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SUMMARY
This essay examines poetry as a means for decolonizing the minds of the masses against bad leadership and also how poetry can stand as a tool for revolution against the people in power with a view to assert the writers’/poets’ drive to liberate the masses from the shackles of bad governance. From this study, it is glaring that the socio political and economic problems that ravage post colonial African states up to this stage of democracy, is one caused by neocolonialism. Where by powerful countries still give orders to her subordinates, which is a major cause of leadership failure in most African states, using Nigeria as a focal point. Every problem of the state lingering can be traced to bad governance occasioned by neocolonialism.
The advent of capitalism and the exploitation of the masses at the expense of a select few(those in power)is a vicious circle that has become more peculiar than ever before, to African states that are developing or underdeveloped. This underdevelopment coupled embezzlement and wanton corruption are the foundations of Tony Afejuku and Kola Eke’s deep seated dissatisfaction. Consequently, the writers’/poets’ uses their poems as tools to speak out and embodies the voices of the people. Their poems carry revolutionary character as poets of their generation are influenced in the same way having seen the squalor and decrepitude that ravage the African people. The post colonial African ruler/leader embody the ruling class and most of these poems studied in the research are poems of resistance, protests, reformation and a call to action so as to make the nation great again.
