JULIUS AND KWAME

Campus. Julius met kwame in front of institute of African studies.

JULIUS: [excited] what a surprise! What a coincidence! Even before your death, you have become a ghost wandering in a labyrinthine campus with a freedom you have not chosen.

Kwame [mockingly] A crude comparison Julius, but posses the revolutionary charisma you know. How are you doing?

JULIUS I am still around and doing wonderful and still searching for my good friend who is now invisible which I guess will make my search the more demanding.

KWAME [with good humor] the campus genie has emerged from his bottle. Now what is your wish, tell me. [Making a puerile gesture] tell me

JULIUS: I would rather soar around the red roof tiles.

KWAME: [laughing] you have your wish. From now onwards, I would not begrudge you concerning issues of legon. Because you and your friends eat legon, drink legon and sleep legon. Quite interesting. By the way, I learnt you are making a feverish preparation for the forth-coming speech delivery day at commonwealth hall.


JULIUS: you are right. This time around, we want to redefine it. We want to experiment and batter on pressing issues. We are not going to ornament our words in a mild legon manner to beautify the program; rather we are in to cause a stir. I tried last week to see you to help with the organization.

KWAME; [walking slowly with Julius towards the main entrance] you I take delight in things that concern campus. When you are in legon, you either indulge something beneficial or detrimental. I know most students will deem such a step highly idealist in nature unconnected with reality. I do not care being called or deemed an idealist, a wretched dreamer whose sole delight is taking refuge in a subjective world, because he cannot face reality.

JULIUS: The problems are manifold and insurmountable. If you want to solve them without tackling from the root, it is a mere talk, a fallacy. {they reached school of performing arts] take school of performing arts for instance,[he became emotional] it has to do with arts, and we know how barren, stale and worthless our lives would be without it. Most of us have an erroneous perception about arts, which in depth reflect the age long traditions and cultural values of a society.


What can of future awaits a country, which sees its own traditions and norms as fetish, obsolete and a taboo. When you study local languages at the university, you are jeered at, considered inferior. Therefore, the very thing that you will exhort people to take into serious consideration is the very thing they are ready to abandon.

KWAME: The intellectual who remains in the midst of injustice dies!

JULIUS: Then one must be a howling voice in a storm that cannot be consoled.