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SCENE1
(when the lights comes on, we see a well-decorated sitting room, in it, we see a well-furnished center table with a blue vase on it, 4 picture frames hanging on the wall, a sofa , a fridge and a wooden stool.)
(Enter Baba Anikulapo, looking so sad)
Baba Anikulapo: (walking slowly to the center stage center) Hmmm, what a life, a life full of vanity, a life where all things seems to be fascinating at the beginning but at the end all things seems meaningless to us because where we are going at the end of our lives, we go alone to the world beyond, no one or thing to accompany us. We face our judgments all alone. Now that he is gone, what is left of him. I can’t even imagine how he will tell his creator the cause of his death. (To the Audience) oh! Where are my manners? I couldn’t even introduce myself to you. Well, my name is Baba Anikulapo. People call me baba owe(proverb). My mood today is very bad.
Audience: Why?
Baba Anikulapo: its so sad seeing a person you love so much just die a miserable death. I can still remember how he came to me . It was just like yesterday. I don’t want to feel this grief alone, perhaps you all can join me in this felling of grief. (Goes to sit at the sofa and sighs) DISOBEDIENCE, refusal to obey. A word that can cost the entire life of a human being even to his generations to come. An act of refusing to face the truth and accept destruction. The only act that can make a man to walk in another man’s path, neglecting his own path and after living his entire life on earth, he finds out that a life full of wastage has been lived by his so-called self. No more remedy,no solution to his problem. Coming to a state of confusion, wanting to start a new life but no hope to start a new life. Living in distress and regretting his past actions. But why couldn’t he realize the truth earlier before now? Living in disobedience blinds him, making sure that he sees no other thing than to live a life to fulfill his disobedient act. (Goes to one of the picture frames, picks it from the wall and goes to sit on the sofa, gazing at the picture) BANJO!! Why was death so curious to have visited you at a very early age. You told your parents you will desist from your bad acts. You promised to be a good boy. You promised to be a loving and honest boy. Death didn’t make you fulfill those promises. You have gone to place you will no longer need corrections, no bully, no chasetisement, no disturbance or even someone to make decisions for you. Haa! Banjo. (To the Audience) Banjo is a very peaceful son, though I am not his biological parent but I watched him grow from a toddler into an adult. He looks so innocent but within him, he is very evil, so stubborn and desperate. He refuses to listen to his biological parents. He is always selfish. Making sure all things fall in place for his own advantage. He wants to be on his own, making decisions and living an indepent life. I can still remember that day, that fateful night.
(Light goes off)
SCENE2
(BABA ANIKULAPO’S LIVING ROOM. Baba anikulapo clad in white dansiki and white sokoto, is sitting on the settee, reading a newspaper)
A knock is heard.
Baba Anikulapo:(Shocked) who is knocking at my door at the middle of the night (the knock is heard again) I am coming, just hold on. (opens the door) Banjo, what are you doing here, come in
Banjo: Good evening sir
Baba Anikulapo: banjo, is there any problem? It is late already. You should be at your parents’ house. Did you sneak out?
Banjo: Actually sir, I came to see you
Baba Anikulapo: No no no, your parents will be looking for you, when it is dawn , you can come and see me.
Banjo: Actually sir, I have been away for 3 weeks and my parents don’t know I am back. So I don’t want to disturb them this night.
Baba ANIKULAPO: OK, have your sit, what do you want to see me for?
BANJO:Sir, I want to spend the night here with you, by tomorrow morning I will go home.
Baba Anikulapo:Ok, the house is yours. feel free. Banjo, Banjo, I can remember few days back, I asked your parents about your well-being and their reactions towards my questions was unpleasant. Banjo, your father told me they don’t know about your whereabout talkless of your well-being. Banjo, you better change and give your parents rest of mind. Your mother was crying heplessly last 3 weeks . I think this is the reason why she was crying. You left home unnoticed.
BANJO: (CUTS IN) Baba, I had to do what I had to do. I am grown up for God’s sake. I don’t need anyone to make decisions for me or someone baby sitting me. I need to go out to hustle.
Baba Anikulapo: Banjo, last time I checked, you are in your 300 level in the university. You are still in school. This is not the time to start striving for your life. You need to face your studies and your parents. That’s all that matters now. Banjo, there is time for everything. You only have one year in school, after that, you can go out to hustle. It Is the duty of your parents to feed you while you are in school.
BANJO: No no no, Baba, I hate the way I am always ridiculed when I am in the midst of my friends. I serve as an object of mockery. My friends buying clothes and bags even shoes and cars. I need to get my own .
Baba Anikulapo: But your parents are not poor. Your dad is a cocoa farmer, he feeds you, pays your school fees at the appointed time . what else do you want?
Banjo: I want to be on my own. Don’t you get it? I want to have many things on my own. Things I can boast of that I achieved it myself.
Baba Anikulapo: But now is not the right time Banjo, you have your studies now.
BANJO: (stands up) i think we are done baba, I guess coming to your house was a mistake. Besides you are not even my father that will be making decisions for me. You are just my neighbor. See you later baba. (Exit)
Baba Anikulapo: Banjo, wait it’s late already, you can go tomorrow morning. (No answer).
(LIGHT GOES OFF)
(SCENE3
)
(when the lights comes on, we see a well-decorated sitting room, in it, we see a well-furnished center table with a blue vase on it, 4 picture frames hanging on the wall, a sofa , a fridge and a wooden stool.
BABA ANIKULAPO’S LIVING ROOM.
(STILL STITTING ON HIS SETTEE ADDRESSING THE AUDIENCE)
Baba Anikulapo: That’s it. At that point, he became so subjected to the dominion of disobedience. I could see the zeal of fulfilling the desires of disobedience in him. He is so desperate. Watching him going out of my house that night, made me see the full nature of disobedience. It can never go back or change its decisions that has been decided fully in its heart. Always, always, always, these decisions always leads to destruction of the human life. Nothing good comes out from disobedience. On an unfortunate day, I wished that day never came. I wished that day was never created. I wished it was not existing but what can one do with nature. I still remember when my daughter came home crying profusely and lamenting saying (now stands up) Daddy, daddy, I asked what it is? she said, Daddy, Banjo is dead , his body was found at the back of a grocery store. She added” a witness said that , his body was dumped by a group of boys. I blamed myself instantly, I began to ask myself some questions, I shouldn’t have advised him, I shouldn’t have brought up that matter. I should have minded my business and allow him to spend his night with me without discussing any matter atleast it would save him from this sudden death. He would have gone home the next morning but I had to advised him too as a caring person. He has a bright future. Banjo, gone home too soon. May his soul rest in peace. In this kind of incident, I realized that so many children don’t really listen to the advice of elder ones except their parent. They believe their advice don’t count in their lives because they are not their biological parents so they tend to always listen to their parents which is very correct but its not everywhere you go as a child that your parents follows you in life. There are some places, circumstances, situations whereby we find ourselves and we realize that our parents are not really needed. So we make foolish decisions on our own without consulting elders thinking that their opinions don’t count in our lives. So is the case of Banjo, he didn’t adhere to my advice and look at what brought him to an end,DISOBEDIENCE. As a child, you need to realize that, our parents don’t know all, so also elders don’t know all but they know some specific things unknown to us in life. So we should try and always obey the instructions of other elders, instructions that brings growth, peace, prosperity, success, life and many other profitable results, apart from our parents. Like our pastors, teachers and other good elders. I am heading off to the burial of Banjo at his parents house. See you all next time. (EXITS)
© Olaleye
(when the lights comes on, we see a well-decorated sitting room, in it, we see a well-furnished center table with a blue vase on it, 4 picture frames hanging on the wall, a sofa , a fridge and a wooden stool.)
(Enter Baba Anikulapo, looking so sad)
Baba Anikulapo: (walking slowly to the center stage center) Hmmm, what a life, a life full of vanity, a life where all things seems to be fascinating at the beginning but at the end all things seems meaningless to us because where we are going at the end of our lives, we go alone to the world beyond, no one or thing to accompany us. We face our judgments all alone. Now that he is gone, what is left of him. I can’t even imagine how he will tell his creator the cause of his death. (To the Audience) oh! Where are my manners? I couldn’t even introduce myself to you. Well, my name is Baba Anikulapo. People call me baba owe(proverb). My mood today is very bad.
Audience: Why?
Baba Anikulapo: its so sad seeing a person you love so much just die a miserable death. I can still remember how he came to me . It was just like yesterday. I don’t want to feel this grief alone, perhaps you all can join me in this felling of grief. (Goes to sit at the sofa and sighs) DISOBEDIENCE, refusal to obey. A word that can cost the entire life of a human being even to his generations to come. An act of refusing to face the truth and accept destruction. The only act that can make a man to walk in another man’s path, neglecting his own path and after living his entire life on earth, he finds out that a life full of wastage has been lived by his so-called self. No more remedy,no solution to his problem. Coming to a state of confusion, wanting to start a new life but no hope to start a new life. Living in distress and regretting his past actions. But why couldn’t he realize the truth earlier before now? Living in disobedience blinds him, making sure that he sees no other thing than to live a life to fulfill his disobedient act. (Goes to one of the picture frames, picks it from the wall and goes to sit on the sofa, gazing at the picture) BANJO!! Why was death so curious to have visited you at a very early age. You told your parents you will desist from your bad acts. You promised to be a good boy. You promised to be a loving and honest boy. Death didn’t make you fulfill those promises. You have gone to place you will no longer need corrections, no bully, no chasetisement, no disturbance or even someone to make decisions for you. Haa! Banjo. (To the Audience) Banjo is a very peaceful son, though I am not his biological parent but I watched him grow from a toddler into an adult. He looks so innocent but within him, he is very evil, so stubborn and desperate. He refuses to listen to his biological parents. He is always selfish. Making sure all things fall in place for his own advantage. He wants to be on his own, making decisions and living an indepent life. I can still remember that day, that fateful night.
(Light goes off)
SCENE2
(BABA ANIKULAPO’S LIVING ROOM. Baba anikulapo clad in white dansiki and white sokoto, is sitting on the settee, reading a newspaper)
A knock is heard.
Baba Anikulapo:(Shocked) who is knocking at my door at the middle of the night (the knock is heard again) I am coming, just hold on. (opens the door) Banjo, what are you doing here, come in
Banjo: Good evening sir
Baba Anikulapo: banjo, is there any problem? It is late already. You should be at your parents’ house. Did you sneak out?
Banjo: Actually sir, I came to see you
Baba Anikulapo: No no no, your parents will be looking for you, when it is dawn , you can come and see me.
Banjo: Actually sir, I have been away for 3 weeks and my parents don’t know I am back. So I don’t want to disturb them this night.
Baba ANIKULAPO: OK, have your sit, what do you want to see me for?
BANJO:Sir, I want to spend the night here with you, by tomorrow morning I will go home.
Baba Anikulapo:Ok, the house is yours. feel free. Banjo, Banjo, I can remember few days back, I asked your parents about your well-being and their reactions towards my questions was unpleasant. Banjo, your father told me they don’t know about your whereabout talkless of your well-being. Banjo, you better change and give your parents rest of mind. Your mother was crying heplessly last 3 weeks . I think this is the reason why she was crying. You left home unnoticed.
BANJO: (CUTS IN) Baba, I had to do what I had to do. I am grown up for God’s sake. I don’t need anyone to make decisions for me or someone baby sitting me. I need to go out to hustle.
Baba Anikulapo: Banjo, last time I checked, you are in your 300 level in the university. You are still in school. This is not the time to start striving for your life. You need to face your studies and your parents. That’s all that matters now. Banjo, there is time for everything. You only have one year in school, after that, you can go out to hustle. It Is the duty of your parents to feed you while you are in school.
BANJO: No no no, Baba, I hate the way I am always ridiculed when I am in the midst of my friends. I serve as an object of mockery. My friends buying clothes and bags even shoes and cars. I need to get my own .
Baba Anikulapo: But your parents are not poor. Your dad is a cocoa farmer, he feeds you, pays your school fees at the appointed time . what else do you want?
Banjo: I want to be on my own. Don’t you get it? I want to have many things on my own. Things I can boast of that I achieved it myself.
Baba Anikulapo: But now is not the right time Banjo, you have your studies now.
BANJO: (stands up) i think we are done baba, I guess coming to your house was a mistake. Besides you are not even my father that will be making decisions for me. You are just my neighbor. See you later baba. (Exit)
Baba Anikulapo: Banjo, wait it’s late already, you can go tomorrow morning. (No answer).
(LIGHT GOES OFF)
(SCENE3
)
(when the lights comes on, we see a well-decorated sitting room, in it, we see a well-furnished center table with a blue vase on it, 4 picture frames hanging on the wall, a sofa , a fridge and a wooden stool.
BABA ANIKULAPO’S LIVING ROOM.
(STILL STITTING ON HIS SETTEE ADDRESSING THE AUDIENCE)
Baba Anikulapo: That’s it. At that point, he became so subjected to the dominion of disobedience. I could see the zeal of fulfilling the desires of disobedience in him. He is so desperate. Watching him going out of my house that night, made me see the full nature of disobedience. It can never go back or change its decisions that has been decided fully in its heart. Always, always, always, these decisions always leads to destruction of the human life. Nothing good comes out from disobedience. On an unfortunate day, I wished that day never came. I wished that day was never created. I wished it was not existing but what can one do with nature. I still remember when my daughter came home crying profusely and lamenting saying (now stands up) Daddy, daddy, I asked what it is? she said, Daddy, Banjo is dead , his body was found at the back of a grocery store. She added” a witness said that , his body was dumped by a group of boys. I blamed myself instantly, I began to ask myself some questions, I shouldn’t have advised him, I shouldn’t have brought up that matter. I should have minded my business and allow him to spend his night with me without discussing any matter atleast it would save him from this sudden death. He would have gone home the next morning but I had to advised him too as a caring person. He has a bright future. Banjo, gone home too soon. May his soul rest in peace. In this kind of incident, I realized that so many children don’t really listen to the advice of elder ones except their parent. They believe their advice don’t count in their lives because they are not their biological parents so they tend to always listen to their parents which is very correct but its not everywhere you go as a child that your parents follows you in life. There are some places, circumstances, situations whereby we find ourselves and we realize that our parents are not really needed. So we make foolish decisions on our own without consulting elders thinking that their opinions don’t count in our lives. So is the case of Banjo, he didn’t adhere to my advice and look at what brought him to an end,DISOBEDIENCE. As a child, you need to realize that, our parents don’t know all, so also elders don’t know all but they know some specific things unknown to us in life. So we should try and always obey the instructions of other elders, instructions that brings growth, peace, prosperity, success, life and many other profitable results, apart from our parents. Like our pastors, teachers and other good elders. I am heading off to the burial of Banjo at his parents house. See you all next time. (EXITS)
© Olaleye
