"Dance of the Locusts" is title of one of my plays set in a rural Yoruba village in south western Nigeria in the 1950s.
A romantic drama inspired by Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka's play, The Lion and the Jewel.
I was angry that the romantic idealist school teacher, Lakunle lost the belle of the village, Sidi to the polygamous Chief Baroka , the Balè of the chiefdom of Ilujinle. So, in my "Dance of the Locusts", the teacher won in the end.
The parents of the belle of Itẹsiwáju, Wuraọlá the most beautiful maiden said she had been betrothed to the Asiwáju of Itẹsiwáju Kingdom and so there was no need for suitors, including. Olufẹmi, the young handsome village school teacher she was in love with.
The Asiwáju was rich and powerful and the only owner of a car in the kingdom. Olufẹmi had only a Raleigh bicycle which Wuraọlá enjoyed riding with him. But he was a poor teacher by traditional standards without any house or farmland.
All hopes seemed lost for Olufẹmi as their plans to elope failed until a conspiracy of the universe favoured him and Wuraọlá, when a thrumming swarm of thousands of locusts invaded the village at dawn. Olufẹmi quickly carried Wuraọlá on his bicycle and fled the village.
"To Ibadan, my love! Where I am going to go to the University of Ibadan to study Law and you will study to become a school teacher!"
"We will have beautiful children," she said.
- By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima,
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