The Greco-Roman era has abundantly revealed that the Arts is capable of achieving the unachievable. And that when that things threaten to fall apart.

The year 2001. The month September. The day 11th - 9/11/2001. Venue Ground Zero. The event - the bombing of the Twin Towers. That was “Hollywood.” Flash back to “Nollywood”. The year, 2001.

“Things may start getting a fare shape if in my country, my culture, on which I pride on, that I am free to celebrate my own religious or tribal festivals; I am praised and appreciated in my native dress and religious jewelries and my food is respected even when it is salty and watery;

In line 1-5 which is the first stanza of the poem, the poet launches the discussion about the children whom he refers to as old

The poem “The Children of This Land” is a forty-three-line poem written by Professor Wole Soyinka in the year 2003.

The children of this land by Wole Soyinka is a poem of six stanzas, consisting 43 lines in total.