Abiku: The Wasted Issue Poem by Johnny Psalm

Abiku is based on a peculiar mythical beliefs among the primitive Africans as a child with the potency of perpetuating incessant death coupled with rebirth with the principal intention of tormenting the parents with constant woe.

Through the years, many distinguishable writers, I mean poets, such as the personalities of Wole Soyinka and J.P Clark have written earlier on this theme. However, the peculiar problems among other embryonic poets is that they have foiled their their inventive creativity through the explicit limitation of the respectively scope to the ideals of the past personalities. In order to be dynamic, I've decided to present this issue from the angle of African perspectives and counteracting it with scientific orthodontic evidence.

The scientists have made us realized so far that such belief is a limitation of scope, because, right then, the prevalent death occurred due to the failure of all African native doctors to provide herbs that could solve the problems of the various diseases rampant in the African continent.However, the advent of science and the intervention in African peculiar problems have made us to drop most of the make-belief traditional ideas that eat deep into the psychological disposition of most savage Africans.

Science has been able to prove that the infant high mortality rate is due to the diseases, and to establish this fact, they provided us with various drugs to divergent diseases.

Therefore, there are strands that must be discarded from African beliefs if Africa is to progress.