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Daily Archives: June 30, 2010

Poetry

4 POEMS | By Ayo Sogunro

Posted on June 30, 2010 by ayosogunro • Leave a comment

1. THE CITY AT NIGHT The moon doesn’t shine on this city. The sky is like a darkened glass Sheeted above overreaching spires. We stretch out our eyes—rooftops everywhere. The neon lights are a pale copy Of nature’s sweeping lucent. But you and I can steal a retreat Row across the lagoon beneath the dark … Continue reading →

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THE PARADOXICAL LIFESTYLE OF THE AVERAGE NIGERIAN IS THE SUM OF THIS BOOK... My relentless pursuit of an understanding of the survival abilities of the average Nigerian in a system that is definitely dysfunctional. Some of us complain, some of us protest, some of us go spiritual and still many others go material, and also a few of us turn to the arts for solace—we write, not to cure other people of madness, but to avoid going mad ourselves…

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Death in the Dawn, a short play adapted from Wole Soyinka's poem of the same name, is a tragicomic exploration of Nigerian social values through the passionate interaction of some unlikely debaters.

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