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I Know a Country

...I know a country, With three set of citizens, The rich, The well fed slaves, And the hungry free people. I know a country, Where graduates are jobless with buried hopes, In this country, so......Read the rest...

Categories: underdevelopment, discrimination, slavery,
Form: Free verse

We Have Left Home

...We have left home! To countries where our fundamental human rights are respected and valued. We have left home! Because our leaders got money for politics, But can't fund our colleges and unive......Read the rest...

Categories: underdevelopment, africa,
Form: Free verse

I Have Been Sitting Here

...I've been sitting here, Like a famished and destituted loner, Watching the irrevocable past and the uncertain future, The hands of time moved slower than the snail, As if I'm seeing from the pale......Read the rest...

Categories: underdevelopment, corruption, poverty,
Form: Free verse

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In My Hood

...In my hood Each man lives for himself Screams for help are louder than music But people listen to the music instead Fire extinguishers filled with kerosene Never can tell what made you burn I......Read the rest...

Categories: underdevelopment, community, environment,
Form: Lyric

The Promises of White Elephant

...This might not be a pleasant flow of appropriate language A somewhat complicated and abstruse diction Maybe, a puerile illusion… You think so? Imagine and picture that clearly Because if in our ......Read the rest...

Categories: underdevelopment, africa, depression, discrimination, fate,
Form: Free verse

Inside Green Africa

...Inside the green land of Africa An idea was born in a gentle mind It grew up to develop like a hyacinth With pure water and no huge mud Inside the huge green land Jinja Africa, Europe plans t......Read the rest...

Categories: underdevelopment, africa, appreciation, creation, education,
Form: ABC

Corruption

...A monster that refuses to die A shame that lingers on A menace to the society Impenetrable to bullet Immune to euthanasia Insulated against electrocution The root cause of our underdevelopment ......Read the rest...

Categories: underdevelopment, 10th grade, africa, angst,
Form: Verse

The Nature's Cry

...Do we blame God? The environment was once cool Cool enough for our good Till industrialisation brought its mud Growth improved, thanks to technology Mechanisation took over all Our thoughts,......Read the rest...

Categories: underdevelopment, earth, nature,
Form: Quatrain

Nkporo

...Nkporo, my wonderful Nkporo, The land of great hills and mountains. Nkporo, my Nkporo, whom my mother dance of, Father died to pretect you from the Iboms. I have not fosaken you because your Blo......Read the rest...

Categories: underdevelopment, africa, age, art,
Form: Ballad

Ignorance

...In darkness, the mind comes short Gullible to any item offered, and Not an excuse for self underdevelopment Obnoxious in the gathering of knowledge Rationality ......Read the rest...

Categories: underdevelopment, education, people,
Form: Acrostic

Bad Banking Makes Hope Sinking

...Why Country suffers underdevelopment? Why her public suffer unemployment? Bad banking is the main reason So milk comes not, but poison Some bank men daily toil They only preserve the soil Many rel......Read the rest...

Categories: underdevelopment, on work and working,
Form: Couplet

Colour Me Black, Colour Me Beautiful

...Africa My beloved Africa Africa The cradle of humanity Civilization starting in the Nile valley Africa the cradle of writing Hieroglyphics dating back from Egypt Yet Africa brags no literatur......Read the rest...

Categories: underdevelopment, dedication, friendship, inspirational, me,
Form: Burlesque