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“The pain of the Niger Delta inhabitants unfold right before our eyes and we are more than just spectators; we are partakers and sharers of their fears and grief, their frustration and sense of impotence.
One should picture a lump forming in one’s throat as the queen laments the death of her young prince, the chorus of hidden voices heightening and drawing out the evocative quotient of the scene. The question on everyone’s lips as they walked out of the play was ‘what can we do to fix this?’
The play ends on a note of hope; all the characters save Memekize chose to leave the war-ridden state to seek a new life in Port Harcourt. Whilst this is a hopeful solution for the individual characters, it also serves as a warning to both the government and the militants of what will happen if the conflict does not end soon… The state will be stripped of its bright young minds and left desolate as surely as the rivers have been stripped of life by the environmental pollution.
It is often said that art mirrors life. Yerima’s Little Drops… has captured the complexity of the Niger Delta conflict and portrays it in a very personal way from the point of view of the real victims; the women and children who have lost so much.”
Read more: The Guardian Nigeria
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