“Agosu if you go tell them, Tell Nyidevu, Kpeti, and Kove That they have done us evil; Tell them their house is falling And the trees in the fence Have been eaten by termites; That the martels curse them. Ask them why they idle there While we suffer, and eat sand. And the crow and the vulture Hover always above our broken fences And strangers walk over our portion.” -Kofi Awoonor “Songs of Sorrow” There is no other way to describe the appalling situation in the southeast today other than to call it what it is; a hostage crisis. We are at a...