Nation Without Power: A Radio Play

FADE IN:

SFX: KNOCKS AT THE DOOR.

(a beat)

ANOTHER KNOCK PUNCTUATED BY SILENCE. A

LOUDER SERIES OF KNOCKS FOLLOWED BY THE

CLEARING OF THROAT.

KING JAGERS: (IN HIS BARRITONE VOICE) Bawa, see who is at the door.

BAWA: Yes, your highness.

SFX: SOUND MADE BY SOMEONE ENTERING A ROOM: FEET DRAGGING; A DOOR SCREECHING.

KING MOSI: Good morning, big brother.

KING JAGERS: Hello my younger one. How are you?

KING MOSI: I'm fine.

KING JAGERS: How are you finding life in my Island?

KING MOSI: Splendid, I must confess.

KING JAGERS: Now that's what I call good compliment. Do sit down, please.

What'd you like to take for breakfast? Tea or otherwise?

KING MOSI: None.

KING JAGERS: Nonsense. Nobody rejects an offer from king Jagers, not even his blood brother.

KING MOSI: The fact is that I'm leaving, I must confess.

KING JAGERS: What? Leaving? How can you leave so abruptly at short notice?

KING MOSI: I just received a message that my people want to see me right away.

As a king I owe them a lot.

KING JAGERS: You are still the good Mosi I know. Anyway, since your intention of

leaving is good, you can have it your way.

KING MOSI: Before then, big brother, we need to talk.

KING JAGERS: About what?

KING MOSI: About the present state of things in your island. I think it is high time we address the shortcomings of your kingdom.

FX: SILENCE.

KING JAGERS: I don't know what you are talking about.

KING MOSI: Only recently I noticed that your island is in a serious predicament.

KING JAGERS: (SUDDENLY FURIOUS) Nonsense. What absurd insult! How dare

you say that my island is in a serious predicament. I hope you have

not come all the way from ZANZAM to touch my temper, young one.

If that's what you have come to do, then you have made a mistake.

This island lacks nothing. Starting from offshore to onshore you will