Poems

Oh Pius, here lies your crest Your life, you lived with zest With piety, you worshipped the truth With bravery, your armoured steel of suit When all around you feigned [Read more]

As you walk through the valley of the shadow of death Deep in the belly of THE ANTHILLS OF THE SAVANAH Etched on the mind was, AN IMAGE OF AFRICA [Read more]

  With fist of fury, clenched in despair, I raised my hands to heaven in supplication. With teary eyes and swollen cheeks, we ask for divine explanation. In cries of [Read more]

You pierce the clouds with your smiling spear Your flicker of light that brings out the cheer In the moonless night of your dark less daze From the bleary eyed [Read more]

Abdulai Mansaray, author Hunted, shackled, braced and shipped From the land of the gods and baobab bliss Down in the bowels of my watery coffins To the land of the [Read more]

I was born free, free to live, and free to die Shackled from the rings of your confederated past When your X men were Axe lords of my slavish past. [Read more]

With tainted love, you veiled your hate With graded bore, you buried your shade Of cupid’s dart, and plied your rake To break my heart, with your fake face.   [Read more]

You trampled the earth, as you travelled the world. Traversed the sea of death, but then you came to rest. On a mound of dirt, your ancestors laid to rest [Read more]

Wraithlike and blanketed in misery They crouch, wriggle, and crawl in stealth Huddled and bundled in human stench From the assembly of war, into a cauldron of hate.   A [Read more]