This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
'...And your MP with a shining head and triple chin Will mourn your fate in a supplementary question at Question Time'.
These lines in the context of Richard Ntiru's 'The Pauper', portray the MP as being