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Category:
Drama
Publisher: Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing
Type: Fiction
Pages: 139
Copyright: May 17, 2017
ISBN-13: 9781521313817
Price: $2.99 (eBook)
He is the lone prince among a family of nine princesses in a male chauvinistic society, where polygamy is a rule and patrilineal inheritance is a norm. The princesses are bent on challenging the ethos of tradition and yet destiny has its own course and purpose. The first of the Trilogy. Enjoy!
SYPNOSIS
“In His Journey to Fame” is a captivating story set somewhere in Africa, where polygamy is a rule, making male children kings is a law and patrilineal inheritance is a norm.
A young prince is born into a family of nine adult princesses, who have ambitions to ascend the ultimate crown when their father dies. Ably supported by their mothers, these princesses hatch snares for the young prince in order to eliminate him.
The struggles, trauma, hardships, treachery, deceit and death are beautifully mace and put in a matrix where both the King and the heir apparent died in the processes leaving the nine princesses to battle it out with the young daughter of the prince in their quest to occupy the powerful stool.
In the end it is an all women affair to break the rules, laws, norms and finally tradition.
Excerpt
FADE IN
Scene One
Classroom INT/DAY
The famous Akokoduro Local Authority cluster of schools stand at the western end of the town. The schools are mushroomed by the thick natural forest, which has been left unattended for the past two hundred (200) years as a protected national heritage site. In times past, some students from the schools were alleged to have been abducted by gnomes and kept for at least six months and sometimes years. These young boys and girls, who fell victim to these strange occurrences are released and placed under big Odum trees, banana plantations, roof-tops of buildings and sometimes in the middle of nearby rivers. Townfolks talk about such incidents as myths but in reality they are true.
It is at one of this cluster of schools that Nana Addai, the overall ruler of Akokoduro teaches. Nana Addai, a well-built man in his late fifties stands in front of class six (6) students. There are thirty (30) students in the classroom with eighteen boys and twelve girls. He walks majestically to the blackboard and writes: Polygamy.
A Medium shot of Nana Addai as he turns to face the class. Camera zooms out to reveal a long shot of the whole class.
NANA ADDAI: Polygamy is a killer in our homes. It has done more harm than good to our society and yet tradition and certain religions revere it.
A close shot of the right hand of a student. Camera zooms out to reveal the student.
NANA ADDAI: (Off Screen)
Yes! Pamford, Is it a question or contribution?
Pamford stands as Nana Addai walks away from the black board to resume his seat at the extreme right corner of the classroom besides the main entrance.
PAMFORD: A question, sir. Upon all the problems
associated with polygamy, why is it still popular in our tradition and certain religious homes?
Pamford sits down. Nana Addai looks at him silently and nods. Nana Addai slowly gets up from his chair and smiles. Camera gives montage shots of the students listening to the discourse with rapt attention.
NANA ADDAI:Well, in the good old days, the wealth of a man was measured by the number of wives and the size of children he has to help him work in his farms.
Truly, Polygamy is about respect in society, adoration and reverence. But as many people try to acquire formal education or indulges in Western white weddings as well as the current economic hardships, the practice is dying out gradually, particularly in the cities and urban centres. Again, you will agree with me that bigamy is a crime punishable by law in this country.
Another student also raises his hand and Nana Addai signals him to speak with his right hand. The student, Adomako stands up.
ADOMAKO:(Confused) But sir, as a teacher, you are well educated
and yet you have four wives……… why?
THE WHOLE CLASS: (Clapping and tapping their feet)
Hahahahaha…………
NANA ADDAI:(Taken aback)
Yeah, Adomako! That’s right. But in my time life was good, not as expensive as it is today.
Remember the saying, “the good old days….”
Nana Addai resumes his seat again.
FADE OUT
The beginning credits roll on a black background with a soothing high-life musical tune to go with it.
HIGH-LIFE MUSIC: Yaa Amponsa eee m’egyae awaree, Yaa Amponsaa eee m’egyae aware…………………......
The beginning credits end.
FADE IN
Scene Two
Palace EXT/DAY
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