Opinion: For Nigeria At 59, By Niyi Osundare
Some hail her as Africa’s GiantShe blights her people with needless painWhile others make, they prefer to fakeA land long lost in subservient woodsWho fritter our flairs and drain our dreamsShe leaves
the world ever so dismayedIts kernel is hard as a seasoned nutis one of Africa’s foremost poets and a Distinguished Professor of the University of New Orleans , where he teaches in the English Department.
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