Biafra!

Enugu, Biafra, March 6, 2015.

Go tell it on the mountain tops

Proclaim it from the hill tops

Announce it from the roof tops

Shout it on top of your voices

Let the whole world hear about it

Including our enemies and adversaries

Who joined our enemies to slaughter us

Thinking that this dream would come to naught

Go now and tell them with a joyful noise

Accompanied with a clanging cymbals

That the dream has finally become a reality

That the epiphany of the nation is arrived

That what we fought for is finally achieved

That our common dream is now a reality

That the toil of our fathers is not after all in vain

We waited patiently for too long for this day

For five good decades we were busy dreaming

Praying that this day arrives to meet us still alive

Today our immeasurable joy knows no bound

Because this tiny fragile but hopeful seed

Watered by the precious blood of our brothers

The sufferings and starvations of our kinsmen

The sweat and fortitude of our rag-tagged army

Is finally come to fruition and this nation called

The State of Biafra Is finally taken flesh and blood

And is now dwelling among us forever and ever!

Chukwunwikezarramu Okumephuna

January 15, 2009.