MY ROOT

Behind the black mountains and hills

To the fertile soil and shady rills

Down south of Bauchi stays

The civilized united Zaar race

Sweet home of sweet Will's

The origin of the nobler praise

Sir Tafawa Balewa of those days

The name that makes our story thrills

As a nation from a village of skills

We are the sun, fit to shine the world with our race

(2009, By Mathias Gidado)

In international poetry soup competition