University of Benin English and Literature fresh graduate, Godwin Henry Osaigbovo also known as Pa Shakespeare recently made history through his world-class literary work entitled AFRICANA.

Read it below:


Africana

"Our forebears broke kolanuts
And offered prayers
To the benevolent maker,
Whose name varied from one tribe to another.
They lived in peace and harmony."

This was way before
The meek white missionaries
Made landing on our shores.


Africana
They condemned our customs and traditions.
They said our ways were primitive.
So they burnt down our shrines
And in its stead,
They gave us their three C's.
(Christianity, civilization and commerce)


Africana
These white saviours, in their glowing white robes
Baptised our forebears
In the name of the Father, his Son and his Holy Spirit.
Whilst our fore-elders learnt how to pray,
They formed a government,
And on our natural Resources they preyed.

Africana
Albeit their government lynched our forebears.
In the church,
Both the oppressed and their oppressors
Screamed amen.
From two conspicuous separated rows;
The salvation bringers occupied the front seats
The back seats, sanctified for the blacks.
And they said their God was impartial.


Africana
They captured, tortured and shipped
Our forebears to the americas.
To work their cane plantations,
Cotton fields, paddy fields, sugar plants.
The unfortunate ones, thrown overboard
To swim Frank's ocean.

Africana
And many centuries after their first landing.
The descendants of former slaves,
Rose from their slumber and fought for uhuru.
This freedom many willingly lay down their lives...
And when at last, they declared us independent,
Our struggle for survival begun.



Godwin Henry Osaigbovo Pa Shakespeare

SPEAREPOETRY™




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Thank you very much for your time

Awesome piece I must confess..
Big ups my man JOD

I still thank God for slavery tho

Nice job, as a literary work it would have been beta if he had written the poem in a professional standard not d beginner style he used eg words like where should have been we're, here should be er.
That way his piece would have been more valued, because non literature student won't understand it without review and summary.
Keep it up, nice job once again.

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glory419:
Nice job, as a literary work it would have been beta if he had written the poem in a professional standard not d beginner style he used eg words like where should have been we're, here should be er.
That way his piece would have been more valued, because non literature student won't understand it without review and summary.
Keep it up, nice job once again.

Thank you very much for your constructive criticism, but you know this is poetry and a poet is free to play with and on words... You can view other poems from the writer at www.spearepoetryi.

lordpherow98:
Awesome piece I must confess..
Big ups my man JOD

I still thank God for slavery tho

Thanks alot �

awesome