Once A Baboon, Still A Baboon. Poem by Motunrayo Yusuf

Author's note
The setting of this poem could be traced to the colonial days, when the British invaded African countries with the camouflage of civilization and development, but their real 'plans and plots, we were marvelled '.
The form of government most of the African countries had were bribed with money or either material things like mirror and pomade powder, which all led to 'Betrayal for a bowl of porridge '
The poem went ahead to show how Africans were taken as slaves caged with 'Thorns and chains, chains and links', having their honour and self respect stripped from them literally and figuratively. They were used as human tools to toil their land of cotton and crops
Towards the end of the poem, it was presented that even after the counter and conquer against foreign interference in their land, they are still independently dependent. They still live according to the footsteps of their colonial country.