Dedicated to His Royal Highness, Asaph Zadok, Hama Bachama, a celebral mind and a restless spirit. Author, Poet and Journalist, courageous, brave and daring. A misunderstood genius as most geniuses are. It would appear that Benjamin Disraeli had him in mind when wrote “His life was a gyration of energetic curiosity; an  insatiable whirl of social celebrity.’ May his gentle soul rest in perfect peace.Â
We are the dancers at the king’s court
Costumed in regal apparel and mystic diadems
Light footed like the Koso
in a nimble waist-twixting, frenzy gyration to the rhythm of the musicA multi dimensional Avatar, Ikpa rendering the brave epics and conquests by our forefathers, Igede drumming up platitudes of their wealth and affluence as we dance in an unorthodox style, one leg up, one down.
Costumed in regal apparel and mystic diadems
Light footed like the Koso
in a nimble waist-twixting, frenzy gyration to the rhythm of the musicA multi dimensional Avatar, Ikpa rendering the brave epics and conquests by our forefathers, Igede drumming up platitudes of their wealth and affluence as we dance in an unorthodox style, one leg up, one down.
While communing with the gods in fervent spirit
And spiritual abulition
Destroying so that we can rebuild
Praying that we will leave this kingdom
Better than we found it.
Praying that we will leave this kingdom
Better than we found it.
Francis Ede,
2005, Numan, Adamawa State.
2005, Numan, Adamawa State.
