League Day 8: HUSSANI ABDULRAHIM vs MOHAMMED SHAMSU-DEEN

Africa of today is divided into two school of thoughts concerning FEMINISM. A group supports the stand; with the notion that a woman has the same rights as a man with no iota of differences, while the second school stands vehemently against this notion.

For this, today I bring to you two Africans who speak with their pens, spitting their views on the subject matter. I bring to you; HUSSANI ABDULRAHIM and MOHAMMED SHAMSU-DEEN

Either Whyke Anthology agrees to feminism or not, the decision depemds on our judges and you, the audience. Therefore place your votes accordingly with all sincerity as this wordlords begin their battle... Enjoy!


NOTE;
1) The judges decision takes 70% of the judgement while well wishes and lovers of poetry votes takes 30%.

2) Upon no circumstance must any of the above mentioned poets vote.

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Good luck to the wordlords.. LET THE BATTLE BEGIN!

THEME: FEMINISM

MOHAMMED SHAMSU-DEEN

Title; Faeces

Woman is fire
That laugh light into life;
The God after God
Who is beyond comparison.
Let us fight for liberation
Liberation to end agitations in skins of women
Who still live in Akogoli's hut.
I will fight father
Who long lost his manhood
As he fights Yaa Asantewaa
In the body of my mother.

But 'why is He He?
Couldn't He also mould me?'
Are questions induced by swollen pride
From a mouth without guide
Saying she sabi book
So she no go take rebuke
Her husband for enter kitchen cook.

I heard a man wish with sigh
He had woman in his thigh
When our ladies tap Western rays
To balance the gender ways
Guys resolve to buy night
In panties devoid of light.

Madam, equality is iniquity
You took oath for this equality
Turning boys trees who cast into fields
Seeds of no yields.

Equality is menopause
Preaching freedom with verses of divorce;
It sucks rapport
At work and home for problem galore.

We are bartering life for this laxity
Bruising our culture into relations
That only know my sister's wives
And Uncle Anus!

Mohammed Shamsu-Deen




HUSSANI ABDULRAHIM

Title; WHY ARE WE WOMEN


Pardon me
But you should never have asked
Because, perhaps my definitions are pinching fangs in disarray
Nightmares that'd make your body twitch from torture

And these were what my heart told me:
It's because Adam was made, Eve had to follow
Because man is lazy
Who'd help him in the kitchen
Sweep floors and make his shoulders firm

It's because the world need a dab of tenderness
And man is too unconcerned and ill-suited to give
Its because grief and silence are crunchy apparels
Yearning for befitting models
Patient vessels capable of cat-walking at night without groping

Because lion has a lioness and tiger, a tigress
In such light a man should have manness
A superlative which couldn't hold
For since man is terror, manness would only mean more

It's because round pegs needed round holes
It's because men are demons and when they growl
Shock absorbers are needed to keep the status quo
And stop houses from exploding

It's because there's a need for children
Compartments to make and tend them

It's because there's a need to extol widowhood
To keep eyes shrouded in black and cry rivers at men's graves
And drink bathwaters of men whom they'd only worshipped
Please, forgive me.

LET THIS BATTLE BEGIN!