AJUMA (GRAND FINALE ) -A TRIP TO THE WORLD OF FANTASY

Wow what a wonderful week of celebration! Happy Sallah to our Muslim brothers and to some of us that ceased that opportunity to travel to visit loved ones. Welcome to a new week with James Inas on "a trip to the world of fantasy". For some of you that have being following my series, today I will be posting the last episode of "AJUMA". And this episode is like the height of it all...

Let's take a little detour as usual, during the week I travelled to see my aunty in Ankpa. Last I saw her was when I was 12years, then she visited Enugu for the first time. But This time when visited her, of course she has grown older and I could barely recognize her when she came to pick me up from the park. Later when we got to the house a dialogue ensued and she said somethings to me that I think I should share. One important thing that struck me was her " fishing" metaphor of life. She said that life is like a fishing activity, where the Fisher man throws his net in different directions and what ever he catches he puts into his own bag. If he catches fish,scorpion,crab,oyster everything goes into his purse. So she said that everything we do to others good or bad still falls back to us. This reminds me of "Karma" what I call the "bitchy goddess" that sticks her big nose on matters not of her concern,and the fact that the world is round but reality is spiral.
So we should be careful of our relation with people and impression and impact we make.

That said, let's hit back to the business of the day, "AJUMA". On this last episode  you cannot afford to miss the argument between the parent as they make Clearer their point of views.

Episode 4
Series: AJUMA

                  ...

   Mother:
         Of less concern,really?
         Because she is a girl?
         What makes a girl?
         The course of tradition?
         The custom of societies?
         Or the fact that she is human,
        Just as a man is?
        We are justly one;
        But blinded by the folly
       Of our ignorance and superiority:
        None " IS",without the other.
       We are bunch of same stuff
       Assuming the form of duality
       We are the same reality.

Father:
       Still your rage or rage mine
       We're bunch of same stuff
       Assuming the form of duality;
       We are same reality.
       I buy your business on this,
      But what happens to functionality
      That defines the state of being?
      Our place in the society,
      Which is the business of our culture?
     Woman, bore me of this no more!
     Save your strength for what you have
     And not what you wish for.
     Besides, if we are same reality,
     Learn to regard nature's course.

I tried as much as I could to present this episode in sonnets,  both of which tries to take a stand. Here the dialogue got tensed and the point of view of each interlocutor seem Clearer. Both interlocutors were trying to portray and defend the place of a girl child. The mother was trying to understand what actually defines the place of the girl child. She asked if it was tradition, society, custom or the fact that we are all humans. For her the boy child and the girl child should be treated, respected, and accorded equal opportunity and consideration. And that the only point of "difer-rence" arise from our ignorance of the idea of one reality and our need for dominance and superiority.
The father on the other edge do not disagree totally with her but portrays a different point of view. For him, beings are defined by their role and function, and this function is as a result our cultural habit which is inseparable from humans. He finally threw a sarcastic shade, that if the woman so advocate the oneness of reality, that the boy child and the girl child is same, she should learn to appreciate the course or form nature has decided to take and save her strength for it.

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