Eguria

  "serif"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">       “Black Woman”  -Leopold Sedar Senghor   Naked woman, black woman Clothed with your color which is life   With your form which is beauty! In your shadow I have grown up the Gentleness of your hand was laid over my Eyes And now, high up on the sub-baked   Pass, at the heart of summer, at the heart of moon. I came upon you, my promised land, And your beauty strikes me to the heart Like the flash of an eagle   Naked woman, dark woman   Firm-flashed ripe fruit somber raptures Of black wine, mouth making Iyrical my mouth Savannah shuddering beneath the east winds   Eager caresses Carved tom-tom, taut, tom-tom muttering Under the conqueror’s fingers   Your solemn contralto voice is the Spiritual song of the beloved.   Naked woman, dark woman   Oil that no breath ruffles calm oil on the Athl...

                        “The Leader and the Led”                                 -NIYI OSUNDARE   The lion stakes his claim To the leadership of the pack   But the Antelopes remember The ferocious pounce of his paws   The hyena says the shudder is made for him But the impalas shudder at his lethal appetite   The Giraffe craves a place in the front But his eyes are too far from the ground   When the zebra says it’s his right to lead The pack points to the duplicity of his stripes   The elephant trudges into the power tussle But is colleagues dread his trampling feet   The warthog is too ugly The rhino too riotous   And the pack thrashes around Like a s...