Dance Of The Delta

EGO:
…How can oil that brings peace and progress in other lands bring only pain and punishment to us? When we had no oil, we were happier and at peace. When those long-nosed spirits from who knows where sniffed out oil on our land, we thought we had been blessed, but how wrong we were. May God save us from this curse!

CHIEF EZIOKWU:
It is not oil that is the problem. It is the greed of the human heart. What the oil brings can go round and all would be happy, but a few want to enjoy all the goodies alone. That’s the crux of the matter.

3RD YOUTH:
Until all the leeches in our land are lynched, we will neither know peace nor progress in this land.

This book is a curiously compact and taut dramatisation of the failure of leadership and fellowship in resolving the recurring conundrum of governance and development in the Niger Delta, that has national and international ramifications. This is not just a play, this is a sign post for securing world peace.

Chief Akpan and his fellow leeches have collaborated with the powerful oil company to subvert the will of the community for development. They elected for greed and self-enrichment at the expense of communal poverty, penury and regression.

Chief Eziokwu has been murdered by arsonists for standing up and bearing the light of truth.

The youths has been bought over as a result of ignorance, hunger and greed.

Now two very determined and unrelenting forces fight for the soul of the land in the Dance of the Delta.