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- Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
- Sprache: Englisch
"The Gift and The Curse" by Babatunde Ogungbeje. Betrayed by her own family,abused and raped by men of the underworld. Ore, a brilliant young school leaver got what she never bargained for shortly after her mother was accused of witchcraft and killed. The book "The Gift and The Curse" is a drama text that depicts her discovery, pains, troubles and recovery. The story criticizes the persecution and killing of women accused of witchcraft in Africa. The Play is tragedy and the themes are human deceit, ignorance, distrust and cruelty against fellow human. The drama text is written in English language, Yoruba language and Nigerian street language.This book is based on true life events and can be understood by any reader.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018
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The gift and the curse
BookRix GmbH & Co. KG80331 MunichABOUT THE BOOK
"The Gift and The Curse" by Babatunde Ogungbeje.
Betrayed by her own family, abused and raped by men of the underworld. Ore, a brilliant young school leaver got what she never bargained for shortly after her mother was accused of witchcraft and killed.
The book "The Gift and The Curse" is a drama text that depicts her discovery, pains, troubles and recovery.
The story criticizes the persecution and killing of women accused of witchcraft in Africa.
The Play is tragedy and the themes are human deceit, ignorance, distrust and cruelty against fellow human.
The drama text is written in English language, Yoruba language and Nigerian street language.This book is based on true life events and can be understood by any reader.
THEGIFT AND THECURSE
THE GIFT AND THE CURSE
A PLAY
BY
BABATUNDE OGUNGBEJE
Copyright 2017®
Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,ortransmittedinanyformorbyany means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior writtenpermissionoftheAuthor.
Dedication
In loving memory of the late Asogbon of Mahin Kingdom,Ilaje land, High Chief
A.O Ogungbeje.
Preface
In this play, Babatunde Ogungbeje criticizes the persecution of children and women accused of witchcraft. In Africa,women, children, the elderly, the poor and those suffering from various forms of disabilities are mostly falsely accused of witchcraft because of their vulnerabilities. They are either stoned, beaten, banished or killed.
The play opens with Ore, a secondary school leaver whose dream to live a better life outside her community in Ilaje was almost dashed after her mother was accused of witchcraft. The community’s chief priest was able to convince her family that Ore’s mother had initiated her into witchcraft. In a community where witches are stoned and taken to Ayelala shrine to die, it is only wise for them to banish Ore’s mother and send her away to live with the priest for deliverance.
Thepriest’smotivewasrevealedafterAsonjaand Omobowale,Ore’schildhoodfriends,ledthepolice to his house where they found several girls who wereabducted,rapedandforcedtoliveinhishouse against theirwill.
Thisdramaisnotonlycaptivating,itvividlydepicts love,human deceit, ignorance, cruelty, distrust, betrayalandtheothersideofAfricanculture.
Babatunde Ogungbeje clearly makes a point that some of these accused people suffer from mental illness and can be helped in rehabilitation homes or psychiatric hospitals instead of being attacked, harassed, intimidated and killed. An attack on fellow humans in this position is an abuse of human rights as stated in the Nigerian Declaration of Human Responsibilities, and whoever is found wanting should face the wrath of the law.
