God has appointed salvation for us. What great love and He will keep us in perfect peace because we trust in Him. God is amazing and wonderful. He is the King of Kings and the Lord of all. He is altogether lovely and Great. May I trust Him and love him at all times!
K.Oni
Can I be positive
When negativity is in view
Life is in decline
I have rejected optimism.
I feel the drain
The rage and the disgrace
I avoid all of my friends
And dwell in my own insanity.
The kings of kings
Forgive me for disgracing you
I wish I paid attention
And obeyed all that you wished.
Stronger gets stronger
The demise of my incline
besides I despised
The thinking of the mice.
Tell me that you love me
Or say that you despise me
One way or another
life is what it is meant to be!
K.Oni
I want to tell her that I like her
But it is no use.
There is a bottle in the cider
Or is it the wine I will abuse?
The melancholy drifts in
I smile in the blue.
The rain is in the clouds
Like there is love in my hue.
I had a dream of freedom
But I am chained to her lips,
The feeling feels like I am sinking
But the titanic is not in view.
I am but a shadow
The light is hid in a distant mood
I understand her feelings
There were many that I censored with my gesture, I never meant to be rude.
O, why this feeling that makes me turn to sin?
Its haunting, I pray for forgetting
But I tempt myself by glancing at her likeness.
I am not a slave
I chain myself to her inflexibility.
What am I doing?
When there are souls to win for eternity!
K.Oni
As a Nigerian who came to England at a young age, I can relate to Olusoga as he tells his personal story of experiencing racism although my family did not go through the racism that he went through. The only time in my youth I ever felt racism was when I was waiting at a bus stop and some white boys threw eggs at me. Whether it was racially motivated I cannot say for certain but I sure felt hatred for those who did it.
In secondary school, I felt that teachers loved me and if I ever got into any trouble I always got off lightly compared to my other black friends. I loved history class because the teacher that taught us was also our basketball coach. He taught me about principles and being disciplined and treated everyone the same. He didn’t care about the color of your skin but by how much you worked and took his instructions seriously.
He didn’t hesitate to kick you out of the training session but if he saw that you were trying and had no talent, he had a lot of patience. In his history class, I learned about the Tudors and Henry Viii and a few other things but one thing that was strikingly absent was the role of black people in Britain before the slave trade.
It was refreshing that Olusoga traces the history of black people in Britain from Roman Britain to the Tudors and then to the positive contribution of black troops in the first and second world war. Olusoga aims to remind us all that British history is a shared history and this book is an uncovering of black British history.
The book is comprehensive as Olusoga covers a wide period of history as he traces the connections of Black people from Britain, America, and Africa. He details the impact of the slave trade on Africa and focuses on certain individuals who had a significant impact on the abolition of slavery that is often forgotten.
The book is powerful and it accomplishes what it sets out to achieve which is to uncover the forgotten history of Black people in Britain and in the British empire.
K.Oni
She is my delight
Each day I do not fail to think of her good looks.
O, how pitiful my portion
That I must lament this yearning
And each night brings dreams
That will never be realized.
O, to message her now and confess
Will only bring a brutal refusal
Which at this moment I cannot bear.
I cannot understand this life
Every deep fancy has escaped me.
My lot is suffering and loneliness
For every girl, I which to labour for seven years
Has passed me by.
it is not utterly so
But blueish eyes
And graceful face
Glorious sunshine and the queen of my soul.
K.Oni
Life is what it is
We must face every decision
Look into the mirror and take responsibility.
No hiding, for we all die
And in death, not all is forgotten
Unless forgiven
So repentance is required of all,
For we must all face our maker
Especially those who have longed disbelieved!
K.Oni
Life is war
Torn to pieces by my lust
The demons encore.
Deadly desires of Wealth
The three taboos
Immersed in my flesh.
Loyal division
God and the devil?
Lucifer is content if I serve the pair
Because God will always be in the rear.
Holy Spirit, avail me in this battle
Numerous promises broken, I've become a chattel to sin.
But life is war,
When did I stop fighting?
Did I fall asleep in the struggle,
And caved in, became content with the shadows.
The prophetic word given
Was who will I serve?
I chose Jesus, but this is a daily vote!
K.Oni
