Joseph Ushie

About the Book

Money is our god we kill for it, we heal for it – Niyi Osundare

Like a cancerous growth, the craze for money has crept into all facets of our national life. Nigerians strut the nooks and expanse of this country in “Badagry chains” reminding us of those days of slavery and colonialism
Famine, natural disasters, wars loom large in our consciousness as “we bemoan each month-end’s failure – each lifelong arithmetic that narrows to zero”. “The new governor will ruin the state’s economy”, as Abuja, a symbol of unity lie like a golden lie in the heart of a chronic lie”.
As the preachers remind us of the second coming, “we fear the messiah is drunk with honey…And the sheep died yelling from the jaw of the lion like justice from under the boots of an invincible General”.
Joe Ushie offers us rare insights into the world of Lambs at the Shrine, a loaded collection that is highly prophetic, serious and threnodic.
The poet teaches at the University of Uyo, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria.