The Final Testament of a Minor God (Ebook)

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The Final Testament of a Minor God

“I will
tell you how
big a dealĀ I am, he said:

the god
you worship
brings his tithes to Me” (Neocolonial Njakiri, The Final Testament of a Minor God)

The Final Testament of a Minor God is Chuma Nwokolo’s second poetry anthology containing a hundred poems on a wide variety of themes. It was published in 2014, in time for the centenary of Nigeria’s amalgamation.

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Contents

1.Ā Ā Ā Ā  This Land is Mine

2.Ā Ā Ā Ā  Four-Letter Word

3.Ā Ā Ā Ā  A Revolutionary Waits for a Sign

4.Ā Ā Ā Ā  A Cappella

5.Ā Ā Ā Ā  Prayer before Flight

6.Ā Ā Ā Ā  Jos Dancing

7.Ā Ā Ā Ā  Poverty is first of all, Mental

8.Ā Ā Ā Ā  Home for Sundered Lumps

9.Ā Ā Ā Ā  Runaway

10.Ā Ā  Soothsaying 101

11.Ā Ā  Bombs and Churning Milk

12.Ā Ā  Leaf-Fall

13.Ā Ā  On Contemplating 43

14.Ā Ā  Bric-a-Brac from a Life left Suddenly

15.Ā Ā  War Crimes

16.Ā Ā  This is How our Forefathers Did it:

17.Ā Ā  Freudā€™s Couch

18.Ā Ā  A Portrait of Niger as a Young Stream

19.Ā Ā  Kissing Stone

20.Ā Ā  Upon Rains Falling Comprehensively

on Asaba

21.Ā Ā  Kamikaze

22.Ā Ā  Only When I Laugh

23.Ā Ā  The Thirst of the Riverbed

24.Ā Ā  Old Rooms

25.Ā Ā  Blood Beneath the Beauty

26.Ā Ā  Say You are a Writer, Too

27.Ā Ā  Funeral for Words

28.Ā Ā  Braille

29.Ā Ā  Grandfather Clock

30.Ā Ā  Sphinx

31.Ā Ā  PortĀ  Soif

32.Ā Ā  Eyes

33.Ā Ā  Casualties

34.Ā Ā  Neocolonial Njakiri

35.Ā Ā  Second Sight

36.Ā Ā  An Evening with the Kazims

37.Ā Ā  Journeying

38.Ā Ā  Sudan, Sudan

39.Ā Ā  Funeral of Dead Gorilla

40.Ā Ā  Talking Sudan

41.Ā Ā  Fluting in Bass

42.Ā Ā  Telling Poems from Pottage

43.Ā Ā  Succession

44.Ā Ā  Biophotonic Ode

45.Ā Ā  It Started out a Dream

46.Ā Ā  The Taxi Back

47.Ā Ā  A Little Ode to Small Idols

48.Ā Ā  She Buried the Hatchet

49.Ā Ā  Anniversary of the Firstborn

50.Ā  Ā It is in the Nature of Nations

to Eat their Young

 

 

 

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51.Ā Ā  The Widow and the Sloth

52.Ā Ā  Teen Date

53.Ā Ā  Praise for the Working Dead

54.Ā Ā  Ode to the Manifesto

55.Ā Ā  Mangoseed

56.Ā Ā  A River Memo

57.Ā Ā  The Penitence of Fire

58.Ā Ā  Sums from the DMS

59.Ā Ā  Child of the Raging Fire

60.Ā Ā  A Requiem for Rage

61.Ā Ā  The Hungry Road
62.Ā Ā  Why (Sane) Poets have only 23
Hours a Day

63.Ā Ā  Renascent Man

64.Ā  Ā Identity

65.Ā Ā  The Sum of Small Things

66.Ā Ā Ā  2 + Phone = Crowd

67.Ā Ā Ā  Cannibalising Chi

68.Ā Ā Ā  A Lagos Lazarus

69.Ā Ā Ā  The Earthing

70.Ā Ā Ā  The War this Time

71.Ā Ā Ā  A Short Memo to an Endangered Bee

72.Ā Ā Ā  How to Make a (Small) Country

73.Ā Ā Ā  The Mourning After

74.Ā Ā Ā  A God Resigns

75.Ā Ā Ā  An Oga at the Top Says his
Morning Prayers

76.Ā Ā Ā  Pencilwork, near Paper

77.Ā Ā Ā  The Arithmetic of Life & Death

78.Ā Ā Ā  Carved on Tree (& Deciphered

79.Ā Ā Ā  Where does the Mob Go

when the Job is Done

80.Ā Ā Ā  An Autobiography might End like this

81.Ā Ā Ā  Morality vs. Voice

82.Ā Ā Ā  Armchair Activists

83.Ā Ā Ā  The Short-Memoried One

84.Ā Ā Ā  Mamudo 42 ā€“ Buni Yadi 59

85.Ā Ā Ā  Wayonomics 101 (the 4 Maxims

86.Ā Ā Ā  The Penitence of Snow

87.Ā Ā Ā  Broken Heart Metaphors (No. 68)

88.Ā  Ā Ā The Children of Laas Geel

89.Ā Ā Ā  Anniversary

90.Ā Ā Ā  Oil Wars

91.Ā Ā Ā  Alien Corn

92.Ā Ā Ā  Of that First Night without Madiba

93.Ā Ā Ā  NotesĀ  on the News

94.Ā Ā Ā  Kofi Awoonor

95.Ā Ā Ā  The Zebra Crossing Mystery

96.Ā Ā Ā  A Tree Called Samson

97.Ā Ā Ā  The Final Testament of a Minor God

98.Ā Ā Ā  The Courting of Adieleuwa

99.Ā Ā Ā Ā  The Poet & the Daemon
100.Ā Ā  Extinction

 

 

 

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