Fairchild Media Publishing

In these poems, love becomes both subject and strategy, a means to evaluate the intricacies of modern life. The poems unfold as a dynamic meditation on love, eroticism, and human connection, laced with humour, social commentary, and imaginative lyricism.The poet transforms everyday experiences such as a ringtone, the streets of Lagos, a meal, and the absurdities of politics, into spaces of intimacy and reflection. Lovers emerge as both characters and symbols and their gestures reflect broader societal pressures.Still the poems flourish between tenderness and satire, the sensual and the civic, altogether producing a cadence that mirrors the complexity of lived experience.

Eko Poems by Ola Awakan

Flora's Love Colony takes a light-hearted approach to addressing the romantic passion of foreign influence that unhinged aborigines from their source of artistic knowledge. That is, the temporal settings alluded to in the poems are experiential encounters of historical evidence. While that lasts, the reader can piece together the same subject of argument and displeasure with which pioneer Nigerian literary pool is still associated. It is this viability that the reader is primed to deduce within the margins of archetypal responses. This may be taken as a bold narrative impression into the nature of the exploits of freedom versus the conditionings of exploitation. In other words, Flora's Love Colony is a head-on meditation on the dream of a conquistador.