#AnAbstract Kudaro: Since my father will not allow me to marry him and his father will not allow him to marry me, we have planned to run away- and get married. So if you wake up one morning and do not find me, know that I have gone to get married. But please, do not tell anybody. Ayi: I shall tell no one, Madam. I am sorry that if you run away your father and mother will be very sad; your lessons, too, will stop, and your teacher will be very disappointed. Kudaro: Teacher? That half-wit, that humbug, that...oh, to remind me of him! Half the day I dont know what he is talking about. I always feel like breaking his head with an axe when he uses those big words; Queens English, he calls it. Ayi: But he is clever, Madam. Kudaro: Maybe to you villagers, yes. But to me, no. Ayi: Why dont you like his type of Queens English? Kudaro: (agitated). The Queen or any Parliament would gladly forbid him to pronounce a word of English the way he carries on. But you must not be impudent, woman. Ayi: I am sorry. Madam, I still think that the man is clever and educated. All we want here is a useful villager, and Bambulu is a good teacher. The children like him, and your father thinks very well of him. Kudaro: Whatever my father thinks of him is his own business. I dont care. I dont like his teaching. I like the school in big cities. (Bambulu walks in, four large books in hand with a small dark bottle) Bambulu: (in a breezy and academic fashion). This is the child of my brain, the product of my endeavour, and the materialisation of my inventive genius. It is an anti-snake-bite vaccine. Western science has not succeeded in producing anything so potent. But I, Bambulu (striking his chest) have, without laboratories, without help, produced this medicine from the herbs of this village. (growing more triumphant). I am a scientist, I am an analyst, I am a catalyst. You may one day find this anti-snake-bite vaccine very useful. It is a remedy not only for snake bite and various insect stings, but also for various canine and reptilian contingences. (wipes his face with handkerchief). And, by the way, you may revise the lesson on vitamin for tomorrow. (Hands the bottle to her). Kudaro: (protesting). Oh, Bambulu, we have done vitamins for over a week. Bambulu: Do it for another week. It is a revolutionary discovery in science, second, of course, to my own discovery, both of which, however, constitute an epoch in scientific and prophylactic therapeutics. Kudaro: Must I always ask you to explain yourself? Why cant I understand you whenever you speak first? Bambulu: (patronisingly). Little Princess, it is not your fault or mine that you do not understand the Queens... #Through #JamesEneHenshaw #IMetBambulu #Before #PatrickObahiagbon
Posted on: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 09:44:10 +0000
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