What has entertainment become for you in our world today? TV, Games, Phones or Movies at the cinema? Which ever it is, the content of what you are engaged in, is usually more worrisome than the platform. Do you have an idea how our fathers and forefathers were entertained not too long ago?
The Abuja Children's Bookclub resumed after two weeks of reading AN AFRICAN NIGHT'S ENTERTAINMENT on Saturday the 21st of October, 2017 at our usual venue Thought Pyramid Art Gallery, at number 18 Libreville crescent.
The book of the week An African Night's Entertainment seemed a little complicated for the children this week as it had lots of twists and turns, but they took it in good stride.
Salma Ekanem , our assistant coordinator for the day, summarized the book very aptly and proceeded to point the defects she gleaned from the storyline.
A story of desire and vengeance, this book starts with the longing of a wealthy man called Shehu for a child of his own and continues with the obsessive search by Abu Bakir for revenge on Shehu for luring away the woman he was to marry.
The themes include vital lessons for children from vegeance, entertainment, story telling and of course, we learned that though many times, life is not fair, it is our reaction to life's defects that determines our end.
And so, Cyprian Ekwensi's An African Night Entertainment is a window into life's twists and turns.
we are aiming to build imperfect children with perfect reactions to an imperfect life...And so, help us lord!
The younger children were eager to listen and contribute to the story we read - About The Match Girl.
It was a picture book and so it was easy for them to follow the story because of the pictures on every page - they looked forward to it.
There was a three - year - old, for the first time, who was able to answer my question about the talk Plan International gave. So cute. Somehow, he was able to remember some key things Mr Yunus mentioned...By Aunty Makcit Rindap
And then, with a short talk on working to build a hundred million thriving girls in Africa from Plan International, we ended the session.
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