Photo Credit: Business Day, Retrieved: 2/June/25

By: Olobo Ejile

The gospel of politics according to

my countrymen

after Usoro’s Paradoxised Ubuntu

decamping, recamping,

recamping, decamping,

tangling, untangling,

retangling, detangling,

crisscrossing, crosscarpetting,

crosscarpetting, crisscrossing,

& return crosscarpetting.

ABOUT

Olobo Ejile is a poet, writer, and researcher from Dekina, Kogi State. His works are featured or forthcoming in ANA Review 2024, Fiction Niche, Shallow Tales Review, Table Feasting Magazine, EOPP Anthology 2025, Indy Press, among others. He was longlisted for the Wale Okediran Poetry Prize 2025. He is a fellow of the 2025 Idembeka Creative Writing Workshop.