The Rainmaker and the Blacksmith

The rainmaker and blacksmith are actors of sorts, and Warru is a theatre that finds both the rainmaker and blacksmith performing their art of rainmaking and blacksmithing. The village's theatre depicts more the unseemly characters of the two artisans than a real theatre would. The palm wine tapper, only a minor actor in the drama, stands by watching the play of manners and action between the rainmaker and blacksmith building to a tragedy, now and then stepping in to provide comic relief; ultimately rescuing the village from a tragedy neither the rainmaker nor blacksmith could.

Born 24th Sept. 1965, Kyuka Lilymjok hails from Bafai-Kanai. He is a professor of law and lectures at the Faculty of Law at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Other published novels by the author include Farewell to Peace, Bivan's House, Sieged, The Deportee, The Disappointed Three, and Don't Forget to tell the Masquerade.