Aunt Kemi believes that nine-year-old Yemisi and six-year-old Bolu are better off hawking on the streets as traffic jam kids than being in school. But Yemisi devises an unusual way of educating herself and her brother - and the tables are turned on Aunt Kemi.
Aunt Kemi believes that nine-year-old Yemisi and six-year-old Bolu are better off hawking on the streets as traffic jam kids than being in school. But...
Nine-year-old Junior Nelson experiences pain and shock when he sees what he shouldn't see. His travails deepen when the grown-ups in his world do not believe his story. Should he now tell a lie to please society and keep his family from unraveling? Junior's confusion is unabated as he watches truth and disbelief wrestle in mortal combat. This book won the 2003 ANA/MATATU Prize for Children's Literature.
Nine-year-old Junior Nelson experiences pain and shock when he sees what he shouldn't see. His travails deepen when the grown-ups in his world do not ...
Junior and his family get entangled in culture and tradition and have to visit the village to straighten things out. But tradition and her servants can be treacherous, and their deceit leads the Nelson family into the Evil Forest - a perilous place haunted by a mysterious goat that does all but talk, a marauding band of hideous-looking kidnappers, and a leopard that likes to eat children without first brushing its teeth. As if this is not enough, lurking in the forest, determined to do Junior deadly harm, is... Yes, Aunty Felicia The evil Aunty Felicia
Junior and his family get entangled in culture and tradition and have to visit the village to straighten things out. But tradition and her servants ca...
Two mischievous chiefs scheme to overthrow a wise and good king. In the rib-cracking plot are the fifty singing children of one of the chiefs, his fifteen quarrelsome wives and his shoulder-climbing pet monkey. But are these any help against the wisdom of the king? Only the sea and tides can tell...
Two mischievous chiefs scheme to overthrow a wise and good king. In the rib-cracking plot are the fifty singing children of one of the chiefs, his fif...
"Jael" is a three-act play inspired by the biblical story of Jael. It drives powerfully home the irony that Jael, an outsider to God's covenant with Israel, had a strong and eager faith that won her timeless honor, while Barak, at the center of the covenant and for whom destiny was crying, balked in his faith and as a consequence ceded grounds of honor.
"Jael" is a three-act play inspired by the biblical story of Jael. It drives powerfully home the irony that Jael, an outsider to God's covenant with I...
Chuma, the thirteen-year-old village terror, has no plans to mend his ways. But one day, he gets stuck in leopard country and must decide whether to keep being bad or to be good for once and obey an old man who wants to help. Is Chuma too far gone in wickedness to choose right? The decision he takes will lead to escape or disaster. What will Chuma choose? The leopards are waiting, snarling...
Chuma, the thirteen-year-old village terror, has no plans to mend his ways. But one day, he gets stuck in leopard country and must decide whether to k...
"Joseph" is a play inspired by the biblical account of Joseph son of Jacob when he wakes a prisoner in a dungeon but will sleep at night a Prime Minister. While being entertained by song and dance and the funny antics of gargantuan puppet heads in this play, we are incisively reminded of God's power to produce stunning reversals in the affairs of men and nations. And of course, we re-learn that most wonderful and desperately needed lesson of forgiveness.
"Joseph" is a play inspired by the biblical account of Joseph son of Jacob when he wakes a prisoner in a dungeon but will sleep at night a Prime Minis...
In this one-act play featuring only two characters, a writer and a publisher, we glimpse the difficulties facing the full-time creative writer. The wolves snarl on all sides, with only one friend in sight - who of course turns out to be the most ferocious wolf.
In this one-act play featuring only two characters, a writer and a publisher, we glimpse the difficulties facing the full-time creative writer. The wo...
The crabs must stop pulling each other down and cooperate, if they hope to escape from the Man's basket at Crab Beach. Can they do this, or will they keep up their mindless selfishness and end up as crab soup? The clock is ticking and the cooking pot is on the boil
The crabs must stop pulling each other down and cooperate, if they hope to escape from the Man's basket at Crab Beach. Can they do this, or will they ...
"Born King" is a Nativity play with everything children love to have at Yuletide - familiar Christmas carols, exotic songs, choreographed dance, ballet, puppets and talking scenery, comedy and gob-stopping drama... all put to the use of gloriously celebrating the only one ever to be born a king - Jesus
"Born King" is a Nativity play with everything children love to have at Yuletide - familiar Christmas carols, exotic songs, choreographed dance, balle...