Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - How Nigerians 'buy' doctorate degrees from mushroom institutions — Features —

Painfully beautiful poem

On Thu, Dec 5, 2024, 3:09 PM 'Bayo Omolola' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Emi Lo Kan: Where Can I get One

"Cash and Carry" at the ever-expansive degree-spinning markets

Filled with hollows,

And wheel barrows

without loads!

and  cultivating furrows

without seeds!

Of awkwardness like madness!

and brows without values

And and legs without movement, 

But only empty box of the frontal lobe.

What can't an envelope do?

What can't gluttons devour?

As grinning faces rush

and spring without any springboard,

"Where can I get one?"

"Here! Come if you can't get any there?
Do you have money?"

"Yes, I do. How much?"

"Get your ear close to my mouth."

"Got you!" (Smiles and chuckles!)

"Deal or no deal?

Racket of the toothless crickets

Noise turning to meanings 

Meanings turning to noise.

Isn't that something else?

Breathing without oxygen!

Breathing with carbon dioxide!

Isn't that something!

"Where I can I get one?"

Internal voice of many

As one market day fades and another opens!

"Where can I get one?"

"Keep looking until you get it!"

It -endless, loud rackets of the crickets debasing values.

Báyọ̀ Ọmọlọlá

On Thursday, December 5, 2024 at 08:21:09 AM EST, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

https://guardian.ng/features/how-nigerians-buy-doctorate-degrees-from-mushroom-institutes-professional-bodies/

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