| (1, 0) 7 | After two weeks in a forest, a hunter comes across a skull, he stepped on the skull, and it speaks, saying: |
| (1, 0) 9 | Shocked and bewildered, thinking he was hearing voices, thinking he was hallucinating, the hunter stepped on the skull again, for the second time the skull speaks, saying: |
| (1, 0) 11 | Not believing what he was hearing, the hunter stepped on the skull, for the third time, the skull speaks saying: |
| (1, 0) 13 | Without looking back, the hunter runs at extreme speed, he crosses the village park, he crosses the stream where women do their washing, he runs past the market, he runs past the village square and eventually to the king's palace. |
| (1, 0) 14 | ~ |
| (1, 0) 15 | He elbows the guards and eventually makes his way into the king's inner chamber. |
| (1, 0) 16 | He summoned the king and tells the king what he saw, what he heard, and what he had witnessed. |
| (1, 0) 17 | ~ |
| (1, 0) 18 | It is a taboo to tell lies in this society. |
| (1, 0) 19 | Freedom of expression is limited to the Text Committee, the body in charge of literature and all artistic forms, with the king at the helm. |
| (1, 0) 20 | The hunter was asked repeatedly, again he told the king and his entourage what he had heard, what th skull said. |
| (1, 0) 21 | He was asked repeatedly, and with no hesitation, he told the king what he had heard, that the skull had spoken. |
| (2, 0) 62 | Yes, we are implementing the most modern theory, the theory of shouting. |
| (2, 0) 63 | What is the theory of shouting? |
| (2, 0) 64 | You haven't heard about it? Hmm okay. Actually no one hears about it. |
| (2, 0) 65 | You see, gaining power means depriving others of it. |
| (2, 0) 66 | Shouting theory is Based on a Game, |
| (2, 0) 67 | But in this game, no one tells the other what the rules are. |
| (2, 0) 68 | The important thing is for you to find out what the rules are, and then for you to play game. |
| (2, 0) 69 | If you leave others in the Dark then you will win the game. |
| (2, 0) 70 | Sorry but this game you speak of, |
| (2, 0) 71 | How do we know the rules? |
| (2, 0) 72 | Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. |
| (2, 0) 73 | The rules? |
| (2, 0) 74 | The rules? |
| (2, 0) 75 | How to know the rules you ask? |
| (2, 0) 76 | Well let me tell you, to know the rules hmmmmmm, it is what you call The Intuition. |
| (2, 0) 77 | You see, When people find out the rules, they do not tell themselves what these rules are. |
| (2, 0) 78 | But who can have this intuition? |
| (2, 0) 79 | Ahaaaaa, now you are asking the right questions. |
| (2, 0) 80 | Come closer, let me whisper it in your ears. |
| (2, 0) 81 | "It is those who can shout." |
| (2, 0) 82 | And you my friend, you are not one of them. |
| (2, 0) 83 | You are not one of them, definitely not. |
| (2, 0) 84 | This is why, like a biblical eremite, I have come to you. What I am about to tell you is the Greatest Secret of our time. |
| (2, 0) 85 | Now, my friend, what does shouting mean? |
| (2, 0) 86 | Take this drum and go out onto the streets of Cardiff, play the drum and shout: |
| (2, 0) 87 | "I allow." |
| (2, 0) 88 | "I don't allow." |
| (2, 0) 89 | I allow." |
| (2, 0) 90 | "I don't allow." |
| (2, 0) 91 | You see in Nigeria, Boko Haram are shouting: |
| (2, 0) 92 | ''I allow, I don't allow.'' |
| (2, 0) 93 | Alshabab in Somalia are shouting: |
| (2, 0) 94 | ''I allow, I don't allow.'' |
| (2, 0) 95 | Isis are shouting: |
| (2, 0) 96 | ''I allow, I don't allow.'' |
| (2, 0) 97 | The elephants are shouting, |
| (2, 0) 98 | "I allow, I don't allow." |
| (2, 0) 99 | The grass is suffering. |
| (2, 0) 100 | Talking skulls appear here there and everywhere |
| (2, 0) 101 | Their mouths brought them here there and everywhere. |
| (3, 0) 102 | When we hear shouting, it means either that there is an imminent danger, or a wonderful or an important change is going to occur. |
| (3, 0) 103 | Just think when you or other people shout. |
| (3, 0) 104 | Shouting means a dramatic change is taking place. |
| (3, 0) 105 | ~ |
| (3, 0) 106 | A child cries as soon as it arrives to the world. |
| (3, 0) 107 | ~ |
| (3, 0) 108 | You shout when you are excited. |
| (3, 0) 109 | ~ |
| (3, 0) 110 | When you are shocked, or angry, and attacked. |
| (3, 0) 111 | ~ |
| (3, 0) 112 | When an important person is carried in a convoy, sirens go wild. |
| (3, 0) 113 | Sometimes bodyguards extend their heads from car windows to shout as extra noise amplifiers. |
| (3, 0) 114 | ~ |
| (3, 0) 115 | Their gestures are supposed to tell you to give way, but the real message is to tell you: |
| (3, 0) 116 | "Hey you, insignificant person; It is the time you realised that you are insignificant." |
| (3, 0) 117 | A child communicates through its cry, doesn't it? |
| (3, 0) 118 | For a child, the only important thing is himself/herself. |
| (3, 0) 119 | The child is only aware of him or herself. |
| (3, 0) 120 | ~ |
| (3, 0) 121 | But my friend, listen to me when I talk, for I shall only pass this way but once, listen carefully, most children and most people are slowly told it is not only you who are important, they are told to stop shouting. |
| (3, 0) 122 | ~ |
| (3, 0) 123 | Everyone tells them: |
| (3, 0) 124 | ~ |
| (3, 0) 125 | "I am important too." |
| (3, 0) 126 | ~ |
| (3, 0) 127 | Some fathers raise their sons/daughters only in order to have a helpless person under their control, to whom they say how important they are. |
| (3, 0) 128 | ~ |
| (3, 0) 129 | In these ways people inhibit and frustrate each other. |
| (3, 0) 130 | But there are fathers who dream that they will be able to push their sons and daughters to powerful positions. |
| (3, 0) 131 | ~ |
| (3, 0) 132 | But these stupid fathers first suppress these sons and daughters from shouting, they cut off their tongues upon birth, because they fear when their children start shouting, they too might become insignificant in the eyes of their children. |
| (3, 0) 133 | Though they accept being insignificant in regard to significant people outside. |
| (3, 0) 134 | These fathers then send their children to best schools of politics, psychology, and economics hoping that they will learn. |
| (3, 0) 135 | And they learn actually, and come back to realise their fathers' dreams in becoming the rulers. |
| (3, 0) 136 | But as soon as they catch the attention of the king, he cuts their throats. |
| (3, 0) 137 | These fathers in doing so actually send their children to the butchers'. |
| (3, 0) 138 | Instead, they should prepare instead a room for them so that they would shriek. |
| (3, 0) 139 | Yet not all people are so suppressed some whenever find a place where there is no one to tell them shut your ugly mouth, they begin training in shouting. |
| (3, 0) 140 | "In fact, all what we do for you is that we tell this important secret and prepare a ground for you there you can shout as much as you want. |
| (3, 0) 141 | ~ |
| (3, 0) 142 | If you go to that square and begin shouting "I allow and I don't allow", some people will say, let's stop and see. |
| (3, 0) 143 | They will say there is some rules on the making we should know before we break them and get into trouble. |
| (3, 0) 144 | Others will be very grateful to you if you just tell them what the rules are so that they follow. |
| (3, 0) 145 | Because such people are made to feel that they are breaking numerous rules without knowing what these rules are. |
| (3, 0) 146 | That is why they live in anxiety that someone will eventually turn up and hold them from their collars to tell them that enough is enough and the day of reckoning is here. |
| (3, 0) 147 | These people because of this uncertainty come to you immediately because they say to themselves: |
| (3, 0) 148 | ~ |
| (3, 0) 149 | "Ahhhhhhhhh, this man means what he says. He says what he allows and what he doesn't allow. |
| (3, 0) 150 | ~ |
| (3, 0) 151 | And this is very good because we will know that no one will slap the back of our neck. |
| (3, 0) 152 | They will say, |
| (3, 0) 153 | ~ |
| (3, 0) 154 | "This man in comparison is a saint because we have lived all these years in the hell of uncertainty." |
| (3, 0) 155 | ~ |
| (3, 0) 156 | Regarding other people, we need only to be concerned with those who may dare to stand in your way and these people should be Crushed, simply. |
| (3, 0) 157 | ~ |
| (3, 0) 158 | Shouting is a capital and it will give dividend. |
| (3, 0) 159 | We send some of the people who are attracted by the yelling against those few who are put off by yelling. |
| (3, 0) 160 | We have followers to spare and the two sides cancel each other out. |
| (3, 0) 161 | The net result as you can expect is great profit. |
| (3, 0) 162 | So it's only an administrative and shovelling matter. |
| (3, 0) 163 | But the only thing is that we let them to believe that the matter is rules not shouting. Shouting is the thing which should be kept Secret. |
| (3, 0) 164 | No one should know that the matter is shouting. |
| (3, 0) 165 | This is the trick. |
| (4, 0) 166 | Hahahahahahahahaha, so you are telling me, you were in the forest, you came across a skull, you stepped on the skull and it spoke to you is that correct? |
| (4, 0) 167 | Let me remind you, it is a taboo to tell lies in this society. |
| (4, 0) 168 | The consequences of telling lies is decapitation. |
| (4, 0) 169 | For the last time and consider this your final warning. |
| (4, 0) 170 | Are you telling me you saw a talking skull? |
| (4, 0) 171 | Is that correct? |
| (4, 0) 172 | Eventually the king summoned a few of his best soldiers and hunters with sharpened machetes, bow and arrows, and together, they followed the hunter into the forest. |
| (4, 0) 173 | Lo and behold, the skull was there. |
| (4, 0) 174 | The hunter stepped on the skull, nothing happened, there was nothing but pure silence, he stepped on the skull again, silence, he stepped on the skull repeatedly, nothing happened. After many attempts the king got more and more agitated. |
| (4, 0) 175 | After many more attempts, the Hunter was beheaded his skull placed alongside the previous skull. |
| (4, 0) 176 | When all was quiet and the King had returned to his abode, the first skull looked at the new skull and said: |
| (5, 0) 184 | My mother warned me |
| (5, 0) 185 | my father, he warned me |
| (5, 0) 186 | They said: |
| (5, 0) 187 | ~ |
| (5, 0) 188 | When you reach on top of the hill |
| (5, 0) 189 | do not sigh, do not show any signs of tiredness |
| (5, 0) 190 | on top of the hill, |
| (5, 0) 191 | I sighed, |
| (5, 0) 192 | I took deep breath, |
| (5, 0) 193 | I was tired |
| (5, 0) 194 | That was when I saw 'Jukuke', |
| (5, 0) 195 | the Devil and his friend Mevomba, |
| (5, 0) 196 | Who took me away. |
| (5, 0) 197 | ~ |
| (5, 0) 198 | I was tired |
| (5, 0) 199 | weak, |
| (5, 0) 200 | I was a boy, |
| (5, 0) 201 | my bones soft. |
| (5, 0) 202 | ~ |
| (5, 0) 203 | The judge banged his gavel |
| (5, 0) 204 | he shouted |
| (5, 0) 205 | 'Makama' |
| (5, 0) 206 | 'Makama' |
| (5, 0) 207 | Exile |
| (5, 0) 208 | Exile. |
| (5, 0) 209 | ~ |
| (5, 0) 210 | Do you mean exile as in the case of the Molikilikili |
| (5, 0) 211 | the stick insect |
| (5, 0) 212 | who died and resurrected herself from death |
| (5, 0) 213 | to question the grave diggers, the mourners |
| (5, 0) 214 | why she wasn't washed |
| (5, 0) 215 | why she was buried in dirty clothes |
| (5, 0) 216 | ~ |
| (5, 0) 217 | Do you mean exile |
| (5, 0) 218 | as in the case of Mowbray? |
| (5, 0) 219 | ~ |
| (5, 0) 220 | or do you mean exile as in beyond the village gates |
| (5, 0) 221 | to cross seas, |
| (5, 0) 222 | to climb mountains |
| (5, 0) 223 | seeking peace and finding none. |
| (5, 0) 224 | ~ |
| (5, 0) 225 | in my flight |
| (5, 0) 226 | I saw my grandmother |
| (5, 0) 227 | she was rearranging the flowers around my grave |
| (5, 0) 228 | she rewrote the words on my epitaph |
| (5, 0) 229 | 'Ngalle was here' |
| (5, 0) 230 | 'Ngalle is no more' |
| (5, 0) 231 | ~ |
| (5, 0) 232 | in my flight, I saw young boys |
| (5, 0) 233 | I saw young girls |
| (5, 0) 234 | dancing barefoot in the "rains of my dreams |
| (5, 0) 235 | And my broken landscape" |
| (5, 0) 236 | I saw bees pregnant with nectar |
| (5, 0) 237 | they carried me home |
| (5, 0) 238 | away from exile. |