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Joseph Olamide Babalola
Joseph Olamide Babalola was short-listed for the 2021 K & L Prize for African Literature and the African Writers Award. He lives in Nigeria.
All Hail Beyond the Rivers of Babylon
When the teeth of the harps bit our fingers hard,
sorrow lamed our tongues, the cloud lingered,
the psalmist in us rehearsed a slow death in sadness...
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