Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Justice Does Not Live Here Anymore (Poem)

Though famously the title of a famous work by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, I cannot help saying "Weep not child" to you, Chidi, for there was never justice in that land, in the first place! If I am wrong, tell me an era when political JUSTICE prevailed in that land. Take consolation in the fact that the present merely represents a continuation of the past--a past filled with tears of the children of God who were continually robbed of political justice.

On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 8:54 PM Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:

By Chidi Anthony Opara

Let me say my say now

That the tide have ebbed,

Now that the cacophony

Of celebration of thievery

Have ceased,

Now that the halt

Of the people's march

To the dignity of choice

Have become history.

Let me say my say now.

On this land

Peace is an indigent damsel,

Too indigent

To cover her half-nakedness.

She is continually raped

By horny hooligans

Hired by the overlords,

Complacency 

Blames her for the rapes.

Complacency

Have chased away

That old blind woman,

Who dispensed judgments

Without fear or favour.

Justice

Does not live here anymore.

(Poem presented as social service, all rights reserved)

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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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Sincerely,

Victor O. Okafor, Ph.D.

Professor and Head

Department of Africology and African American Studies

Eastern Michigan University

Email: vokafor@emich.edu

Tel: 734.487.9594

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