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"I Am Nigeria" by Joseph C. Ogbonna

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May 15th, 2026

I Am Nigeria

by Joseph C. Ogbonna

I am Nigeria, the vast land of amalgamated empires, kingdoms, communities,
	cultures, and traditions.
The lush West African garden divided by two rivers.
I am Nigeria, the linguistic giant of two hundred and fifty or perhaps much more.
I am Nigeria, the ebullient cultivation zone.
I have five to nine luxuriant vegetation belts.
I have been exhaustively mined for six decades now,
six long and good decades of the extraction of my own valuable black gold.
And I am still laden with much more of greater value not exploited as yet.
I am Nigeria, the deep slumbering giant who desires to be awoken.
I slumber and slumber still, because I am a behemoth of many paradoxes.

About the Poet
Joseph C. Ogbonna resides in Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria.
Read the poet's biography and Wax Poetry and Art publications
on Joseph C. Ogbonna's Artist Page.

This poem is featured in Comet #8, published in the Wax Poetry and Art Library.

Keywords: features of a nation, history, paradoxes

Previously published in Nigeria Poetry Magazine:
To Be a Woman
by Taofeeqoh Oriyomi Aduke

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