against the windows Of the immobile fourty-two seater And water flows on the tarmac like a river We are jam-packed like sardines in the...
Let them come let them go If they ask let them know Sometimes you don't get to choose Sometimes It is ours to lose Were it less than life and miles that ran between us...
To the dude that entered the elevator after me, I'm sorry The silent breath of death that escaped my pants into the tiny gas chamber I left you in, was unfair and unwarranted...
(Gospel Choir Ringback Tone as phone dials) Hallo, Ma! Yes, it is me I know it is late Its 2am Can you hear me clearly I am still awake Ma Hahaha… No, I am a city...
https://soundcloudcom/echezonachukwu-nduka/listen-spoken-word Listen That night I walked away from Your queries and accusing eyes, The flap-flap sound of my...
Father, The uncle in whose hands you left us Is cannibalizing us He has turned us into animals Led us to a foreign land For his enemies to slaughter And while we scream so...