Bush House, Independence and English-Speaking. 
A fictional monologue on estrangement and loss.
" ... Before and after independence. … I never went to school past class four but I know how to deal with life, what is important and what is not, what is to be valued and what is not, … how to deal with stress, whatever that this is this stress that everyone says it is the reason why people who go to school end up behaving like people who have not been to school, even worse. Worse. … This having to go to school and become something. How could you be all your life from infancy told you have to become something before you are anything…. It is what destroyed them. It is what destroys people. Such a process will get people losing themselves. Losing their minds. Won’t you? … " http://bit.ly/BushHouseBBC

Bush House. Written by Amma Birago. Performed by Chuma Nwokolo.

foolish virgin, usury and legal tender.	        
Africa Calling America. 
A letter. To the husbandman. His own with usury. 
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foolish virgin. written by amma birago. performed by aba arthur.

... That Black Africa was one country where every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none make them afraid?  Would you not rather Black Africa was a country? Where the only work allowed was farm, farm ritual sacred, farm decked with song and dance, farm propped with rhythms ancestral, rhythms pulsating and longing for otherworlds?  http://bit.ly/bantu4you

bantu is a noun. written by amma birago. performed by yasmin dixon.

… who’s your daddy? policing gated communities, upward mobility and insisting on the uppity that comes with the package. stand still for the ground you walk upon is holy. stand still, in fact stand way back … stay away from the cake and crip-walking on anglo-saxon holy ground.

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