With its title adopted from a popular anti-racial and Pan-African saying; “the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice”, the poetry collection is one with an African setting in every poem it contains. Each of the forty poems in the collection addresses various critical issues relating to the world of Negroes and beyond. With a myriad of poetic hyperbolism, the poet advocates for the non-discrimination of races.

Blacker Berries beautifully pictures what an African world is, in the mind of every reader. Cultural diversity, racial inequality, religious gullibility and tension, love, failure of political institutions, unfulfilled dreams, amongst several others, are the themes critiqued by the poet.

The poet, Ayomide successfully describes the persona in each poem as a young adult. For Ayomide, bringing out the African element is a major phantasm that he wants to exist in the mind of his readers.