OPEN SECRET

About this poem

The poem,'open secret 'is a didactic satire.This is because is unveils the hidden truth about the socio political and economic situation of a country known as Nigeria.Nigeria is an African country where things get worst as the day unfolds. From the first stanza of the poem,the poet point out that the problem with the governance of Nigeria is cluelessness emphasising that the leaders we have been electing are deceptive people that wangle their way through leadership and therefore get confused on the seat. The poets also points out that Nigerians need to love one another and eschew their tribal differences and heterogeneity in order to solve the enormous problems facing the country because the absence of this botherly love and patriotism will worsen the state of the nation and continuously do so. The hardship in Nigerian had attained its peak that people can't even buy garri_the most common staple food for commoners and poor people.The poet says that we have the wrong  more »