IMPORTED GODS
Jekwu Anyaegbuna
We will never serve the foreign gods who
will force us to starve our African gods.
Those black people who worship such
imported gods on Sundays and Fridays
often pelt stones and fire at their African
shrines and gods and ancestors.
We are cocksure that those strange gods
come bundled with cannabis from Italy
and England and Saudi Arabia, and
it makes the worshippers thoughtless.
They are daffy and weird, screaming like
wild animals in labour, as they
pray and worship, quoting madness from
their (un)holy books.
They always prefer to speak Latin
and English and Arabic because
it is easier to behave and sound stupid
speaking a foreign language.
They visualise white skin during their
midnight prayers, but their knuckles
and buttocks remain jet-black at
daybreak, their faces turning even darker.
They claim that the white gods are wiser,
holier, that the imported wine, blood, moon,
star, beads, cross, books, and bread can
work together for the salvation of Africans.
But it is taboo to revere the gods that whiten
and water down the brains of black people,
those venal gods that turn the eyes and
thoughts of Africans westwards and eastwards.
We will never serve the foreign gods who
will force us to starve our African gods.