Wizard Of Law, Remember it? Children Think Differently

For our second law themed book and third play since the inception of our amiable club, The Abuja Children's Bookclub, Zulu Sofola's Wizard of Law made for interesting reviews by the older children aged 8 to 13years.

The younger class of 5-7+ featured above also had their memorable outing with them saying the book club was very interesting.

After our prayers, the children had lots to say about their various just concluded exams and upcoming end of session ceremonies.

We proceeded to read 5 short but very fun stories titled The Sailor Boy

The Magic Stone,

The Magic Flute,

The Elephant who hated his trunk

and The Dream Fairy.

The children took turns reading and learnt some important lessons from the stories.

The major lesson that all the stories carried is that it is important to help others in need and be kind to everyone...Says Didi.






We celebrated with our very own Makcit The purple Diva, singing a birthday song and taking pictures. It was truly an amazing time of learning and having fun.

In this play, a poor lawyer Ramoni who was living on past glory defrauded a trader Rafiu, tricking him into selling yards of expensive material and pretending to be mad when it was time to pay up.

As a lawyer defending Akpan, Rafiu goat keeper whom he sued to court for losing all his goats, the sneaky Ramoni advised his client to pretend to be a goat during the court session in order to support his argument that Rafiu inhumane treatment turned his goat keeper mental.
In the end, Ramoni won his case with his cunning plan. But when it was time to collect his money, Akpan continued acting like a goat to the consternation of Ramoni as he realized his trick had backfired.

This comedy made for an easy read as agreed upon by the children.

First we discussed the themes which include dishonesty, theft, and a cunning lifestyle with instances from the play.


We learned that Acts and Scenes are to drama what chapters are to prose.

 With only two children aspiring to be lawyers, the club members surprisingly praised the cunning acts of Ramoni, some noting that he was very wise.

 Well we agreed that wisdom should not be exchanged for cunningness.

We had a divided class on who the real victim in the drama was. Rafiu who aimed at cheating Ramoni by overpricing his material and was defrauded twice, Ramoni who lost the money he was hoping for when his plan backfired, or Akpan who was not making enough money to feed himself that he had to eat Rafiu's goats that died. The general consensus was Rafiu...(Of course).



Lessons learned? Some kids were focused on the fact that you reap what you sow, some noted that having a bad reputation is horrible,  and others agreed that there's no excuse for bad behavior.

The day ended on a very high note with a birthday song rendition for Purple Diva. These pictures will let you in on the birthday picture session, certainly not a taste of Kays Pastries, but well...

Great lessons in all.