3. SYNOPSIS OF THE PLAY

Ananse, an imposter and a wanderer is arrested for committing a sacrilegious act by defiling a ritual meal meant to appease spirits of evil destinies in the kingdom of Dim-nyim-lira. As the judgment of the gods delivered by Priestess of Kompi, the sentence for Ananse‟s inconsiderate action is his death as a sacrifice to appease the offended spirits. However, out of greed and corruption of the King, Elder, Akpala and Odudu in what Ananse offers in exchange of his life which alone could pacify the gods, Ananse is able to deceive the entire kingdom for his life by giving the elders trips of colourful cloths he had in his possession and drops of bee honey he pours into the palms of some of the citizens of the wealthy kingdom. With the promise of showing Akpala the secret of honey making and half of the wealth he will gain by marrying with the princess. Akpala kills Pootagyiri; the princess‟ groom, and assists Ananse to impersonate Pootagyire in order to marry Princess Sodziisa. While Ananse greatly succeeds with his trickery, he fails to give any share of his ill-gotten wealth to Akpala and even tricks the king to kill the poor greedy aide to Ananse.

As Ananse leaves Dim-nyim-lira for the Island of Boyile which had been reserved for Sodziisa and her husband, he lives a wrecked kingdom which does not have the capacity to pursue and overtake him because, he leaves with all the three boats the kingdom owned which were built within a decade. It is for no reason but a critical fact that Yaw Asare was right to call the Kingdom of Dim-nyim-lira as the Land of Idiots