The Beauties of Nigeria and Other Poems

Although Nigeria is a country that has acquired a notoriety of being the typical oxymoron of a rich yet poor state, or the mother of good and evil, or the bag that contains the best and the worst in humanity, as well as many other unspeakable adjectives. The author uses her supreme gifts of poetry and powerful reasoning to invite us to look at Nigeria differently, not out of pity or gratuitous altruism but because of an undeniable truth that Nigeria possesses more good, more beauty, and more bounty than it is otherwise advertised to the Nigerians and to the world.

Khadijah Muzzammil Hanga was born on August 10, 1986, in Kano, Nigeria, the oldest of five sisters. She majored in computer science at Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Nigeria. A member of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), she has a penchant for writing and reciting poetry. She has produced collections of unpublished anthologies under different titles; this is her first major publication. She lives with her family in Kano, Nigeria.