Seven Years in Servitude Before a Restorer

By Uchenna C. Ismaila

“Seven Years in Servitude Before a Restorer” relates to issues of kidnapping, killing and abuse of communal leadership which have left the masses in terror, fear and desolation. This down-to-earth play is then a political satire through which the playwright uses as a narrative lens to capture the cruelties and brutal acts of the leaders over the led. Prince Nicholas, a leading terrorist, has his men who are depraved and corrupt, subjecting people into unwanted slavery. No one dares to question them because the prince is in power and thinks he can use it to get what he wants until death creeps in laying his icy hand on the king, and then a new king is chosen to restore the lost peace in the land.

                                      Fortune Nwaiwu

                    Author of The Devil in the Cathedral
                                 (Rivers State, Nigeria)

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookRix
• Release date: Mar 12, 2021
• ISBN: 9783748775874

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Seven Years in Servitude Before a Restorer

SEVEN YEARS IN SERVITUDE

BEFORE A RESTORER

A Play BY

COMR. UCHENNA C. ISMAILA

A Brief Note by the Editor – Fortune Nwaiwu

even Years in Servitude Before a Restorer" relates to issues of kidnapping, killing and abuse of communal leadership which have left the masses in

terror, fear and desolation. This down-to-earth play is then a political satire through which the playwright uses to capture the cruelties and brutal acts of the leaders over the led. Prince Nicholas, a leading terrorist, has his men who are depraved and corrupt. They are seen as agents of destruction, subjecting people into unwanted slavery. No one dares to question them because the prince is in power and thinks he can use it to get what he wants. This brutality continues until king Ome-Ka-Nna-Ya becomes extremely sick. The prince after consulting the eyes of the gods to know the state of the king’s health realises that the gods are silent to reveal whether the king would live or die. This uncertainty of divination leads him to meet with another witch doctor, who falsely divulges that Agwoturumbe – the eyes of the gods is responsible for the king’s sickness. In order to avert an impending doom that would erupt in the