BLACK COLLUSION

They say black is beautiful

Yet they mock her

They say, see that monkey

Yet we are to believe in ourselves

They say we are the future

Yet they are eating away the present

They say so black so beautiful

Yet they don't show us love

They say "oh why is she changing her pigment?"

Yet they never saw her before

They say she doesn't have confidence

Yet they never praised her

They themselves are black

Yet they never see the beauty in it

Why should we?

MY JOURNEY ACROSS THE NIGER

The landscape might escape you

If you concentrate on the gallops

But the beauty is unmistakable,

The people so foreign

Their smiles protected

The beauty is obvious in itself

But their suffering

Is worn on them like a medal.

Many of them have known

No other life.

So they know nothing about

Suffering and smiling

Just suffering and living

Most of us the visitors are so

Oblivious of their livelihood.

Here the true meaning of humanity shows

Because here,

It is humanity that is so humane,

It is

At its most natural state,

Everything here you appreciate a little more,

The realness is almost impossible.

To my friends across the Niger

That accepted a fat boy from the West.

I say daalu.

( MY DAYS IN UMUNYA CAMP series episode 1 ) A Smile With A Stranger

A smile with a stranger,
It was not so strange

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But it was so sincere,
The beauty that we could share
Under the blistering sun
In the land of the shining light.
My stranger
I don't long to know you
But that smile you shared with me

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I will forever cherish,
It wasn't your beauty
But it was the brotherhood in it.
The love you shared
When the stress was high
My stranger across the Niger
I love you
Even though I don't know you.