Unlike Soyinka and JP Clark's "Abiku" written from the eyes of a persona who happened to be an Abiku and the other an observer of Abiku's mysticism. Nasthepoet's "Abiku" as presented Abiku symbolically as the 'Sun'. The spacio-temporal setting is a representation of a calamitous developing/underdeveloped nation. A space bedeviled with neo-slavery. Well, in the end, there happens to be a deux-ex-machina. This poem is worthy of multi-time listening. - Ridwan Oyediran