Saturday, 4 June 2022

The Actual by Inua Ellams

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I tagged…

“Fuck / Border Guards”, tells of the scandal of border policies


“Fuck / Boys”, which concludes “… His heart if gnarled knuckle now / but holds a spot of light / thin as spiritskin / in which the boy he was and the man he could have been / whisper / in hushed starlight / in dimmed symphonies / of other ways of being”


“Fuck / Nigeria”, which begins “You are Nigerian until they massacre your elders...” for which “Nigerian” could sadly be substituted for almost any nation as few have a history without some history of violently ejecting minority members of themselves.

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