Title Holders. Poem by Tony Adah

A simple name is
Demeaning to a title holder
I do not know what the citizens
Of my country think
About adding titles
To their names
But I think
There is a lacuna yet to fill.

A man who holds a Ph.D
Becomes as illiterate as
The village chief he wants to be
And a village chief desires a Ph.D
He purchases without swottin' for.
And this is what reigns here
In my country
Where titles are sold
Where titles are bought
And where murder is common
For the sake of titles.