Odiedo Stephen

Baron Sameddi (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

IMANNA OF SPLENDOUR , Rwanda's Goddess of life and death is distraught that the Kenyans who are boasting to have captured time for "the next sixty years" are coming to Kigali to revel - before she, IMANNA , has mourned all her dead of the Rwanda Genocide. To mourn all her dead by name - before the Kenyans come to Kigali to celebrate the next sixty years - IMANNA invites the Haitian God of the dead BARON SAMEDDI to grant her advice. Baron Sameddi comes to Rwanda in the company of a milliard invisible zombies among whom is LEGBA prankster god of mayhem.

On the name day of the year IMANNA OF SPLENDOUR welcomes NEFERTITI to Rwanda. NEFERTITI has walked thousand upon thousand years in search of answers for her husband AKHENATEN'S soul. At the naming of his name on living tongue, the ancient curse upon Pharaoh Akhenaten is lifted - just as the curse of the unnamed, unmourned dead is lifted from the souls of Rwanda's dead when BARON SAMEDDI shows IMANNA how to name all her dead on the night of 7th December, 2019.

The state orders the arrest of Baron Sameddi and his retinue of zombies - but the arrest turns into a zombie masque honouring and naming by name Rwanda's genocide dead. an enraged CYBER WARRIOR agent of the state goes on a hunting trip in search of AFRIKKA who must die if CYBER WARRIOR ever catches up with her in her place of exile. In the end, for the Messiah Who Art in Statehouse Kigali life becomes a daily parade of the Rwanda Genocide dead - and those Rwandans who have died violent deaths ever since Messiah Who came to Art in Statehouse Kigali.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Odiedo Stephen
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781393729075
• Artikelnr.: 58394082

Autorenporträt

As a poet, playwright, essayist and novelist my writing dramatizes individuals confronting the fearsome might of the almighty African state in 3rd Millennium Africa. This is the fearful drama of lives violently torn apart on the urban African landscape - lives caught at the crossroads of modern Africa. I write on the tragic drama of lives cast adrift by the death of an anchoring ancient tradition killed by the triumphant march of the fearsome African state.

AFRAHA https://books2read.com/u/mdWjZl is the drama of lives dominated by the tragic irony that the almighty African state, the new secular god welcomed with so much hope and fanfare at independence in the last millennium, is now this fearsome monster devouring all: the "enemies of the state." As the ironic "withering of the state" gathers pace, uprooted Africans are rushing back into the past to resurrect a monstrous version of a long rejected tradition - shattering lives outcast from tradition and targeted as "enemies" by a vengeful remorseless African state unrestrained neither by tradition (discredited) nor by constitutional law (elitist, effete, ineffectual against the state).

My play TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE https://books2read.com/u/bpjyrX was the 1st Prize Award winner of the DAILY NATION NEWSPAPER 1995 playwriting competition. My plays have been shortlisted on BBC African Performance and BBC International Playwriting Competition. OSIRIS OF THE SLUMS - submitted to the BBC International Playwrights Competition was a finalist for the 1999 BBC International Competition.

Since my play TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE https://books2read.com/u/bpjyrX won the 1st Prize Award in the DAILY NATION NEWSPAPER playwriting competition I have continued to write poems, plays and novels thanks to the favour of the Muse herself, IMANNA of Splendour. I thank flame-haired Imanna Goddess for her kindnness.