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WOLE SOYINKA FADES INTO NOTORIETY Written by KEMKA S. IBEJI

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A model to expectant scholars  A signpost to young activists  A dream of professors A hope of truth in the sea of lies  Fades into notoriety  Lying barefaced and unabashed? Now abhorred by teachers? Now the negatives of courage? What no one wants to be anymore? Just fades into notoriety  This 90 years is terrible  This age has been blurred  This chapter of chatter shatters  He turns to his spittle Goodness me! Becomes the scorn of kids All about him is now of jest  Abandoned to sorry tribalism  Leaving the stage in dishonour  Murdering earned reputation Can fame turn notorious? Wole Soyinka, insignificant? Let none of mine age like him  May our age never turn curse Haba Wole Soyinka!

NEVER DISSIMILAR Written by KEMKA S. IBEJI

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It's too early in the morning  Please don't cry or wail  The pressure is getting to neck You can grin or make face Yes! Feel free but never cry At the land of bar beach  I lived, loved and earned  Yes! I learnt so much yonder  I know the land like my home  He was popular and worked null  Don't cry yet, let's get to dusk  I said of Papa 8 signature cap He knows no good thing of it  Leading by dragging and taking  Painting heavens with empty words I mean Bala, Blue, Bulaba  It's on you brethren whoever you think  Early in the morning tomorrow  Just as I check myself and you  Let it be true that I'm intact  The extortionists are here  They came at night I know not why  Don't cry please, I hate tears  One day soon  If nothing is done  I mean as soon as now  Our breathing will be taxed. But I told you this  Still early in the morning  Don't let me see tears  It's never diss...