Description
Nchuyekeh is a vivacious and inquisitive adolescent girl who finds a freshly cut head on her way to the farm. Convinced that the head responded to her question, she abandons her original mission and resolves to report her peculiar encounter directly to the chief, despite her mother’s protests. Would the talking head vindicate and save her from the dreadful sentence that awaits her at the chief’s palace? Would such punishment, if meted be commensurate with her offence? Find out Nchuyekeh’s fate in this short play that promises to entertain while raising vexing but pertinent questions about the fate of the modern African adolescent.
Praise for Because of My Mouth
“In Because of my Mouth, John K. Fokwang employs the format of a play to foreground and comment on critical social issues of his time. He accomplishes this by engaging both young and mature audiences as they discuss their respective concerns and challenges. In so doing, he reveals their prejudices, beliefs and shortcomings, individually and collectively.”
– Jude Fokwang, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Regis University, Denver, USA
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