Nigeria: Sharia Court Bans Satirical Play

[Observer_1938]

Elizabeth Dickinson
Kaduna

Early in October, Shehu Sani started preparations for the opening of his third play, The Phantom Crescent. He wanted to perform it outside, in a park in Kaduna, where people could easily gather to watch.

The actors were hired and the invitations posted. Those invitations, however, caught the eye of clerics in this northern town of Nigeria. On October 3, a few days before the opening curtain, the Upper Sharia Court in Kaduna State issued an injunction, preventing anyone from "selling or in any way circulating" the manuscript.

 
Today, Sani is still waiting to perform his play. After three weeks and two trial days in Kaduna, the court ruled on October 22 that it did not have jurisdiction over the case. Yet the ban on the manuscript remains in place. The prosecution says it will ask the Sharia Court of Appeals to compel the court to render a verdict.

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[kiwi]

a scathing satire of Sharia Law.

Best review yet i would have to see it.

Kinda reminds me of Shakespeare his work was banned for long enough for the same reasons.

[Crusty]

Kinda reminds me of Shakespeare his work was banned for long enough for the same reasons.
[/quote]


Eh?  Not in my country, he wasn't! 

[kiwi]

Pretty much in New Zealand it was, banned out of schools because it was a political comments against the crown.

It wasn't until I was 16 that they allowed it back to be studied again, but only short courses in English Lit could have access to them.

Even Noddy and Big Ears too was banned, because she was meant to be a gay commie 

[Crusty]

Noddy and Big Ears were certainly NOT gay, just a little confused. Couldn't possibly have been Commies. Noddy had his own little yellow car, and it wasn't a Trabant or a Lada. Big Ears had a rather splendiferous house on the edge of Toytown, near Noddy's.

I think they were removed from primary schools and libraries due to political correctness reasons. Leaving aside the nasty Golliwogs that lurked in the Deep, Dark Woods, these were some examples.

"Good morning, Big Ears," said Noddy, as Big Ears came up the garden path. "OHH", Big Ears ejaculated. 

[kiwi]

I loved her books, famous five and such. And Noddy and Big Ears where bent as twigs LOL

[sniper]

Not like the story of the swingers  "the secret seven" 

[kiwi]

Not like the story of the swingers  "the secret seven" 

What you people are killing little bits of my soul you know.....................and that mean the Devil going to be pissed I sold it years ago

[Silver Bullet]

So did the Sharia courts set a date to stone the manuscript to death?
I agree with Kiwi thats the best review I have to see the play its probably a really good play. So good it would have distracted muslims from their prayers and beheading duties, no wonder the courts are worried.......:raz:

[sniper]

It's alright Kiwi, the devil works for me....whats ya reference number?

[kiwi]

My number is 555794691 Took a while, had a wait while my number was called, and the bugger was only up to number 10.

[sniper]

Ya get that on Mondays