Lament for Rastafari and Other Plays

This volume comprises the plays Lament for Rastafari, Like Them that Dream (Children of Ogun), and Trinity - The Long and Cheerful Road to Slavery.

Lament for Rastafari portrays an historical panorama of the trials of Rastafarian life and was originally staged in London in 1977. Set in Jamaica, England and the USA (New York) the play begins with the inhumanity of slavery and moves to the mid-twentieth century following the Rastafarian experience through poverty and hardship, discrimination and prostitution.

Like Them that Dream was first staged in New York in 1983 and presents a young South African living in exile in New York who, coming face to face with an old enemy, realizes he must choose between revenge or mercy.

Trinity is a trio of three one-act plays dealing with relationships. A Nigerian and West Indian in a London jail trying to bridge the 400 year old gulf of culture and historical separation; the confrontation between an African military zealot and the ex minister of the corrupt ousted African government; and the marital tangles between a wealthy West Indian who has chosen a life of poverty in Britian and his elitist wife who fails to understand his voluntary exile from their narrow society at home.