Tears of the Earth

The Tears of the Earth, without pretence, practically holds court for environmental or eco-concerns with global ripples, staking a legitimate claim as a landmark tributary to the mainstream discourse and current debates on global warming and climate change, especially by portraying Africa, still trapped and anaesthetized in the web of post-colonial vassalage, compelled to mortgage her natural resources for savage exploitation with little or no regard to either environmental impact or sustainability. The poems are an expression of the author�s noble indignation at society�s governing elite for allowing collective natural resources �Mother Earth� to be callously butchered, so ingloriously ransacked, liberally poisoned and gagged �Beyond Recognition� for mere lucre or �Midas� touch� which procures and sustains the infernal binary of �Power and Pride� deified by our societies.