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NIGERIA IS A BOOK
WRITTEN
BY JOY EKPO
There was a country
Made up of black people with simple
nature, but became objects of imperial enrichment .
Their entitlements been overtaken by
industrial men, who gave little token in exchange for sons and daughters
Yes Nigeria is a book
Which will be read over and over till
Messiah comes
Unfolding the storms of servitude and
the quest to drink freedom waters
Legends were the caption
Yes Nigeria is an epic book for history
Written in patriotic chapters
flipping through pages of harmony
We were a family,
And nationality knew no cultural
boundaries
Yes I was Igbo, you were Hausa and she
was Yoruba, but we were together
Not until 1966 when crisis began a new
chapter
Witnessing the directing of another
story
Power was the razor
The razor initiating home grown slavery
Which still remains the reality
With tribalistic conscience wounding
the placenta of our mother land
Today we cry
Tomorrow we weep
cattle turns ransoms for human life
As religion becomes a yardstick to
survive
And place of citizenship the regret on
everyone's lips
"If my parents were Hausa I would
have gotten this job".
Autodemocray of no party system
partying in our system
Artificial leadership with no
friendship to it makers
What Went Wrong is the question that
has already been answered even though it still begs for more answers
Is it our ignorance?
The greed that desires all to itself
Or the smartness that knows exactly
what is is doing?
We must solve this question now
And do something Immediately afterwards
For God forbids the unborn generation
sings this bitter song
We must move on for a reformation
We are ready !
Ready Nigerian youth give us a matching
song
A pen or a pencil let's rewrite this
book
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