Williams Shakespeare, “King Charles III,” Act 1 Scene 1.

Williams Shakespeare, “King Charles III,” Act 1 Scene 1.

KING CHARLES:

The light is awful! Ha! who comes here? Are my eyes seeing double? What is this strange object in our bedroom? Camilla, do you see what I see? Are you for real? Speak, you apparition, trying to scare a new monarch!

EGUNGUN:

Ayam Egungun, the Ancestral Spirit of those your ancestors named Southwest Nigerians.

KING CHARLES:

Art thou some god, some angel, or some devil?

EGUNGUN:

Ayam Ará Ọ̀run. I come from the Other World, The Source.

KING CHARLES:

Why comest thou?

EGUNGUN:

To inform you that my people are not pleased with the deeds of your ancestors on our ancestral land.

KING CHARLES:

Well; I wasn’t born then. How did you get in here? There are hundreds of security guards watching this palace! How did you get through?

EGUNGUN:

I used a technology called Àfẹ́ẹ̀rí.

KING CHARLES:

What is Àfẹ́ẹ̀rí? Who taught you that technology?

EGUNGUN:

That is not important right now. I have some questions for you from my people.

KING CHARLES:

Speak to me what thou wishes.

(To be continued)

Picture shows me communicating with Ara Orun which i created with acrylic on canvas.