Not My Business Poem By Niyi Osundare
He is a prolific poet dramatist and literary critic with degrees from the university of ibadan ba the university of leeds.
Not my business poem by niyi osundare. Comments about niyi osudare not my business by african poems kingsley egbukole 6 4 2020 6 04 00 pm when you speak out fight for others you same time protect yourself before the trouble gets to you. Not my business by niyi osundare not my business by niyi osundare. Not my business by niyi osundare. It is one of his most famous poems and it is a.
Poet s profile today i review my favourite nigerian poet niyi osundare whose works strike the same cords with me as kwesi brew of ghana. Osundare used his poem. In not my business the people around the voice of the poem are unjustly taken in nigeria but the voice says that it is not his business if he is not taken. Niyi osundare wrote not my business in accusation of the murderous dictatorship of general sanni abacha who ruled nigeria from 1993 to 1998.
Eventually he is taken but there is no one left to save him. In not my business.