Tuesday, September 01, 2009

"Egbe gbarie kwa gi isi!"*

A heart - warming contemporary take on a classic Nigerian Igbo folk tale of two ambitious young village ladies and their foppish pastor.

"Egbe gbarie kwa gi isi!"

Two young village women who speak knowledgeably of helping their people, especially the youth...

"Egbe gbarie kwa gi isi!"

But who instead defraud their people and particularly "the youth," while in general stealing their fellow villagers blind...

"Egbe gbarie kwa gi isi!"

Leaving their village priest to face the wrath of his outraged flock

"Egbe gbarie kwa gi isi!"

Coming soon ...

There will even be cameo appearances portraying their natural nimble - fingered selves by dedicated Brackettville amateurs carefully reenacting the most most stirring parts of this heart - warming age - old African morality play, modeled upon the ancient 15th Century Nigerian Shango genre, for all this might make it more in line with a Yorùbá origin, rather than Igbo...

But in any case, it's a folk tale of mythological proportions with a unique early 21st century Saint Mary Magdalene's Catholic Parish angle...

"Egbe gbarie kwa gi isi!"*

*
A totally lying and mendacious Igbo to English translation would be something like: Little children, love one another, please!

If you really want to know, just ask any one of any number of Igbo speakers in your neighborhood, or campus!

"Egbe gbarie kwa gi isi!"

Coming soon to an astral plane close to yours...


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