Non Indigenes. Poem by Tony Adah

They came home and lived with us
Ate what we eat and drank what we drink
And spoke in our very tongue
They despised them and call them names
Still we lied that we are building a nation
The beauty of which lies
In the variegation of Cultures
And unhindered movement of citizens.

Allochthonous to our place
The denizens are citizens of this place
But those chauvinists of ethnicity
Have built walls in their hearts
Calling them non indigenes
So that they and they alone
Will plunder the commonwealth
And build pudgy necks and fingers
And non indigenes are denied
Their contribution to the growth
Of our every day fledgling nation.