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Salisu Ahmed Koki is Hausa by tribe, Nigerian
by citizenship. He is also a Kano-based
ScriptNet UK/Bournemouth University trained
Scriptwriter/Filmmaker, a Journalist and a Poet.
He wrote and directed a short film on girl-child
education for British Council/UNESCO and have
written several articles off and online.
by citizenship. He is also a Kano-based
ScriptNet UK/Bournemouth University trained
Scriptwriter/Filmmaker, a Journalist and a Poet.
He wrote and directed a short film on girl-child
education for British Council/UNESCO and have
written several articles off and online.
GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
(In memory of victim of Nigeria’s plane crashes)
The news broke out, the reality we deny
When the truth finally reigned, the void lay ripe
Uprooted we became, our mouths dried
For this solemn defeat, we grumbled and cried,
To mourn the people that prematurely died,
When the big BELLVIEW Bird flew and dived,
Into the bush and claimed innocent lives.
As if that was not enough,
Our sins of been daft and aptly corrupt,
Earned us another loss in less than a month,
The SOSOLISO eagle runs mad and hid in a hole,
Portharcort here we come with another record,
Of human negligence we can no longer afford.
Argungu, Waziri so goes the death toll,
This forced tears to crawl and roll,
On our cheeks as if on protest from a pond,
Yes the tears and the dead ones are gone,
But not forever from our blood pumping zone,
They are gone but never forlornly forgotten.
WARS IN AFRICA
Times of great tumult
Wreckage in every city, every slump
Bloodshed that's difficult to curb
Those wars and chaos defying our hopes!
That dance of life
Of political blunders and missteps
And militants soaring like pests
Agents of despair, agents of death!
Imagine the coffee 'Ivory Cost'
Civilization was once her host
In spite of the cream in it, it bursts
Into flames of ethnic rivalry and curse!
Imagine Liberia without Taylor
Sovereignty free of terror
And masses defying needless squalor
Let good governance buy for us honor.
Why the pains, why the sorrow
Spewed by Janjaweed and the Kode Sanko's?
Slained are many swallowed by the rancor
Peace in Africa it is that we'll always hope for.
KNOWLEDGE-BASED SOCIETY
Attaining that flawless solitude
Where ideas soar and sprout
From beneath defining our thoughts
Distraction of any sort it is we fought
Growth of intellect it is we sought.
Creating a knowledge-based society
Where people relate with piety
And fertile 'Think Thanks' forming parties
Platforms that can strengthen our democracy
Doing away with the obnoxious autocracy!
Pure education is power
Through it we can build towers
Of great men churning out great ideas
Building a nation that'll wipe out our tears
And quarantining our collective fears
Coming from deprivation that span years.
CHILD SOLDIERS
In mixed confusions they were born
What they'd missed is the needed fun
That comes along with good rearing
In the hands of parents that are God-fearing.
Theirs is a life of abuse, and
Backbreaking labor they can’t refuse
Hawking and begging on our streets
An ugly trend draining their spirits!
Out they'll move searching for hope
Piercing every chance, every kind of job
With little luck they will remain at lost
Then will come the rebels with the lure to quench the lust!
Lure of adventure it is
A drought of choice in their vicinity
That forced them to ruin every city
With guns they cheaply got flaring away their piety.
They kill and maim without mercy
Raining down death as if fulfilling a prophecy
Lets arrest this menace now before it closed on us
Littering our streets with soulless corpses.
UN SYSTEM AND SUDAN
1948 marked the start
Of a motion picture in parts
Those cream of nations fighting evil craft
And the looming dangers of organized graft
Now the movie is moving in reverse.
The overall mission is to revert
A trend that has since defied a depart
Of evil men and women in an orgy concert
Tearing apart every resolution in place, every pact.
The idea is to at least douse
The rising chaos that seems to sag
Member nations as they fought
Bloody wars with less comfort.
Let us give these wars a second thought
Aren't they draining the world poor
Billions of dollars already in Iraq and still the chaos soars
Flaring hatred, rendering many vagabond?
The prevailing Darfur war was damned
There, our collective arguments got jammed
Are the dare devil Janjaweed stately crowned
To unleash a reign of terror on innocent blacks?
Rain of questions still pour
Heavy downpour of it and we are short of cure
For the barbaric acts that has already tore
And eroded the shores of peace, indeed a moral detour.
(In memory of victim of Nigeria’s plane crashes)
The news broke out, the reality we deny
When the truth finally reigned, the void lay ripe
Uprooted we became, our mouths dried
For this solemn defeat, we grumbled and cried,
To mourn the people that prematurely died,
When the big BELLVIEW Bird flew and dived,
Into the bush and claimed innocent lives.
As if that was not enough,
Our sins of been daft and aptly corrupt,
Earned us another loss in less than a month,
The SOSOLISO eagle runs mad and hid in a hole,
Portharcort here we come with another record,
Of human negligence we can no longer afford.
Argungu, Waziri so goes the death toll,
This forced tears to crawl and roll,
On our cheeks as if on protest from a pond,
Yes the tears and the dead ones are gone,
But not forever from our blood pumping zone,
They are gone but never forlornly forgotten.
WARS IN AFRICA
Times of great tumult
Wreckage in every city, every slump
Bloodshed that's difficult to curb
Those wars and chaos defying our hopes!
That dance of life
Of political blunders and missteps
And militants soaring like pests
Agents of despair, agents of death!
Imagine the coffee 'Ivory Cost'
Civilization was once her host
In spite of the cream in it, it bursts
Into flames of ethnic rivalry and curse!
Imagine Liberia without Taylor
Sovereignty free of terror
And masses defying needless squalor
Let good governance buy for us honor.
Why the pains, why the sorrow
Spewed by Janjaweed and the Kode Sanko's?
Slained are many swallowed by the rancor
Peace in Africa it is that we'll always hope for.
KNOWLEDGE-BASED SOCIETY
Attaining that flawless solitude
Where ideas soar and sprout
From beneath defining our thoughts
Distraction of any sort it is we fought
Growth of intellect it is we sought.
Creating a knowledge-based society
Where people relate with piety
And fertile 'Think Thanks' forming parties
Platforms that can strengthen our democracy
Doing away with the obnoxious autocracy!
Pure education is power
Through it we can build towers
Of great men churning out great ideas
Building a nation that'll wipe out our tears
And quarantining our collective fears
Coming from deprivation that span years.
CHILD SOLDIERS
In mixed confusions they were born
What they'd missed is the needed fun
That comes along with good rearing
In the hands of parents that are God-fearing.
Theirs is a life of abuse, and
Backbreaking labor they can’t refuse
Hawking and begging on our streets
An ugly trend draining their spirits!
Out they'll move searching for hope
Piercing every chance, every kind of job
With little luck they will remain at lost
Then will come the rebels with the lure to quench the lust!
Lure of adventure it is
A drought of choice in their vicinity
That forced them to ruin every city
With guns they cheaply got flaring away their piety.
They kill and maim without mercy
Raining down death as if fulfilling a prophecy
Lets arrest this menace now before it closed on us
Littering our streets with soulless corpses.
UN SYSTEM AND SUDAN
1948 marked the start
Of a motion picture in parts
Those cream of nations fighting evil craft
And the looming dangers of organized graft
Now the movie is moving in reverse.
The overall mission is to revert
A trend that has since defied a depart
Of evil men and women in an orgy concert
Tearing apart every resolution in place, every pact.
The idea is to at least douse
The rising chaos that seems to sag
Member nations as they fought
Bloody wars with less comfort.
Let us give these wars a second thought
Aren't they draining the world poor
Billions of dollars already in Iraq and still the chaos soars
Flaring hatred, rendering many vagabond?
The prevailing Darfur war was damned
There, our collective arguments got jammed
Are the dare devil Janjaweed stately crowned
To unleash a reign of terror on innocent blacks?
Rain of questions still pour
Heavy downpour of it and we are short of cure
For the barbaric acts that has already tore
And eroded the shores of peace, indeed a moral detour.