Sometime ago, when I was writing the first Review about The GURU GUANO screenplay, I remember I chewed my gum with a leaking nose, but I realized that to be a writer is just about how well you reveal secrets that people may desperately want to know about. Then I had to write again about the characters I assigned to the GURUS. What about my major character, ZAFANA?
Yes, she is a young girl but practically possessed by the mental strength of the GURUS. I’m sure you have consulted your dictionary once, at least about the word GURU. ZAFANA has that intelligence, and a raging ego that distinguished her from the gatherings of other young ladies of twenty six.
Slim, tall Fulani extract with a strong touch of Igbo tribal affluence. Such cultural unity that made a unique lady is the base of my GURU GUANO screenplay.
At the boundary area between Enugu state and Kogi state in Nigeria, where two culture and religions lavish in Unity. Languages were interchanged as children of different cultural/religious backgrounds swim together in the streams that gave the demarcations. If a place like that were not created with a little fragrance of unity. These present religious war in Africa would have resulted ninety years ago in a place like the Valley of OKUTU, Where the GURU GUANOS settled. ZAFANA rose from amongst these children too. Regarded as slaves of war, even with super crafts and intelligence, they remained as subordinates of the freeborn. Using cultural references of the Osu caste systems in Eastern Nigeria and the Mande of Cameroon.
Hey…who’s at my kitchen door? Let me check.
