Amusa Yusuf Owolabi’s three more poems


The Honourable


They say there is nothing honourable in your character

You only mind your family

The electorates are no more important to you

You acquire different kinds of vehicles

You have houses in all the cities

You often change your wardrobe

You chase different sizes of damsels

You hardly visit your constituency

You convert your constituent allowance to your personal money

You engage in meaningless empowerment

Are you really honourable?

Doses Of Hardship


Things are extremely hard in the land

Money is scarce

Petrol is insufficient

Electricity is epileptic


Roads are bad

Kidnapping is rampant

Insecurity is everywhere

Corruption worsens the situation


Living is like being in hell

Government does not know what to do

Everybody is confused

Everyone demands for solutions

We are waiting for messiah to clear the mess.

The Westernised African


Where is your indigenous language?

Where is your native dresses?

Where is your traditional religion?

You have become an ape

Foreign things attract you


You feel comfortable to have lost contact with your father's culture

You are delighted to promote other people's culture

You have been colonized mentally and spiritually

You don't belong to where you claim


Indeed!! you are an outright distorted being

You are completely alien in your father's land.


Amusa, originally born in Ghana, is a Nigerian with a passion for creative writing. He holds a master’s degree in Theatre Arts from the University of Ibadan and is an emerging writer with a growing interest in storytelling and the literary arts.

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