LITERATORS' CORNER

                                                                                                            - - Ubaji Isiaka Abubakar Eazy An ill child left in a shrine to be healed by the shrine god (while the father goes in search of herbs) is found by a White Christian priest who believes the child was kept there as a sacrifice to the idol, especially as it was left there unattended. The priest supposedly rescues this child and takes him to Rome where he grows up to become a priest. The young priest hears extraterrestrial voices ordering him to seek out his roots and interprets this as God asking him to return and show the 'light' to his father and people. Me...

The Epic of Attah Ameh Oboni; The Great *Note: Attah Ameh Oboni remains; perhaps; the greatest king of the Igala people because of his magical prowess. Legend has it that the power of this king lies on the tip of his tongue which has so much efficacy so that whatever he decrees become so. How he came by such a magical power no one knows and no one may be able to tell till the end of time. They say he could look at a flowering green tree and command it to go dry and it would do so immediately, he had once poured sand over a river and commanded that a bridge appear and so it happened. Attah Ameh Oboni had enormous metaphysical powers and many of his followers became afraid of him. As the story goes, he was reported to the then colonial master who wanted to usurp him but could not as Ameh Oboni was not also ready to reliquish his authority to the colonial masters. In the wisdom of the people, no man however great should aspire to be greater than the society that created it, but Attah...

Land of Wonders Gandollar is infuriated! His cousin, Gorilla, has proven to be smarter. Gandollar receives the loot himself,  Hides wads of dollars in bulbous babarigas His froggy cheeks and cola stained teeth Give away smiles of contentment As the spy camera peeps at him. His kinsman, Gorilla, fared better It went for the money But was careful enough to avoid cameras Now, it plans to buy a forest of bananas! Gan thinks it an insult That Gor should prove smarter than him With the same initials and looks Why should Gor be better than Gan? Gan now wants Gor probed; I hear the police are prepared to arrest Gor too!  I have lived too long And palm nuts now sprout from my head-- To think I would live to hear the unthinkable! Kano is a land of wonders which Produces human and animal heisters. © Ubaji Isiaka Abubakar Eazy 2019