Emeka Chiakwelu

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Emeka Chiakwelu

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POEM: Really, Nigeria Is Independent?

POEM: Really, Nigeria Is Independent?By Emeka Chiakwelu Arbitrary winking as set free in 1960Given a flag to hoist without metaphorGiven a national anthem to sing without clarityGiven a pledge of allegiance to recite without thoughtGiven a foreign language to speak, dream, cogitateHinged in freedom symbols devoid of significanceWhile fisted chains of bondage speaks volume, rattlingFor the eye to see, ears to hearWhere is your identity?Paraphernalia, accessories of country does not make a nationNation is organic with soul and bloodBut are you capable of nuanced thoughts?Too complicated for a simpleton to comprehendWhat do you know about Independent?What do you know…

Poem: We were all Jews

We were all Jews By Emeka Chiakwelu The surpassing mind of thought bowering our collective historyThere goes again reminiscing on the yester years of anguishWe did not chose the history of oppression, it landed on our backsBut somehow, someway it became our historyA hell of years to recollect, remember, cogitateSetting aside of blues dropped, situated in winter airDrowned by darkness, fabricated by a treacherous mindWhat a wicked mind? Worse than a wicked mind wangling at nightA humiliation came from a diabolical mind, hatched in a stone bowlWhile they sleep at morning, deadly night of destruction comes Muted breath that hatred…

COVID-19 Cash Transfer: Why Southerners in Muhammadu Buhari’s Cabinet Should Resign -- Former Presidential Candidates

Third Force Forum (3FF)-The Coalition of Former Presidential Candidates and Aspirants in Nigeria - have issued a below Press Release that asked Southerners in Muhammadu Buhari’s Cabinet to Resign. Adversity Introduces a Nation to Itself It is with profound sadness that we the undersigned, former Presidential Candidates and Aspirants, under the auspices of the “Third Force Forum”, arose from an emergency meeting, in the week ending April 10, 2020, to address the below matters to all Nigerians: Pursuant to the federal government’s lopsided distribution of COVID-19 palliative “Cash Transfers” across Nigeria, through the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, with a distribution formula…

Poem – What is Africa…. Shithole?

Poem – What is Africa…. Shithole?By Emeka ChiakweluAncient landscape of body, mind and spiritNoble Humanity of innovation, experience and actionWere you not there in the genesis ?Relegated as the edged narrative in bondageDestruction of mind was deadlier than bodyDemolition odour of toxic hydrogen sulfideodour of defeat , smell of capitulationever tired of sleeping in the middle of the daysuerly! called Africa plenty namesjunglelazyniggernow called shitholesadly you know me notthose adjectives represent me notcompilation of thoughts shift actionswords and actions are relatedbut actions and words are not samehands are there to do the worksfeet were drained by cottons of the fieldsenslavement…

POEM: Ikemefuna

Ikemefuna By Emeka Chiakwelu (A sacrificial lad in Things Fall Apart) Moisten forest mesmerized by repugnant darknessThoughts wandering from dawn to sunsetFrom where will the darkness emergedFor in the mind of the hero lies cowardice and maliceBut you said he was fearless, a crusader heroThe hour pillage with darkness arrivesTime has come for action to cogitate Profound thinking for the cowardsWho told you so, you simpletonWithout thinking, how can meaningful action speaksYou cannot obliterate a destine eventThe hour has comeWhere is Ikemefuna - a lad of innocence?Clothed with guilt and revengeWhere are the arrows ?And where are the swords ?We…

POEM - A Job interview

POEM - A Job interview By Emeka Chiakwelu It was chilly morning - a baked oasis of pending hope journey to success never doubted the studious mind time to step in as bold and courageousNot when the boiling cup of coffee has been subduedNobody is going to wait for the starbucks line to rescindAs I came to the door it was spotty of doubtsdo I say good morning first or do I wait to say something first a minor case for morning but has a way of making fools to be cluelessdepart from your sage mentality for wisdom belongs to…

A Poem - God Bless Texas - Standing strong against Harvey

God Bless Texas - Standing strong against Harvey By Emeka Chiakwelu A meddling dew night Disastrous darkness shrouded in duplicityDestabilizing wind deepen with wrecking flood But what are you?Wind, rain and Yes a flood - a voracious evil Multidimensional devilish characterHouston is in its place – beautiful and evergreenSo is our TexasA beauty that beckons the singing of angelsThen the enemy cameRoaring like a mountain lionIt came as a windIt came as rainIt came as floodOur LORD set a bulwarkBecause whom our LORD has blessed cannot be cursedCreating a bulwark against the enemyTexas triumphed – Yes Houston shinesWe came to…

Senator Hillary Clinton Triumphs and Sen. Sanders conceded in the Debate

Senator Hillary Clinton has finally gained back the elusive Big Mo; Yes! The Big momentum and the thrill are back again in her camp. The last night CNN Democratic Party presidential debate was a gift to her and stellar was her performance. Unlike the wary Senator Clinton of the past, she looked happy and joyful without rancor and bitterness. She appeared more like a friendly neighbor than as a yesterday and overused politician that is pestering everybody for recognition and acknowledgment. Her sense of entitlement was totally waned and her emerging personality as a trusted friend was transparent. With a…

Republic Of The Mind And Thralldom Of Fear

I have a cloud of sadness within me as I speak. It has to do with an absence, a non-event which, both as a product in itself and as the product’s fate, could easily stand – among similar testimonies – as symbolic of the mission of this gathering, and a number of others like it, at least in all societies which value the exertion of the mind and products of the imagination. Before I state what that non-event is, I wish to emphasize very strongly that this is not meant as an indictment of this Book Fair of which…

World Economic Forum: Delivering on the Hopeful African Promise

“Keep hope alive,” a mantra propagated by United States Civil Right leader, Rev. Jesse Jackson, when he was campaigning to become the first Black President of America. Although he failed short of his ambition, yet his hopeful dream was kept alive and eventually Barack Obama became the first Black President of United States. This scenario can be liken to a hopeful Africa which at this point time is in transition, and arguably with Africa ascending economic buoyancy the future of the continent is hopeful and promising. As World Economic Forum gathering in South Africa took off, the focus…