"Leopard Woman" is a five-act play in which Philip Begho inventively uses a handful of characters to create an atmosphere raging with war-like intrigues and betrayals amid snarls from an army of leopards, impaled all through by the shining light of love undefiled and true, before which the tyranny of oracles and men must fall prostrate.

In this developmental play for children, Toju and Tosan, along with other child-hawkers, go through harrowing experiences that include being run over and kidnapped. But there are songs and dances aplenty, and by this fun-train the children instruct each other as well as the adults who control their world.

"Nebuchadnezzar" is a play inspired by the biblical account of King Nebuchadnezzar when he is exiled for seven years to the world of grass-eating beasts of the open fields. What does the ox or ass see and hear among the grasses? What Nebuchadnezzar sees and hears, at the point of his restoration, are enough to make us laugh to tears.

"Esther" is a five-act play in verse, powerfully dramatizing the biblical story of Esther. This enchanting rags-to-riches story in which hope annuls despair and produces a stunning reversal is treated with such fascinating flair that it is no wonder that "Esther" won Philip Begho the prestigious Association of Nigerian Authors Drama Prize in 1994.

"Jelly Baby" is a children's novel set around a little wisp of a boy barely the size of the AK47 each child must bear in a camp for boy soldiers during Sierra Leone's civil war. The book's impact on a journalist and critic elicited a call for it to be on the school desk of every child in the world.

John Bull Sobo, Junior's schoolmate, is so short - he's a runt. And runts aren't dangerous, are they? Well, John Bull Sobo is Armed forever with rubber bands and paper pellets, he can scare the living daylights out of an arena of pit bulls But is that all that makes John Bull So-Short so dangerous? No Junior catches him one day with Aunty Felicia He's Aunty Felicia's crony Or isn't he? Junior tries to find out - and what happens? Sparks and scraggy stars, that's what And a double dose of Aunty Felicia fireworks

Bully Boy is a horrible bully whose huge size makes his bullying more terrifying. He meets Junior in a children's center in Yola and wants to use him for punching practice. Junior is no coward, but what chances can such a small boy have against this beast of a bully? What is more, the dreaded Aunty Felicia wants to share in the fun. Ah, now we have a truly gazumping dose of trouble

"I'm the Drama Producer," declared Kwali. "The only drama scripts that will be produced in this television studio are those I approve " Piro, Pretty Girl, Flash, Bumsy and Kwali are twelve-year-olds on the hop for holiday fun and adventure. They realize that there is a tornado of thrills to be found in the mad world of adults and they only have to switch on the lights in play-acting country. In this episode they act as TV producers and cook up a sizzling pot of oven-dripping drama.

Barbie is a poor woodcutter's daughter living deep in the woods of Misara, far from royalty and splendor. But Barbie's kindness brings the royal palace down to her doorstep and now nothing can keep the brave and handsome prince of Misara from Barbie - not even Skink and Skank, two teeth-gnashing monster rats Or the dark and deadly schemes of secret enemies lurking in palace corridors

Sinister balls of fire start appearing in the kingdom of Manak and people mysteriously begin to vanish. When the heir to the throne, the handsome Prince Tak, falls victim to the horror, the land shrieks with panic and the kingdom seems doomed. Then Barbie, a lowly laundry-hand, arises and dares the flames. Her courage restores everything and Barbie wins for herself what no one in her humble position would ever have thought possible