10 ACT FOUR: Scene 2

Events are beginning to unfold and life getting more difficult for Akanji. Early one morning as he is set to go out, Risi calls him and complains of food shortage in the house.

Risi: Baba Oloye, there is no food at home again. Please bring some along when you are returning from farm.

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Akanji: I have heard you.

[He leaves the house, and instead of going to the supposed farm, he heads for the palm-wine joint. Later in the afternoon as he returns home, Risi confronts him and asks for the foodstuff.]

Risi: Welcome Baba Oloye. What about the foodstuff I told you to bring along with you?

Akanji: What foodstuff? I don't know about any foodstuff.

Risi: What do you mean by that? I told you to…[as she continues, Akanji cuts in]

Akanji: [shouting] Please, leave me alone, I don't have time for that now.

Risi: What do you mean you don't have time for that now, do you want me to be starving?

[as she continues to shout, Akanji decides to leave the house again, then Risi holds tight to his cloth]

Akanji: You better leave my cloth now before I batter your face for you.

Risi: Beat me. You will have to beat me today. How can you leave me at home without anything to eat. [Then suddenly] Yee! [she shouts] o pami o [her noise attract the attention of Iya-Agba who rushes in to see what is happening. As she enters, she sees both of them fighting. She tries her best to separate them and as Akanji gets a chance, he frees himself and leaves the house. He yells some threatening words and then heads for Karimu's house. The old woman is left with the lady trying to calm her as she leads her out to her place.]

Iya Agba: What happened between the two of you?

Risi: [sobbing] There is no more food at home, and I told him this morning when he was

going to his farm to bring some along. But now he came back and told me to be starving.

Iya-Agba: Which farm was he talking about? He has no farm. Every morning, he goes

out to drink palm-wine. He returns in the afternoon and goes back there again in the evening.

Risi: [surprised] Is that so? So, all my father said about him is true. I am in trouble. Now I cannot go back to my father's house again, what kind of situation have I put myself into? [she starts sobbing profusely, with her hands on her head, regretting her action. The old woman manages to clam her down and also gives her something to prepare to eat. Iya Agba took time to narrate to Risi how Akanji came back from the city wretched after spending all the money he earned from his inheritance]