Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's Quote

Na wa! Oga Chidi the revolutionary poet! So, writing poetry from the street means your poetry is automatically revolutionary? And those who write from the academia write puerile poems? Which kin tin be this? 

How effective do you think your poetry is? 

Who your poetry epp? 

Big big gramma 

Wey no fit make dawa

For those wey hala for epp.

Poetry is elitist. It doesn't get to the yawning tables of the masses because it is not needed there. Food is what tables are meant for. Hence, your difference between street and academia poetry collapses into elite distanciation from what really.matters on the street.

I wrote this verse

In the comfort of my room

While the roar of the masses

Tells of the pandemonium about.

I diligently noted the turmoil 

And went back to my coffee:

I am a poet of the street

And my verses will carry the noise!

Adeshina 

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On Sunday, May 3, 2020, 12:43 AM, Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:

I write poetry of protest because I came from the streets, unlike colleagues who came from the academia/intelligentsia.

CAO.

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Chidi Anthony Opara is a "Life Time Achievement" Awardee, Registered Freight Forwarder, Professional Fellow Of Institute Of Information Managerment, Africa, Poet and Publisher of PublicInformationProjects

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