By Ebhohon Majekodunmi Oseriemen

Who plants a tree in chains and expects it to bear fruit?

Who builds a house when the land is owned by another’s hand?

How can a nation rise when its leaders kneel to foreign lords?

What use is vision when the road is blocked at every turn?

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Who teaches the child if the school is built to mislead?

Where do the brightest minds go when home offers only exile?

Why does the farmer toil, yet his harvest feeds another’s table?

Who writes the rules when the game is rigged from the start?

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What is sovereignty if wealth is drained through open veins?

Who sells the gold and buys it back at tenfold?

Why does the miner dig, yet his hands remain empty?

Who profits from a continent in constant chaos?

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What good is a flag if the strings are pulled from afar?

Who truly holds the key to Africa’s locked doors?

When will the chains be broken, and by whose hands?

And tell me—how much longer will we keep asking, and on whose terms?