playwrights-from-nigeria

"This is an insightful drama about people groping in the dark in their search for the truth until they come into contact with the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ ( The Way, The Truth and The Life, The Only Way back to God), give their lives to Jesus, accept Him as their personal Saviour and Lord and have eternal life."

"A system of communication which consists of a set of sounds and written symbols which are used by the people of a particular country or region for talking or writing"

"The issue of which language is most appropriate for expressing an authentic African experience in creative African writing is a polemic one. Opinions are divided on what can best express African Literature and what African Literature is. This essay makes a synopsis of the views of the various schools of thought on both subjects before taking a position. It maintains that the medium of African literary expression, in the particular circumstance, French, faces the challenges of globalization and liberalization so much so that it has passed from its derogatory status of colonial master's language/Foreign or European Language in colonial African Literature to sarcastic but more acceptable inherited or imported language in postcolonial Francophone African Literature. The present trend, in postmodern African creative writing of French Expression, shows a marked evolution and transformation ..."

"It describes vividly the role played by Nigerian educational institutions in shaping African Literature.The presentation makes it abundantly clear that Nigerian educational institutions (both formal and informal) play a significant role in shaping creative African Literature through encouraging creative writing programmes and workshops, establishing literary clubs and organisations, hosting literary festivals and events, providing resources and mentorship, among others.A few recommendations are proffered. Parents at home and school authorities in schools should encourage the young ones to develop their creative writing abilities and have a great passion for African Literature."

"The study shows that the evidence is overwhelming: prevention is a crucial and effective way to address substance use and disorders associated with it. By investing in prevention programmes and strategies, we can actually reduce the risk factors which lead to substance use disorder, improve the overall health and well-being and save lives. It is high time we shifted our focus from treating solely substance use disorder to also investing in prevention."

"A language is shared by an ethnic group or a particular country or region."

"This definition introduces the element of ethnicity or regionalism."

"War never ends, but only moves to another place?"

"Then the deer must train themselves to seize the gun from their hunters! The cows to take over the narration of their own story."

"It is the fate of the conquered to toil for the strong! That is the logic of war, the logic of defeat!"

"No swimmer, however good, can swim beyond the rim of the world."

"Home is where every traveller returns after a journey, however long. When night falls, the visitor must take his leave of his hosts."

"Nowadays, in the new world, it is suicide to be weak."

"How can you claim to be strong, when your minds are so feeble."

"A father can only chew for a child; he cannot swallow for her."

"An artist has only his dreams. He has no power."

"It was my son your wife bewitched and led us to this calamity"

"When Mother Goat nods at the sonorous sound of the drum, she is not dancing! It is because each time it sounds, she recognizes the wailing of the leather!"

"Beauty makes all women vulnerable to the greed of men"

"Let no one count herself lucky till she finds herself on her death bed."

"It's us, not the gods, who created war. It's us, we human beings, who can kill it."

"When fate decided to strike you down, what amount of crying can help?"

"Don't speak like that, my child. Death is sweet, we think. But it is easier to talk of it, than to welcome it. We do not know what is on the other side, whether it is better or worse than here. Whereas even at its most bitter, life offers hope at least, which death does not."

"Insanity is the drug of misery."

"Even in misfortune, which levels everyone, the potions are unequal: we dare not tell you what we believe will becoming to us. ["

"[T]he skin that graces the king's shoulders, the leopard knows who supplied it. When mother Goat nods at the sonorous sound of the drum, she is not dancing! It is because, each time it sounds, she recognizes the wailing of the leather!"

"It is the rulers who write story - It is the hunters who compose the story of the hunt - It is the revellers, not the slaughtered cows, who record the fable of the feast."

"I ask you- without a shrine, without worshippers, what is a god?"

"All your shrines drenched in the blood Of your worshippers/All your sacred symbols wiped out by fire!"

"Nowadays, when the strong fight the weak, it's called a Liberation War to free the weak from oppression."

"Some words are such that when we hear them, all the light inside us dies at once, and our smiling daylight turns into the bleakness of night."

"I lit the torch so I will not have to grope my way to the camp where I shall be married to my enemy, that handsome butcher of our people."

"The gods! Which gods! Do you still trust any of them after this? Or have you quickly forgotten what they told us about Anlugbua just now? No, women, there is no shelter anywhere but in ourselves! Each of us has become our own god."

"Happiness is a fake. The gods employ it as a mask to trick us each time they are about to plunge us into grief."

"My daughter, you won't like to hear this but my advice is- do like the reed in the bush. Stand and strut in good weather. But when it storms, learn also to bend."

"When you have lost a war, you have lost, and there's nothing you can do about it but accept the consequences."

"Anger and desire are twin sisters in this drama we call love, two kernels in the same nut!"

"Anyone can kill. But it is not everybody who can forgive, or who can be just, as I know you are."

"The gods are out to punish human beings who she claims ‘learn only from suffering and pain."

"You do me great wrong, therefore to think that, like a rock in the middle of a lake, forever cooled by flowing waters, I do not know, and cannot know the sun's hotness that burns and dries up the open land."

"When the frog in front falls in pit, others behind take caution."

"Have I been sleeping? If so, I am sick in the head: for only a madman would go to sleep with his roof on fire."

"The horns cannot be too heavy for the head of the cow that must bear them."

"By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from tree to tree without falling."

"Until the rotten tooth is pulled out, the mouth must chew with caution."

"Now my people, when trees fall on trees, first the topmost must be removed."

"My people. Children of our fathers. Sickness is like rain. Does the rain fall on one roof alone? No. Does it fall on one body and not on another? No. Whoever the rain sees, on him it rains. Does it not? It is the same with sickness."

"When the rain falls on the leopard, does it wash off its spots? Has the richness of kingly life washed off the love of our King for his people?"

"It is sickness that man can cure, not death"

"It is not changing into the lion that is hard, it is getting the tail of a lion"