I am noticing a lot of this type of poetry coming out of West Africa. Why is everybody telling everybody what to do? how to live? How to think? How to love? Soyinka does have some similar poems, but he always puts himself in the poem. It becomes personal.
As a young poet, i would suggest you follow his lead and start with your life, your experience. Forget assumptions that poetry is about telling "truths" like "Knowledge an indispensable rector" "You cannot be too young to succeed". That's not poetry, that's for a speech at a school commencement ceremony.
It is a long journey to look inside yourself and turn the chaos into poetry. Give it a try.
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