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Yewande Akinse
This girl
I am that girl who sprang from depths of èkó
who was raised on a sand filled lake
hence one with the river and rising tide.
that girl raised with devotion and with care
and in the hope of better tomorrows
I am the one thrice learned in law
and the one who survived the entrenched flood
meandering to tell the tale.
I wear a badge in honour of the streets
from whence this girl became a woman
Yewande Akinse is a poet and author of two collections of poems titled, “A tale of being, of green and of ing” (2019) and “Voices: A collection of poems that tell stories” (2016). This girl is an autobiographical poem that tells the poets’ identity, origins and vision.
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