YOU AND THE ENVIRONMENT

They say your health is your wealth

So seek yours with all what you worth

Remember your life is priceless

And treat your environment with niceness

Before you dump your rubbish indiscriminately,

Think of the harm you are causing passionately

We spend billions annually on curing our sicknesses

Instead of thousands on controlling wastes with readiness

The Rivers, lakes and lagoons running downstream

Give us water, shells and fishes that swim

So please stop polluting them with your toxic

You are risking the future of our species and families

The air that we breadth needs to be clean

But some things we do, sends harm there in

The factories and the moving turbos burning

Pollute the pure air we've since been inhaling

Had our environment a mouthpiece of this kind,

She'd have inform us of our inordinate pleas

To satisfy the greedy desires beneath our feet

And how we can restore peace and keep the Earth bind

If you don't know how related you are to your environment

Then you are signing up for her endangerment

You are your environment and she is you

So be friendly and she'd be friendly too

Save your environment from this eminent ambush

To the causes that matters, add a push

For if your health is your wealth,

Why not buy it with all what you're worth?

DREAM WITH PRIDE

You can do everything you want to

And you can do the unimaginable too

But you'll have to do more than just try

If you really mean to soar in the sky

Dream with pride but live with care

Drive your tide to where success spares

Spare yourself from the conspirators' company

So you can relate with your inner persona

Fear is a default gene in everyone's anatomy

People just choose to lose theirs like the 100's Bellamy

Especially for things they have no control over

And most times, to things they could turn over

For every yes you receive however, 

There are multiples of nos wherever

So make your moves while you still can

Since there seem no guarantee for a second span

But you need to be the inner you

To leave bright tracks into the blue

Nothing can or should stop you

From writing your special book

The oceans are drying and the fishes are dying

The forests are burning and the wild is widing

We seeking answers but they keep on lying

Risking the future we've long been eyeing

They give separate information to the masses

And reserve some facts for the classes

This is the cause of the everlasting clashes

That mounted the tall wall around the masses

But the hour hand has finally landed

At the docks of the next generation

Change is the only load on board

For a complete system restoration

I am not asking for a revolution; this isn't a revelation

But I have this strong feeling, things are resetting

There soon come a new world from the ashes of the old

So keep your eyes open for the flying signals

Let's join the search team for some solutions

To the challenges unsolved by our colleges

Our ecosystem is shrinking; is the cause not pollution?

Please let's save the last surviving village

Simon K. Amu (DzideFo)

©2016

EDUCATION IN AFRICA

So I have been thinking about the African definition of education

The one that is translated into the academic curricular

Which lay the very foundation upon which we base our quest

Our quest to find lasting mechanisms for our good

But I am disappointed every time by the findings

Because there seem to be chaos everywhere but in disguise

And so I am asking the questions they have been masking

Hopefully to unravel the stories still untold in time

What do we intend achieving with the young members of society?

What should we use to drive home this package?

How best can we ensure its efficiency without anxiety?

And is there any hope for those caught in its wreckage?

I think we are the architects of our constant instabilities

Because we have explored to the point of explosion

But we still fail to utilize the most out of our little notions

And we rather end up consumed by our unlimited capabilities

I say this because of what education seems to stand for in Africa

We portray her as the precious bride from the West

But she is just part of the social mainstream

A concept that forms the basis of the thrive of the human family

Education in Africa seems to be asking the wrong questions

Looking at the opposite direction of its supposed focus

By so doing, education in Ghana, Nigeria and other African states

Keep arriving but at the solutions that doesn't solve their problems

Open your mental screens to imagine what am about to tell you

In Africa, the young are taught American and European concepts

Trained to understand how the West and the East collide

But never offered the same level playing ground

As that at the disposal of our foreign counterparts

We are being prepared for a future that is either lost or not in existence

This is because we have different resources to attain our ends

And hence we require different styles of education

If we are going to really be of any returnable use to our societies

Why then do we dominate our systems with foreign priorities?

Are we blinded by our egos so that we sacrifice our future?

For but what we so much value and yet fail to utilize?

Don't tell me it's because of colonialism

That we have come to intrinsically love everything European

What about our undying desires for the American taste?

Did America also colonized us or is it because America was a British colony?

We have minds that reflects and discern on issues

Hearts❤ that are tender and caring to the plight of others

What should it cost us to start thinking upright?

I mean to start believing in the African dream of a better world?

We are promised better incentives after higher education

But we lack the industries that can employ our graduates

Is there a line we are missing from the database?

Or our leaders are simply not telling us the truth?

I mean, I am not against what we import from the West or the East

But we should not deviate from our obvious sense of direction

The fact that we regard foreign education

Shouldn't be the reason we work hard to undermine ours

TBC…