Gambian author, Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe cooked in Abuja, Nigeria, during the 2020 PenPen Africa Writers Residency organized by the African Writers Development Trust (AWDT) and sponsored by the European Union.
Divorce is a common phenomenon in Africa, with immediate and long-term consequences. Divorce rates among young people have risen in South Africa, which has one of the highest rates in the world. What causes divorce in Africa?
Infidelity, Adultery, more commonly known as “cheating”, is on top of the list of reasons for divorce in South Africa and other African countries. In this poem, famous Gambian author, Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe makes an x-ray of marriage and divorce in a very poetic and literary perspective.
The following are the countries with the most annual divorces according to the United Nations in 2009. (source, Wikipedia).
| Country | Divorces |
|---|---|
 China | 1,893,000 |
 United States | 1,106,670 |
 Russia | 685,910 |
 Japan | 257,475 |
 Germany | 190,928 |
Messing with my x-husband
Turning his x and the x in him y
Then, he asked why.
Why?
Why must you be xy?
I said relax, read lip text
What next?
Balling in my air-max
Exits or exit; ex-merit
Yell at my suitcases
Shoot you with my gun like a gendarmerie
Tired of hearing appellate cases in my court of inquiry
Query, buckle knobkerrie
Now Mary, merry like a merry-berry
After you merry, you can then quit Katy
Get that story; you erased my history
Left me in misery, eating pain-raspberry
Stain in brain surgery got a grey-hair pastry
All for you, you went peltry
Had a bad shoot of an exemplary
I bore you three splendid children
Why hen me with another chicken?
Is this the love from the beginning?
I wept all my eyes in your storey-building
Should I not have mercy?
I’d be dashing off your state of celibacy
Try after that painting, the venom of your sucks deadly
Remnants of your love haven't been aptly
Rusted my heart lug jerkins
Chew the bone of my rabbit
After done, yell ribbit
And rib the beat, get a defeat
I’ll not, don’t lick my feet, enjoy your new goat
Open my zip, get the shit in it
Book a flight ticket, open up your mouth jacket
Better fly a big rocket; you emptied my breast’s pockets
When my parents kicked the bucket
You opened up your trousers' socket
Play ball won Nugget and got awards for seem dockets
I got naked, my breast mark scarily masked
Sit and wait, be my exhibit
Nipple the skit, tool-kit a kit, and queue in it
I said I’m a woman of a zoo, a zoo mother
I'm frustrated with your bitter-sweet cake-butter
Kept you in my cage, you turned a new page
Married another new mate
You broke my bay, made my June May
Is over, I’m martyrdom in my harm rays.
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Well written
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