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This is the true story of Ugomma an African notorious beauty queen. She was married twice both her husbands being polygamous. Her fi rst marriage to Chief Ibeneme lasted barely a year. After committing abormination with her brother in-law Oga Mike. Soon after, both were dragged to the outskirt of Ndiowu town, where they got stripped of their clothes before been subjected to prolonged beating and mandatory twenty four lashes of a cane on their bare butts.

She was barred from returning to her husband’s home in Ndiown indefi nitely, and was eventually handed over to her parents with nothing and without sympathy.

In addition, she was ordered to reimburse her husband Chief Ibeneme for the expenditure she had incurred. Her accomplice, Oga Mike, was banned from returning for forty-eight hours.

A few years later after her divorce, she met Chief Obi, whom she married, but after few months she found herself in a vulnerable position, tragically caught up in a ritual murder orchestrated by her so-called husband, to whom she devoted her life with love and trust.

THE MEN WHO WRESTLE WITH GOD is written in Nigerian setting and reveals what powers and desires can do to man. To Satisfy their desires, four chiefs of Aneile Kingdom: Ebiloma, Abalaka, Ocheja and Idachaba conspire among themselves to displace the Supreme Heavenly Powers and dethrone King Onuchowgu, the annointed one. The Chiefs seek the collaboration of Ogecha, the Chief Priest of the Kingdom and the battle line is now drawn. It is humanity versus divinity; mortals against the immortals; the terrestrial against the celestial and the physical against the metaphysical! Aneile is boiling in calamity. Innocent women, children and youth are dying. Famine, diseases, evil, oppression and injustice now torment the land, yet the chiefs are adamant to wrestle with the powers from the above. They are sure of nothing short of victory. Can any opponent be underestimated in a battle? Will the order of things still remain the same at the end of the battle? Is it going to be the case of a dog wagging the tail or the tail wagging the dog at the end? The world has never in history recorded a battle as awe-striking as this!

The image of Salma‘s sad countenance came before his eyes painful and suffering although she didn’t complain at all, since she came to live with him he didn’t make her feel, he is close to her or care about her, he created a barrier between them. She couldn’t dare to complain to him because of the huge distance between them. What is wrong with him to be so indifferent about Salma, his beloved child? His toil for livelihood to support his family and the drudgery of work preoccupied all his time that her forgot her and her dear mother who entrusted her to him before she died. Why does he spend most of his time outside the house? Is it because of his work or because of the strange aversion he feels towards the two boys? Where is his daughter now and with whom? Did she go out to look for a kind word? Does she go out to escape from the stiffing atmosphere in the house? Would he lose her? Is it too late to save her? He sat anxiously waiting for her return with fears doubts, misgivings and suspicions.

The image of Salma‘s sad countenance came before his eyes painful and suffering although she didn’t complain at all, since she came to live with him he didn’t make her feel, he is close to her or care about her, he created a barrier between them. She couldn’t dare to complain to him because of the huge distance between them. What is wrong with him to be so indifferent about Salma, his beloved child? His toil for livelihood to support his family and the drudgery of work preoccupied all his time that her forgot her and her dear mother who entrusted her to him before she died. Why does he spend most of his time outside the house? Is it because of his work or because of the strange aversion he feels towards the two boys? Where is his daughter now and with whom? Did she go out to look for a kind word? Does she go out to escape from the stiffing atmosphere in the house? Would he lose her? Is it too late to save her? He sat anxiously waiting for her return with fears doubts, misgivings and suspicions.

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Sauni is a young lady who has been through complicated relationships in the past. Staying single seems to work for her since she can’t seem to find “the one”. People are constantly saying how all of the good men are taken, but Sauni refuses to give up on the hope that there is a least one more knight and shining armor waiting for her. Then, Silas comes into her life and shows her a whole new world. Just when they are ready to make it official the walls come crashing down.

Sauni is a young lady who has been through complicated relationships in the past. Staying single seems to work for her since she can’t seem to find “the one”. People are constantly saying how all of the good men are taken, but Sauni refuses to give up on the hope that there is a least one more knight and shining armor waiting for her. Then, Silas comes into her life and shows her a whole new world. Just when they are ready to make it official the walls come crashing down.

The appointment of a renegade son of the soil as Warrant Chief by the white District Officer is received with utter consternation by the warrior kingdom of Umudimkpa. In a bid to assert his authority, he opts for a showdown with the aged regency, exploiting the native police and the services of a dreaded juju man to unleash a reign of terror on the land. His rabid obsession with power finds ready capital in the unfortunate shooting of a white preacher by a lone native. He sets himself on a demolition course against the whole community, hounding the men and grabbing their women, heedless of marriage or betrothal tags. He is a scorpion gone beserk. But would he dare to sit on the ancient throne of the kingdom with its deadly myths, mystique and taboos? When The Scorpion is the third in the author’s The Umudimkpa Discourse, a series of plays set in history in the Igboland of Nigeria. Like its thrilling precursors (the much acclaimed Shadows of the Ancestors and the hilarious Your Man, Abednego) this four-act play is a feast of culture, history and literature. It maintains an essential thematic thrust and historical congruency but pushes new frontiers of form and vibrancy with a stunning use of improvisations and the exploration of symbolism. This work deserves its plaudits and underscores Onyechi Mbamali’s amazing depth and brilliance as wordsmith and playwright.….

This three-act play exploits youth radicalism in exploring the course and outcome of a brand of idealism which disregards the settled order in the pursuit of a social change objective. The great ruler of Umudimkpa, a land of warriors, has just passed away. He leaves behind a great legacy, but his cabinet of high chiefs is riven with differences in commitment to his reform programme which abolished slave killing all through the kingdom. His son, Ifediba, a very young man, receives the coded call to return post-haste from his hunting fields, a royal reserve where as crown prince he reigns in wait. To everyone’s consternation, the young prince tarries beyond reason. When he finally shows up, it is with a handful of trouble as he has put a slave girl from the neighbouring kingdom of Umuachala in the family way and insists on marrying her. The bruising slight to the slave girl’s mistress (the princess of Umuachala whom he is expected to marry) is aggravated by the ill-advised decision to abduct (“liberate”) her parents and siblings. There is unprecedented tension and threat of war between the two powerful kingdoms which had shared a history of unbroken peace for ages. Umudimkpa is never late to battle but Umuachala does not spare. Ifediba proclaims total emancipation of slaves and needs the support of the elders represented by the high chiefs to move against Umuachala and possibly unite both kingdoms. The dramatic clash of vision is followed by a total breakdown in communication. Ifediba, feeling let down, turns hostile and resolves to shake up the revered cabinet of high chiefs, right after his coronation. But the elders move overnight to bury their own feuds and close ranks – their mantra: “kingdom is people.” An important meeting is scheduled to move the kingdom out of the empasse. On the eve of the meeting, Ifediba’s mother, one of the three wives of the demised monarch, cracks under severe emotional stress and her demented effusions raise serious paternity questions about all her children including the crown prince himself.