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    I am Royalty
    I am Royalty
    I am Royalty
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    I am Royalty

    By Temienor Tuedon

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    Oyinbo, a war child spawn on the ruins of war, is consumed by an obsession for royalty. Will her vaulting pride and conceit allow her to take the lid off her pot of secrets and save her children? Events roll one upon the other, custom and tradition keep their rigid course and the king, the custodian of tradition, plays Hamlet even as the lives of the beautiful royal couple hang in the balance. Their mother, Oyinbo, holds on tenaciously to her royalty, undaunted even as her unwary princely husband, caught in the web of her scheming and conceit, takes a walk into the river to his untimely death leaving his best friend to take final possession of the bed that he had been sharing secretly over the years. In the intense hush that ensues, friend and wife sneak out of town under the cover of night in a race against shame.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTemienor Tuedon
    Release dateFeb 2, 2014
    ISBN9781311822871
    I am Royalty
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    Temienor Tuedon

    Temienor Tuedon was born in Warri and raised in Benin, both in Southern Nigeria, West Africa. He studied Literature in English at the University of Ife, Ile-Ife, Nigeria (now Obafemi Awolowo University) from where he graduated in 1978. After a spell as a Literature and English teacher, he embarked on a career in Human Resource Management with the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria where he was formally trained in that discipline and worked from 1981 – 1999. He obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism in 1999 and a Masters in Industrial and Labour Relations from the University of Lagos in 2002. He presently pursues mainstream occupations in farming, publishing and Human Resource Management Consulting and is based in Lagos, South-West Nigeria. He is married with children and has some six other plays as well as a text book on Human Resource Management to his credit.

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      I am Royalty - Temienor Tuedon

      I

      am

      ROYALTY

      By

      Temienor Tuedon

      Copyright 2014 By Temienor Tuedon

      Published at Smashwords

      ISBN 9781311822871

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      FOREWORD

      ABOUT THE PLAY AND THE PLAYWRIGHT

      I AM ROYALTY is the second of the three plays that make up the trilogy FROM THE WOMB OF TIME. What follows here is a preview of these three plays and a brief background of the playwright.

      From the intrigues and traditional politics in the royal courts of the Oba of Benin over five centuries ago to an odyssey, a classic chase and then warfare in the swamps and creeks of the Western Niger Delta and finally to a recognition of the futility of war, remorse and then peace and calm – and the community and Kingdom that rose from it all– the Okere Community in today’s Warri metropolis in Nigeria and the Warri Kingdom from which that city derived its name. The story is told lucidly in Ekpen – Tiger in the Swamps. It is a story of historical and epic proportion, one of valour, of conflicts between duty, loyalty and conviction and of their resolution.

      And on the ruins upon which a Kingdom anchored on the hope for peace was built, a war child also was spawned. The circumstances are informative and the name of the child significantly suggestive of the surreptitious incursion of some contaminating extraneous influence. The child raises her head in I am Royalty and schemes her way into the royal household. She sacrifices her two children to her vaulting ambition and vanity; and her unwary husband, caught in the web of her scheming and conceit, walks into a river to his untimely death leaving his best friend to take final possession of the bed that he had been secretly sharing. In the intense hush that ensues, friend and wife sneak out of town under the cover of night in a race against shame.

      They reincarnate nevertheless, bound in love and sin, in A Cock and Hen Story (aka Adam & Eve).

      Adam, a more or less schizophrenic and nagging husband, does not leave his wife, Eve, in peace as he seeks to make meaning of his existence even as his mind is cluttered by memories and notions of past lives and religious dogmas. His wife, emancipated in the extreme, would rather be a man whilst remaining a woman. Both of them slug it out in this season of anomie. They are the reason for the season. All the great questions are asked: what’s life all about - who am I - what am I doing here? – But adrift as they are, they find no footing to reach for answers. While Adam seems to have a premonition of loss, Eve is blissfully oblivious of their state and simply paddles on – which is an irony because the woman is supposed to be more intuitive than the man, a fact

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