Tag: POETRY

IF WE MUST DIE by Claude McKay IF WE MUST DIE by Claude McKay ~ Selected Poems If we must die, let it not be like...

I REMEMBER by Naomi Mnthali (Malawi) ~ Growing Up With Poetry I remember, Countrymen, The days of ‘Dawn Over the Land’. Of hopes and expectations When I truly...

LET ME NOT TO THE MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS by W. SHAKESPEARE (ENGLAND) ~ Growing Up With Poetry Let me not to the marriage of...

AFRICA BY David Diop (Senegal) ~ Growing Up With Poetry Africa my Africa Africa of proud warriors in the ancestral savannahs Africa of whom my grandmother sings On...

DEATH BE NOT PROUD  BY JOHN DONNE (England)) ~ Growing Up with Poetry (NECTA 2009) with reference to the poem below highlight the central theme...

A FREEDOM SONG   (BY Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye (Kenya) ~Growing Up with Poetry Atieno washes dishes, Atieno plucks the chicken, Atieno gets up early, Beds her sucks down in...

BUILDING THE NATION By Christopher H. M. Barlow (Uganda) Today I did my share In building the nation. I drove the permanent secretary To an important urgent function In...

When I think of my father, my tears roll. I lost an opportunity to join high school. To enjoy the fruits of education. Today, a beggar I’m,...

Rights of a Woman By Charles Mloka Rights of a woman, Mean entitlement of all human rights, Like the right to life, And all related rights, Such as rights...

Where there is justice truth is inseparable, Where there is fair decision there is objectivity, When you adjudicate always observe facts, To do otherwise, Your judgment will be...