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 Dan Almajiri
Few call him Dan Almajiri
Other see him as a liability 
Swinging on a mournful tree
With future full of calamity

A child with a stolen childhood 
His maternal affection is doom
There's no certainty of Manhood 
For his fate tremble in darkness 

He's roaring for help every door 
And crying under the hunger shade
His quivering heart had endured
The sorrowful tears he had shed

His promising life flies in vain
Bidding farewell to future bliss
His dreams drifting in much pain
For nothing of him is richly bless. 

© MaiJamaa 2018.
 

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10 hours ago, Mimy said:

 Dan Almajiri
Few call him Dan Almajiri
Other see him as a liability 
Swinging on a mournful tree
With future full of calamity

A child with a stolen childhood 
His maternal affection is doom
There's no certainty of Manhood 
For his fate tremble in darkness 

He's roaring for help every door 
And crying under the hunger shade
His quivering heart had endured
The sorrowful tears he had shed

His promising life flies in vain
Bidding farewell to future bliss
His dreams drifting in much pain
For nothing of him is richly bless. 

© MaiJamaa 2018.
 

This is beautiful and intelligently captured. It takes one who knows the truth of the Almajiri boys to capture it thus 

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Beautifully written!!! Really sad that they have to go through what they go through. An army of boys who feel their lives have no worth and are one day ready to die for next to nothing. I wish Nigeria knew what it was breeding by blatantly refusing to acknowledge this menace and profer a solution...

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It has almost become a normal feature, a cultural norm – children deprived of a normal and descent upbringing, roaming the streets in every nook and cranny in the north. The elites, clearly oblivious to the danger. The clerics, so consumed with sectarian war to even bother. The federal government, rather that banning the menace, is busy playing political correctness because the system is believed to be rooted in Islamic religion and Fulani cultural practices. 

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