References: Lekki Massacre
Behavioral Objectives: At the end of this lesson, humans should be able to
define history & explain the meaning of sọrọ sókè
Previous Knowledge:
Police Brutality, EndSARS, Bad Governance
i.
the music of history glosses its tomorrow with an upcoming past
conjured by elastic young natives convening to crayon a cartograph
with an upthrust fist & a gape of the mandible like sọrọ sókè
which becomes the new lingua franca of the trigger of Africa
selah.
sọrọ sókè Yoruba
speak up English
ii.
Men of god had rather modified the water in whiskey tradition
but their whiskey was the blood stream at Lekki Toll Gate & the
necessity was a camouflage Moses to recreate the first plague
selah.
iii.
history forgets & remembers the meaning of diversity division
that a bullet does not discriminate & here is the newest &
authentic definition of history:
‘history is the study of Photoshopped events.’
amen.
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Success Akpojotor, born in Benin City, Nigeria, and a graduate of the University of Benin’s Department of History and International Studies, is a poet, novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright, and teacher. His works have appeared in Poets Reading The News, USAfrica, Saraba Magazine, Kalahari Review, Heavy Feather Review, African Writer, among others.
Photo by Eiseke Bolaji
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