Tell me what the name aluu means?
I hear the sky whisper ‘abomination’
A strange Land- ‘aluu’.
A land I know not.
The ground that never swallowed
my placenta.

A strange land I was sojourned.
The same sand I walked on.
In the quest for knowledge.

In the pursuit for mental liberation,
I met my end. The desired end I dreamt
of was shattered by a people within.

I prayed for a fruitful day at dawn
Instead I was offered a bitter tale.
I struggled to but couldn’t tell.
The same people within.

Oh! How my blood turns cold in
my helpless watch. My blood cried
for hope as each stick hits my scalp
Oh! Their scream for death suppresses
my heart beat. My unclothedness was made

public with shame as my cover.

My unclothedness meant nothing to me;
all I cared was to be heard. All

ears was deaf but the whispers
of death.

No hope is all I hear;
helpless is all I see in the

weakening lid of my friends.

Our soul paths in same way Mama,
I cried for the love I felt.
I outgrown again Papa,
I yearned for your spank than these
barbarians on me.

Did God watch too or was heartbroken
again for his own creation?
Did mama feel her heart melt as I painfully

transformed into a ghost?

Would my sin be matched with my own
kind of death? This is my Golgotha.


The machete to my head,
the tyres around my neck,
The scream from my soul,
my joy and pain, my faith, My curse,
my destiny, my forgiveness, my spit,
my urine, my tears, my blood.
A land I know not, ALUU took it all
Mama please do something
Papa! Papa!! Papa!!!
A strange Land took it all.

THIS IS DEDICATED TO ALL THE FAMILIES WHO
LOST THEIR CHILDREN IN ALUU COMMUNITY
IN PORT-HARCOURT.

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