The words of Peter Akinwunmi (Peter Ak'i)
I’m gonna be famous, I am. I’ve got it all sorted, gathered all the resources required for my master plan. No question how I’ll do it, I’ll improve myself as a poet; then, when the popularity of poetry surges; when light-shining poets emerge as prophets with clarity of vision and ways of speakin’ that elucidate […]
Love is a many splendoured thing. Holding hands, kissing, romantic violins. It’s thoughtfulness and patience, can be a virtue or a sin, but best as the exultant twang of bouncing bedsprings. Now, please don’t think me fetishist, a perv, or over flirty it’s just that sex didn’t go away when I got past thirty. I’ve […]
I have cried in rage, remembering the age when a black man’s every bone was legally owned – by white men. Taken for greed across the sea to grow sugarcane, tobacco and cotton – the weak and diseased tossed into the sea – they built a trade so inhuman and rotten. Supported and justified by […]
The words of Peter Akinwunmi (Peter Ak'i)