Go Tell Our King
By Betty Abah
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yet scintillating tool to express her surprise, awe, disgust or elation at lifes realities.
These include death, corruption, oppression, environmental degradation, war,
love and elusive hope. It is a poetic potpourri of a sort, undulating in waves of sadness
and occasional delight; a harvest of a deeply creative and observant mind. Though
most of the imagery revolves around Africa, they have universal appeal. The poems
at once entice and grip you. They testify to the poetess as an emerging voice on the
African literacy scene.
Betty Abah
BETTY ABAH is a Nigerian journalist and environmentalist. She obtained a degree in English and Literary Studies from the University of Calabar in 1999. She practised with frontline Nigerian newsmagazines Newswatch and TELL, and briefl y with the Rocky Mountain News in Colorado USA as an Alfred Friendly fellow. Her journalism awards include the Nigeria Media Merit Award, the Diamond Award for Media Excellence, the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowship (USA), the John Knight Health Reporting Fellowship (USA), the Kaiser Family Foundation(USA) among others. Abah is with the Environmental Rights Action. She is the author of SOUND OF BROKEN CHAINS (poetry). She is married to John, a sailor.
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Go Tell Our King - Betty Abah
Copyright © 2012 by Betty Abah.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2011962737
ISBN: Hardcover 978-1-4691-3705-6
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Contents
DEDICATION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
SONGS OF SORROW
PROLOGUE…
GO TELL OUR KING
THE WILL TO LIVE
TEARS
THE METEORS
CLOUDS
BRING BACK THE HEROES
A CERTAIN DAY
MID-DAY SLUMP
FOR DELE GIWA
VACUUMS
ANGELIC SMILES
PROLOGUE… .
PERMIT PEACE
GAZA GUYS
THE WILL TO LIVE (2)
VANQUISHED VICTORS
PANTING PLANET
PROLOGUE…
THE EARTH BLEEDS IN FURIOUS FITS
PLANET POLITICS
CRUDE WOMAN
PIPELINE PIKINS
BALLADS OF BABA-LAND
PROLOGUE
SURVIVING NIGERIA
A LETTER TO MY DAUGHTER’S TEACHER
GROWING IN SOWETO
MONTH-END MELANCHONY
HEROISM UNVEILED
WAY OF THE WORLD
BLESSED FORTRESS
KHAKI KINGS
BOOTHS AND MOBUTU
GO TELL OUR KING (II)
LIGHTS OUT
HOME-LAND
DEM GO SAY I BE WOMAN!
REGARDS
PROLOGUE…
SO NICE
FOR GESAI
CHARMS
ARRIVAL
AFTER INFERNO
FLAMES
BALMS
ANGELS
BOOMS & DOOMS
PROLOGUE…
LET ME BE
THE VOICE OF POETRY
WHEN I DIE
SPECTATOR
OBITUARY QUERY
EUTHANASIA
I CAME, I SAW…
SIGHT @ SCHIPHOL
EPILOGUE
MADNESS DISGUISED
TO THE HIGHWAY HERO
UNWANTED
CIGARETTIC IRONY
THE SURGEON’S BLADES
LOVE APART
PROLOGUE…
BEWARE, LOVE!
MIRAGE…
HER SUITOR BECAME A CHILD
HOPE CHANTS
PROLOGUE…
HOPE PRISONERS
WHIRLWINDS
LET IT BE…
SPLASH!
DEDICATION
To those gone before us;
They say time heals fast,
Why have my wounds festered?
Benja. Ameh. O’nyi. Onyela. Ogbe.
Esther Ugoh. Onyemowo V. Adache. Oyiwoja Ojibo.
Joy Osemi, Rev. Sani Simon.
I pause in the waves and wanderings,
And wonder why you went away . . . !
I heave, helpless, yet in HOPE . . .
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I am a living proof that you could climb on the shoulders of giants, and have far-flung views. I’ve been privileged to drink at the fountain of some of Nigeria’s brightest journalism masters. I live, a debtor to kindness unpayable.
My Ogas at Newswatch; Dan Agbese, Ray Ekpu, Yakubu Mohammed, Bala Dan Abu, Jossy Nkwocha (General) and Maureen Chigbo, Mercy Ette, thank you!
To my Ogas in TELL; Onome Osifor-Whiskey, Nosa Igiebor, Dele Omotunde, Ayodele Akinkuotu, Ademola Oyinlola and founding director Dare Babarinsa, thanks for our talks and for the pats!
Thank you, Bunmi Dipo-Salami, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Joe Okei-Odumakin, Reuben Abati, Jahman Anikulapo, Okey Ifionu, Ibim Semenitari, Sam Omatseye, Lekan Otufodunrin, Olu Ojewale, Godwin Haruna, Daniel Gumm, Bamidele Johnson, Sam