DIVORCE AMONG US
CHARACHERS:
Emeka { husband }
Chichi { wife/nurse }
Ogbeni,
Uche
&
Abbey {friends}
Ekaiteh {bartender}
Act one Scene one:
{in a palm wine bar}
Uche : Wina don hear wetin Mrs~em Chichi
de drive now?
Ogbeni: Na wetin?
Uche: "Na the big one"
Ogbeni: " Which one?"
Uche: " Nah dah one weh eh getti big fat exhaust
pipe for back."
Ogbeni: "Eh! huh! Aah dah one weh deh dey call
am Ara, Ara wetin sef?"
Uche: "Yes, yes, dey de call am Aramanda!"
Ekaiteh: " Nah wetin be Aramanda?"
"For my village Aramanda na snake."
Ogbeni: " Ekaiteh, commot with your village
mentality ooh ja^reh!"
Ekaiteh: " Who you deh talk to like dat?"
Uche: "Ogbe, I beg leave her alone" "You no know
sey since Ekiete marry chief Woonga
e^ pickin she don become princesss overnight?"
Ogbeni: " Dat one no be real princess, nah fake,
princess by default."
Uche: "Ekaite, all weh a sabi na say, if you for
be man pickin I for eh! I for slap some sense
into your brain for thinking say Aramanda nah snake
daso."
{ sighs & curses while Ekaite rolls her eyes at
him }
Abbey: "UCHE, my brother, contiue the tory. I wan
hear how this one go end."
Uche: "As I was saying b4 I was rudely interjected,
or is it interupted? Aramanda nah dah big mott weh
Nissan build, weh them deh call Sports Utility."
Abbey: "Oh! oh! oh! nah dah one weh most of them nah
silver color weh e deh occupay all the road."
Ekaiteh: "Na da one weh e get big backside like my
own so?"
{ All laughs: {"he! he! he! ha ! ha! ha"}
Ogbeni:"Commot jare! take dat your tail commot for
my face."
Uche: " Winna listen to me well well...Nah Aramanda
. Madame Chichi deh drive all over town now, and as she deh sit up their nah so she deh look down on all man for road; and even the man for her own house."
Ekaiteh: " Noto me oh!
Ogbeni: "Commot sef! Ekaite, you be man pickin?"
"You no go even fit begin to understand the
fulcrum of this situation, unless you go for eh! eh! for
plastic surgery, go remove that your fat tail
and put am for your front side."
Ekaiteh: "Ogbe, or nah Ogbe gini be your name sef?
Leave me alone oh!"No make me a vex so teh I go
fetch my papa yee magic pipe and gun powder come spray~am for your face."
Abbey: "I beg, winna stop this nonsense ooh, eh! na wetin sef?" "Some man take some man e woman or na wetin between you two?"
Ogbeni: "Let me go back to the crux of the matter,
and please Ekaite, no open your filty mouth
interruption me again, you hear! " {Laughter....}
Ogbeni: "The point na say shoulder no suppose for
grow pass head."
Uche: " What do you mean?"
Ogbeni: "I am saying that when woman take over the
roll of 'head of household',and then begin
to deh look down on em own husband, then divorce
is in~evitable"
Ekaiteh: " So you mean to say woman cannot be head
of house hold or what?" Bunmi, nah for which school you learn that one?"
Ogbeni: "No! no! no!"
Ekaiteh: "Ok, for which book you read that one?"
Uche: "E deh for Bible."
Abbey: "Oh! oh!"
Uche: "Nah so Bible talk~am eh! Go look: The book of Acts
2 verse 11"
Ogbeni: " O Lord! - e don finish! that's it!"
Ekaiteh: " I beg no drag God into this matter oh! "
Uche: "God is inevitable!" "You know know say: 'A life without God, na like rainbow weh e no get color.'
Ogbeni: "Ekaiteh, allow me to continue with my
tory oh!" If you interject me again,
I will call Aramanda - the snake to come bite your
mouth shut."
{Ekaiteh sighs and rolls her eyes again}
Uche: " A wan go to the bottom of this tory."
Ogbeni: "Last night, Madame Chichi begin deh vex
for no reason, no reason at all o, other than the fact say em husband -Emek, ask am simple question weh man pickin deh ask em wife: say quote: "wetin she cook for dinner?"
"Na em she bust out in furious anger say:" "Go cook
for yourself, commot for my house sef"
"A don tired of you" "Commot! comot now! " "Go!
Go now! I have already filed for divorce"
Na~em a whole Chief Emeka,the honorable chief of Aba, take em cap cover head and comot for
house ooh!.
Ekaiteh: "Ogbeni, how do you know all this?" "Do you live
with them?"
Uche: "Ekaiteh, wait, you know know say their is
no smoke without fire?"
Ogbeni: After Mrs'em Chihi kick Abeke out of e own house,
e waka soteh till e reach my house last night at midnight."
Ekaite: "I must to verify this."
Uche: "Ekaiteh, ok, why don't you just go down town?" " Or you know know say divorce filling na public information?"
Ogbeni: "Tell her, Bunmi, tell her!"
Abbey: "Even, you fit access all that info on your
computer sef, in the comfort of your own home, sitting on your fat behind."
Ekaiteh: "Abbey, no start with me, ooH" {.... and
rolls her eyes at him}
Ogbeni: "But, Ekaiteh no get computer, ha! ha! ha!
...and even if you give am computer, e no go know wetin for do wit am."
Uche: "She can get the same information in the public library for free if only she can get her tail over there."
Ekaiteh: "Ok, ok wina leave me alone oh, before a go
file for my own divorce oh" {laughter}
Ogbeni: "Oh! oh! oh! you too want to ring our the
old and ring in the new? huh!"
Abbey: "She wan show say small no be sick eh!"
Ogbeni: "Ekaiteh, whatever you do, just remember say,
'Love should not hurt anyone weh e day
inside that love,' especially the children." "Beeko! I beg ooh!"
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The moral story behind this drama / movie is to ask: "When an African women, begins to make big money
more than her husband, should she loose her head and / or her culture?"
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ACT 2 Will be a DIVORCE COURT SCENE.
Characters will include but not limited to:-
JUDGE: Dada
Magestrate: Ola Rotimi
Baristers at Law: Obi, Abeke & Dele
-All in "Wig of Lawyer"
-Several divorce cases are acted but the common
factor is that all the cases for divorce
are filed by African female Nurses, showing the
sad trend of - DIVORCE AMONG US.
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ACT 3 - THE PAIN AFTER THE DIVORCE - with CHILDREN & PROPERTY Involved.
- A Crusade against Flimsy Divorce.
ACTORS in this scene will include:
-A DISTINGUISHED / Controvercial PREACHER { Emam Musa }
-CHILDREN of the Divorcees caught in the middle.
-Parents and EX-Inlaws - Friends & Foe...ha! ha! ha!
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