Skip to main content

REVENGE


    A play
 wake- keeping grounds.
     Sober mood, with people crying quietly
   
 Maame Kyerewaa bursts in, waving a white handkerchief, singing loudly 'So so wonders Jesus dey do'

Papa Kyei's head suddenly shoots up, wondering if someone had entered his compound mistakenly

'Hai, has she gone mad'?, Some women whisper among themselves .Sarfoaa,whose son has been laid in state cries even louder and her sisters try to calm her .

 Maame Kyerewaa is approached by the Abusuapanyin(family head); Maame, gyai(stop), your rival has lost her child.
 “Oh really? You are really sure I'm not aware?” She asks and raises another song 'He has done for me, what my father could not do'.
“Ei Maame, are you going mad?”  someone asks incredulously, “Leave her, she is a witch!” another boldly shouts. 
Maame stops, looks at the person, smiles and starts dancing afresh, ‘God of Miracles’
Sarfoaa springs out of her chair and before anyone is able to stop her reaches Maame Kyerewaa and holds her. 
'Madam, aden?(why),Even if he's not your child, are you not human. Are you not a woman? Don't you have compassion?”

  Kyerewaa stops, kneels, raises her hands to heaven, “Ah,Onyame,medaase”

Sarfoaa ,tears streaming down her face yells, "God will punish you, evil woman!"

  Kyerewaa raises herself up, 'Hahaha, but why?”

 “Why?” Papa Kyei approaches, his hands stretched as if ready to slap her, ‘My son, is dead and you are here dancing and you ask why?”

'Oh but is it strange for someone’s son to die?’ she asks, feigning shock. 

 At this point people start picking stones, ready for someone to start so they can all continue,

 Even if you are happy about my son's death, your husbands son, do you have to show it?”

“ Oh I shouldn't show my happiness eh,mmm, I didn't know”.
“ You are a very evil woman, you probably have a hand in my son's death”,Sarfoaa yells.

Laughs even louder 'fantastic, I have been waiting for you to say this, finally. If I have a hand in your sons death so?”
   Papa Kyei holds her kaba,
Oh man, leave me, where was your strength when this witch you married after me came to our home and killed my three year old daughter?”

‘ Huh’! He yells, leaving her abruptly.

‘ Phew!, Ask her, at that time you weren't so bothered because she told u she was pregnant!’

 Papa Kyei stops and stares at Kyerewaa,who continues calmly “ I say ask her ooo ask her”,she turns to Sarfoaa

  “Madam God will punish me do you remember? This woman stole my husband, married him, and killed my daughter on top. I said nothing but waited patiently when the fetish priest told me, after consulting him. I asked him to avenge me one day, but I had him wait, for 23years until her son graduated from the university' 
‘Eiiii’, the people gathered scream in disbelief and turn to Sarfoaa who is suddenly remembering this.

Papa Kyei stands quietly, tears on his face. 'You waited till on his graduation night to pay her back?” 'Sharp!”,Kyerewaa smiles again.

He turns and walks into his room ,locking the door behind him.

Labels

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A god’s election.

All the houses that led to the Kansie shrine had no aluminum roofing. The first thing you noticed at the premises were the skull of donkeys in the rocks that housed the shrine. The skulls were kept buried because whenever it was left in the sun, the entire village suffered migraines. Everyone who entered the shrine had to be topless. No one ever returned from Kansie still bearing whatever issue had caused them to enter into it in the first place. This was where recognized fetish priests sought fortification from; and where they directed important people to seek help when they knew they could not handle the situation they brought with them. One had to be parsimonious and ready to do as was directed, because when the gods decided on what sacrifice they wanted, no appeal was heard. The national election was in two weeks and Fynn Aggrey was contesting. This was his second time running and although six others had picked up nomination forms, it was a clear contest between Fynn and Nii A...
8 comments
Read more

Cardi and the Pastor's words

Imagine students offering different programs being placed in one exam center to write different papers, but arranged in such a way that one offering medicine is seated next to one offering law and before them another offering engineering with one behind one reading something theologically related. And the person writing law starts drawing on his paper because he sees another student drawing some diagrams even though he has no idea what the diagrams are about. Or a first year law student writing a jurisprudence paper and a first year student writing a one credit language proficiency test seated next to each other. Then the first year student gets offended because he is given an hour to write his test and the other is given three hours. Brother, you are all in the same hall but your papers are not the same. Unfortunately we tend to sometimes have this attitude in life. We have a business that is doing well because we are able to well manage the size of it; then suddenly someone tells...
1 comment
Read more

I want to be like you..,sure?

Just before he entered University of Ghana he was involved in an accident so had to move around with the aid of crutches. During that time, there was intermittent supply of water, meaning he needed to go fetch some for use. His cousin who had been helping him throughout his registration had left after he got his room and bed.  Now there he was, standing in front of the hall, with a bucket by his side, metals in his legs, P.O.P around them and holding his crutches; feeling extremely depressed wondering how he was supposed to function in school without any help; asking himself if he should have just stayed home. But right there, he saw another student walking towards the hall, a visually impaired student, tapping the ground with his cain as he made his way slowly into the hall. He said that was the last time he allowed himself to ever get depressed about whatever situation he found himself in, because as bad as he felt his present situation was, he had so many other things going on ...
5 comments
Read more