For Sally
In a world that is continuously flattened
Frontiers are being more tightened
...
If you look at the mirror
What you see is your image not mine
If I look at the mirror
What I see is my image not yours
...
For Judith Ann Walker
The gracious brick coloured city
Of traditional eminence and status
...
From non existence to existence
A meeting space
From existence to non existence
A parting space
...
In memory of Ruqayya
I hate goodbyes, for long goodbyes
Are painful and they hurt
...
FOR MARTINE CHRISTIN
On one side stands the hill of power
On the other the light of learning
...
Mathematics tends to be tick
Although it makes me sick
Even when I study it for a week
Figures do make me weak
...
A community of nations of the world
Where every member is a family member
Where every member is a stakeholder
A community where we are all humans
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Mubarak Just Go, it is time
That’s what Egyptians are saying
But you don’t seem to understand
...
The mirror once told me that
My face was smooth and cute
My chin as bare as the Sahara
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Tradition it is becoming
When power is snatched from your hands
When your influence is gone
When you no longer have a say
...
She came into my life
After my mind had been conquered
She waited and observed
Patiently, waited and studied
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I was born 40 years ago and have earned a Bachelors, Masters and Doctorate degree in Geography. I am married with kids. I currently teach Geography at the Bayero University Kano, Nigeria. I am a bilingual writer, writing in Hausa and English languages. I write fiction (mostly in Hausa language) , poetry and children books.)
Global Village
Global village
Though we are all human
we are made to be different
by forces beyond our clout
Yet they want remake us
in a new image of their choice
in a village too big to be safe
The world they now call
a single village in the globe
with a big brother to match
As long as we are second class
within that large village fashioned
we would be subjected to
someone’s standards
someone’s culture
someone’s technology
someone’s understanding
someone’s world view
someone’s theories and concepts
They try hard in harder ways
to make us part of that village
but we know we are different
and shall strive to leave outside
that fashioned unsafe village