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Ghost of Maroko resurrects in a place called Lekki
Sep 20, 2020
A scene from the play
It was the late Ronald Wilson Reagan, the Hollywood actor and unionist, who later became the 40th President of the United States of America that said: “As government expands, liberty contracts.”
Reagan, as the number one citizen of the State of California, before becoming the number one person of the U.S., the world’s political capital, must have at time been at the centre of government’s showcase of naked-power in carrying out its duties and trampling on citizens’ rights and damning the consequences, to know that the state in its mightiness can restrain a person’s or group of persons’ leeway.
Parach Theatre Brand absolutely captured this state’s aggravation in a historical play titled, A Place Called Lekki. Written by Olumide Badmus and directed by Babatomi Awoyale, the play will ever serve as a memento of Maroko, a low-income community in Eti-Osa, Lagos that was destroyed in 1990.
The play tells the horrific story of the eviction of the people of Maroko from their homeland. Witnessing her parents’ death, Bisi swears to take her own pounds of flesh on any soldier or their family members that cross her way. She lives with the mental torture, as she roams the nooks and crannies of Lagos, doing odd jobs and most times living a lascivious lifestyle just to actualise her dream.
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