Birds of a Feather

First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye. Anjawo lives to regret after her womb blossoms, delivering eleven children, dumped to her care by her husband who goes tumbling head-first to a juicier relationship.

Anjawo gains notoriety for her deals in illicit brew and drugs that hook the innocent young generation of the school going age and ruins their future. Her behaviour condones alcohol and drug abuse, causing curses from parents whose children are affected and wives grappling with vagaries of having absentee husbands addicted to Anjawo’s illicit products. She remains adamant and snorts: “Who forced it into their mouths?”. She masters the art of unsolicited offer to sanitise her wrongdoings.

Anjawo’s experience with her last five children is humbling and portrays a curse depicted in the biblical verse – “Do unto others as you’d have them do unto you.”. They go haywire, messing with impunity, reminding her of her own sins whenever she administers corrective measures. The surrounding community blames it on the hand of God, stretched out to give her the right dosage for spoiling other people’s children by influencing them into drug and alcohol abuse.

Birds of a Feather, written from a village social setup and extended to urban life experiences reflects the realities of life in situations of alcohol and drug abuse, peer influence, and poor parenting. It has a commodious focus on humour, satire and etiquette and explores areas such as human rights, governance, inter-tribal marriage as a tool for national unity and other relevant social issues.