Life in the Grave
KES 350
Categories: African Literature, Contemporary African Fiction
"My father, mother and I are like ghosts. We are far away from the real world and our home where all these is happening is like a grave.
I cannot go to the world of the dead because I am not yet dead and I cannot go to the living because I am dead"
Life in the Grave highlights the social plight of a girl subjected to harmful, primitive and retrogressive cultural practices at the expense of her education and promising potential by the very hands that should have otherwise protected her.
Through education and the law however, she flourishingly comes out high and loud to benefit the very people and society that tried to rob her.
This is a play of intriguing episodes full of dramatic twists and intertwined themes.