“There were no incisions on my daughter’s body, no lacerations, no scar, not one single lash mark from a previous life. Still they named her Rotimi, a name that implied she was an Abiku child who had come

Abiku' by Wole Soyinka In vain your bangles cast Charmed circles at my feet I am Abiku, calling for the first And repeated time. Must I weep for goats and cowries For palm oil and sprinkled ask? Yams do

Working assiduously in the office to make sure the part 2 of my analyses on Abiku by Wole Soyinka is a success.

Abiku by John Pepper Clark Coming and going these several seasons, Do stay out on the baobab tree, Follow where you please your kindred spirits If indoors is not enough for you. True, it leaks through

IMAGERY OF ABIKU ABIKU Each time I am opportuned to read this poem, I am always very keen at looking at the mysterious circumstances that surrounds the ABIKU birth and the cycle that its victims suffers.

Ok, like i rightly said last week that Abiku means the spirits of children who die before reaching puberty... Futhermore, a child who dies before twelve years of age being regarded an Abiku, and the spirit,