by Wana Udobang
Here is a toast to the women
Who sat us around the moon
And gave us the secrets to the galaxy
Who chanted poems to squeeze rain out of the clouds Invented coding from divination
Distorted the lines between juju and technology Cooked black magic in cauldrons
and spawned brown girls who could fly
Created calligraphy with cassava paste,
dyed in indigo and sculpted into crowns
They held parliaments in village squares
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