I wrote something for the youth protest going on in Nigeria.. I’m a Nigerian, I’ve been stopped once by SARS and I talk about it calmly but in the moment, I was scared…. I didn’t even tell my parents. This is a poem about our anger:
#EndSars
To sit here and write something
Honestly, that’s easy
You all out there protesting
All of you deserve praises
To everyone retweeting
Don’t stop, let’s keep fighting
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Saw people supporting the protest with their talents
Till they get it, don’t stop, don’t relent
The biggest fear of being black
Shouldn’t be the fear of another who’s black
But in Nigeria, it is
No reasoning behind the violence
Rapings, killings and incompetence
Peacefully, all that we’re asking
Is an end to something unnecessary
Look, see, Notice!
No one has said ‘look at the bright side’
Because there’s no fucking silver lining
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End SARS, End SWAT
No compromise, no respite
Stop killing us out of spite
Creatives, not criminals
My generation are not cowards
Stop killing our dreamers
You may have won the battles,
When you put wool over our eyes
But you’ll not win this war,
We’ve seen through your fucking lies
ENDSARS!!!!!, 2020
A WONDER 