Nollywood actress Chiege Alisigwe plays the 'female lead character' in The Concubine; the 2007 film adaptation of a 1966 novel by Elechi Amadi. Coincidentally, Matthew Mahmood’s love poem is titled The Concubine!
THE CONCUBINE!
By Matthew Mahmood
The Concubine!
What a name to call my sweetheart
But I call her ‘Aduke’
The woman I caress
She brings joy to my heart
…brings love to my manhood
That is when it stands
At angles well endowed
She’s like a train whistle
That 'rings' in my head
For that foretells
That I must see Aduke today
The Concubine!
That’s what my two wives call her
They loathe her
Ready to beat her up
They can even kill her
They have spent money on marabouts
With promises of Aduke’s untimely death
They have spent their time complaining to
Seers that rock their cheeks with
With goodies of deceit
They are jealous of Aduke
A woman they hardly know
As incoming wife number three
The Concubine!
She’s not a concubine
But a lover I wish to marry
Aduke’s bosom
Rocks me to sleep
In between her chest I bury my nose
The warmth of her areolas
Lead me to wonderland
A world of peace
Unlike the noise of quarrelling wives
And crying babies
The Concubine!
She’ll soon be my wife
I will pay her bride price
March her to my bedroom
On our wedding night
And drop her 'like it’s hot'
A la rapper Snoop Dogg
Aduke’s honeypot
I’II devour like Winnie the Poo
For so long
I’ve waited
To spread the red stained white bedsheets
The Concubine!
She will no longer be called that
But a virgin
I devoured…
They had no red stains
But white infectious residue
Ashamed to tell anyone
Led me to wife number three
