USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Hollow Laughter

The Hollow Laughter

Would a land that devours its inhabitants

Not prefer a mass grave

To a jovial ilo?

A country is its citizens,

Not a wretched map

Drawn by a bigand.

A country breathes, laughs, eats

And drinks. A country grows

And becomes a country.

Not a downcast land

Ravaged by AK47

And stuttering machine guns

Not a neighborhood-gone

A giANT is the tale,

Stinking still with death all over...

Once upon a time,

Human beings were human.

-- Obododimma Oha.

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B.A.,First Class Honours (English & Literary Studies);
M.A., Ph.D. (English Language);
M.Sc. (Legal, Criminological & Security Psychology);
Professor of Cultural Semiotics & Stylistics,
Department of English,
University of Ibadan.

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