Tayo Pete Olafioye
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A Carnival of Looters
Missions abroad
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Oh world: we thank you

A Stroke of Hope
Foreward
Tribute to the stealth bomber
At that moment of departure
Let me trot again
Now that I am well
My epitaph - whenever
Confessions of the moral lepers

Arrowheads To My Heart
Monument to madness
Brain-drain in Africa
Feminine mystique
My husband has gone crazy
Who am I?
Siblings
The institute of rumors
Rienhartsen's abduction
Oh Harry

Ogoni's Agonies
Ogoni people, the oil wells
of Nigeria

Parliament of Idiots
One day
Azikiwe's curse
The impeachment

The Fish Rots From the Head
Uganda massacres of 2000
Sierra Leone
Rwanda & Burundi
The music of my heart
I will love you

Ubangiji
Sometimes
My edenic violet
On the retirement of my shoe
Aiyelala

Sorrows of a Town Crier
African envoys
Harmattan Christmas
The workshop of madness
Marital infidelity
Epilogue for tomorrow
Wedding ring
American satire

Grandma's Sun
excerpt from novel

Article
Who Killed Cicero?

Confessions of the moral lepers - part I
(excerpt)

When blood rained
Darkness stifled the land
Anomie mated succubus
They brought forth their offspring: mayhem.

Nobody lives here anymore
To sniff the bonfires of decay.
When the teeth fall
The nose succumbs to all
The beasts amidst us
Scavenged dungheaps for cadavers
They had sown
To stay the reign of
The most satanic pope of Islam
The ayatollah of Christendom
The Khalif of ritual death
Called abacha of Nigeria.
He suffers a spiritual malnutrition.

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