Rich River Books

  FOREWORD:  The lucid poems in this collection (130 in all) were carefully selected to give readers a rewarding experience as they go through them. The works touch diverse aspects of life and exhibit serious as well as humorous tones where a lizard gives advice, a chameleon shows it is as important as a lion and a motivational illustration is drawn from the way the tortoise is built.   The poems, spanning over three decades, had been published in newspapers, appeared in anthologies, read on radio and posted on several websites. Look out too for the videos of recitals and readings. The collection has three sections: ‘BOOK ONE: COLOURS OF LIFE’; ‘BOOK TWO: COLOURS OF LOVE’; and ‘BOOK THREE: COLOURS OF FAITH’. Each section, as its name implies, has verses that relate to its tagged theme. It also features two fairly long rhyming narrative poems, 'TALE FROM LAGOS' and 'A LONG LOVE SONG'. (The collection, as ebook or paperback, is available here and some poems or excer...

‘WHAT THE NANNY GOAT TOLD HER KIDS’ is a strange mixture of human and animal stories. Grace, the nanny goat, feels slighted by Mrs Ransom’s remark and so urges her two kids to get ready for a revolution. When the uprising fails, Grace tells her kids to not only learn to bark but bite like Muscle and Bone, the Ransom’s dogs, which recently stop some bandits from robbing the Ransom’s home. Meanwhile, Mr Ransom and a host of villagers who start sleeping like millionaires because of the promised goodies from ‘Western countries’ discover late the ‘concerned fellows’ who bring the good news, making them drink bitter concoctions so as to stay in good health to grab their wealth, are a smart clique of con artists. (The novel, as paperback or ebook, is available here .)