Friday, June 24, 2011
Essay: Poeticizing Kidnapping
Chidi Anthony Opara With Wole Soyinka And Kofi Awoonor
(On Chidi Anthony Opara's "Degenerates Pound Our Polity Polluted") By Toyin Adepoju
Beautiful. Sad. Moving. Poignant. I find the last two lines particularly striking:
"Pardoned kidnappersCruise in our capital city, Cuddling ransoms,We supplicate in shackles."
The image of kidnappers "cuddling" ransoms rings out in its suggestion of
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