Friday, July 13, 2012

GOING POETIC…WOLE SOYINKA


Today being the 78 th birthday of our great Nobel Laureate Professor Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka. Lest we forget our own Kongi was the first African to win the Nobel Laureate in Literature.As we all know, he has written a lot of great works including popular plays like Lion and the Jewel,Kongi’s Harvest,Trials of Brother Jero to mention a few…I have also enjoyed one of his many other works like The Man Died: Prison Notes (1971) which is one of his Memoirs alongside also a vast range of works in Poetry.

On the occasion of his birthday today,I have decided to publish one of his Poems-Abiku-it is my favourite of his many poems.



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ABIKU

Written by Wole Soyinka

Wanderer child. It is the same child who dies and returns again and again to plague the mother. -Yoruba belief



In vain your bangles cast

Charmed circles at my feet

I am Abiku, calling for the first

And repeated time.


Must I weep for goats and cowries

For palm oil and sprinkled ask?

Yams do not sprout amulets

To earth Abiku's limbs.


So when the snail is burnt in his shell,

Whet the heated fragment, brand me

Deeply on the breast - you must know him

When Abiku calls again.


I am the squirrel teeth, cracked

The riddle of the palm; remember

This, and dig me deeper still into

The god's swollen foot.


Once and the repeated time, ageless

Though I puke, and when you pour

Libations, each finger points me near

The way I came, where


The ground is wet with mourning

White dew suckles flesh-birds

Evening befriends the spider, trapping

Flies in wine-froth;


Night, and Abiku sucks the oil

From lamps. Mothers! I'll be the

Suppliant snake coiled on the doorstep

Yours the killing cry.


The ripest fruit was saddest

Where I crept, the warmth was cloying.

In silence of webs, Abiku moans, shaping

Mounds from the yolk.


Written by Wole Soyinka



Keep achieving Greatness!

Emmanuel Ayeni




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Hello friends it’s nice meeting again after our last ‘tete-a-tete’ about two weeks ago…Gosh! That’s a very long time. Perhaps I should state my apologies at this point. I am working on a more organized structure for us to enjoy the thread on this blog and so our Reading frame will always look somewhat like this with updates ranging from daily to every other day. Promise..? Yeah!..

• Weekly Book Review

• Articles (EMMANDUS Inspires)

• Whats up with BOOKS? :What I read or I am currently reading..

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Today I wouldn’t go on without fulfilling my promise to share what I read in the month of June apart from the subject of creativity we took time to delve into.. A lot of wonderful titles appealed to me last month, however, I took time to read from different topics and authors..How to Get Rich by Donald Trump was wonderful, Understnading Vision and Ruling your World both by Bishop David O. Oyedepo were powerful, Let the Fire Fall by Pastor E.A Adeboye was so amazing, I did enjoy Doctors on Call from the Romantic Mills and Boom series, ….

I hope you will look foreward to a review soon.

As I end this piece I want to wish our spiritual mother Pastor Mrs Folu Adeboye a happy birthday as she turns 64, and also our great Nobel Laureate,Prof. Wole Soyinka as he turns 78 today. Happy Birthday to two great personalities. Once again, I send you great greetings from the entire Inspirational House of Emmandus.

Go and achieve greatness!

Emmanuel Ayeni




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