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Wednesday, August 4, 2010

TONY MARINHO-AFRICAN WRITER/ACTIVIST!-HIS POEM-"THE NEW AFRICAN TALKING DRUM"


from africanwriter.com
The New African Talking Drum - A Poem by Tony Marinho



By Tony Marinho Published July 11, 2010 





The dreaded new African talking drum

Drums damaging every eardrum

Day, night, its message, a bush fire,

Consuming village to presidential villa



It talks in all 340 tribal tongues

Drumming into dreams, destroying sleep and lungs.

But no one dances in the noisy polluting heat

Of the new African talking drum beat



President to prostitute

Restaurant to research institute

Police to petrol station

Right across the darkened nation



It drums a dirge, mourning

From dusk to dawning,

www - the world wide waking,

As power dies again, again, and again.



Nigeria requires a 100,000Mw revolution in energy

Making every city an electri-City.

To be truly ‘I fine pass my neighbour’

Silence the new African talking drum - the generator.



– Tony Marinho

‘I fine pass my neighbour’ is colloquial for a small family size generator



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The victim

 WEBSITE- tonymarinho.com




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