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Rabiu

Rabiu

Bio: Rabiu writes from Lagos. Visar has either appeared or soon appearing on isacoustic press, Riggwelter, Picaroon Poetry, Nightingale & Sparrow, kalahari review, African Writer, the Gerald Kraak Anthology etc.

Goodnight Suburbia

Buildings blacken like the sky,         And hovels their roots beneath         The earth, run like fingers to Ghana,         Street skirted by masts, narrowed         Down to fires twinkling like stars,         Broadcasting from windows to         Old Oyo,…