Bekederemo! You Have Left Us in the Storm

A Tribute To John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo (6 April 1935 – 13 October 2020)

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Bekederemo! You Have Left Us in the Storm

A Tribute To John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo (6 April 1935 – 13 October 2020)

https://nigeriansreportng.blogspot.com/2020/10/bekederemo-you-have-left-us-in-storm.html

Bekederemo! 

Bekederemo!! 

Bekederemo!!! 

Great son of Ịjọ Empire! 

Why have you left us in The Boat. 

In the turbulent storm? 

Without even A Reed in the Tide. 

Behold the bloodshed of the Casualties.

Shot by the demons in uniform. 

See the bloodshed of the martyrs of the revolt

Our revolution gainst the State of the Union. 

Our nation is like The Raft adrift down the River Niger. 

Even the gods of Ozidi have taken to their heels.

We are marching with our bare feet.

As we stomp on the street.

The echoes of our screams rent the skies 

In A Decade of Tongues.

Ivbie is swearing at the Union Jack.

Blaming John Bull for the pepper in our eyes. 

But she forgot that her uncle Okoli sold our crude oil well to Shell. 

And General Chevron carried our oil drums to America, Their America. 

Our fish are floating in the oil spillage. 

Thousands fled our Izon Kiagbodo village.

Even The Masquerade of Ngbilebiri has stopped dancing. 

Who can dance to the Song of a Goat? 

In the hysteria of Nigeria?

Bekederemo! 

What are you going to tell

Achebe and Okara?

What are you going to tell Saro-Wiwa?

Tell them the truth, that all is not well.

Bekederemo!

Bekederemo!!

Bekederemo!!!

Farewell.

- By EKENYERENGOZI Michael Chima, author of "Scarlet Tears of London, The Prophet Lied and other books.

https://www.amazon.com/author/ekenyerengozimichaelchima