Guns, Man and Death - Umaru Fofana

Gun, alone, not kills
Man, alone, kills
Man manufactures the gun
Man pulls the trigger on the gun

Opening - Kewulay Kamara

Peace!
We’ve gathered in the name of Allah
May we disperse in the name of Allah.
Let it be.

Instructions on Survival - Suricia Yatiana Conteh

Arms outstretched so far it

embraces the Sahara desert,

not minding the scorching heat

as it tortures her like a thief.

Word in the Belly of the Word - Kewulay Kamara

Ignorance of the word

is ignorance of wisdom.

Of Hope and Dinosaurs - Syl Cheney-Coker

Always, we searched in the stone river,

while the slaughterhouse was waiting for us,

long before we turned the saccharin of words

into inflammable brawls. Full of ancient gluttony,

Man against Man - Abdulai Walon-Jalloh

It's in those

Who fight them

To release that

Stored in venom

Rejoice (Oh Ye Africans) - Gladys May Casely-Hayford

Rejoice and shout with laughter

Throw all your burdens down,

If God has been so gracious

As to make you black or brown.

Peace - Kewulay Kamara

Good evening people,

Good evening people

Laughing Drums - David Amadu

History’s white hand wrote my country’s course

In a language that will come back and hunt her

In the twenty first century;

Poem of things and other things - Oumar Farouk Sesay

A littered mind
A disused thought
A muffled song
A caged bird

Blood Money - Syl Cheney-Coker

Along the route of this river,

with a little luck, we shall chance upon

our brothers' fortune, hidden with that cold smile

The Breast of the Sea - Syl Cheney-Coker

After our bloody century, the sea will groan
under its weight, somewhere between breasts and anus.
Filled with toxins, her belly will not yield new islands
even though the orphans of East Timor wish it so.

Sierra Leone at 48 - Abdulai Walon-Jalloh

I'm in ripe middle age
Facing the difficulties of a new page
Yet I'm expected to be a sage
Though I'm bound in my little cage