Wednesday 7 February 2018

The LAPIRO style: Poetry for Change

Niyi Osundare holds that poems are songs of the marketplace. this is to emphasise the simplicity of poetry and the colloquial nature of its language. Pidgin is therefore a very vital tool in passing across messages through poetry. Look at this poem about the socio-economic misery of a contemporary African country wonderfully captured in the pidgin we all can identify with.

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Cameroun Oboso


Sauvéteur chakarah, Cameroun go before!
Remé ana repé them for ngola
dang yaa nwang for di epoque
for démocracie avanceé ana
liberalisme communale.

For di tam wey politique for gros ventres
dang gi laiser faire for ministres
ana politiciens for briguêr
mandat sur mandat for ngomna ana
évacuation de la chôse publique
sans compassion ana fear for Jésus,
na yi crise économique nova temmé
for pays des grandes intéllectuelles
du dimanche sur débat.

We dey daso na for obsérvation;
make delegué régionale ana ministre d’état
tori we weda dang ereké vieux pêres them
get quelque chôse to offer pays dans lequel;
licencier na vendeur for biscuits, bita kola,
ana bonbons acoliceé for Avénue Kénnedy,
bachélier na ben-skinneur for Abakwa ana
GCE O’Level  na cutting mbanga for Penja.

Pays di bouger molo molo dans les grandes 
réalisations ana démocracie avancé
for l’âge androide ana chôrale for unité 
nationale dans le sia sia. Na yi Ngola dang 
condamné ana yi njaka them for esclavage 
moderne for Maghreb ana Asie avant 2035.


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