Children of Mud

Hi.

Emem, is that you?

Who else?

I knew it was you.

I was wondering why you didn't come back since.

I was counting time for you to come back, oh.

Usually when sun comes to the left side of this place,

that's when you come back home.

Go back, I want to change.

I can't see anything.

What if your eye miraculously opens?

Is the first thing you want to see your sister's nakedness?

See, you'll be cursed forever

and wander the earth for eternity.

So I won't see you again?

Yes.

Ah, okay, oh.

Have you had your bath?

Am I smelling?

Why are you asking me?

To make sure you're clean.

When I have my own house, Em,

I want to bath every day.

You're stupid.

So I heard noises when Mr. Enigbe came back.

He was flirting with Manse's granddaughter.

How do you know it was her?

'Cause she was laughing like this, he he he he he he.

In this life,

it is better to mind your own business.

Well I have to sit on the veranda all day doing nothing.

You're lucky to get to go to school.

I want to go to school too.

Agbo lives in the town of Lagoon

which is not far from Ibadan.

He went to primary school.

He was in primary four.

Everyone liked Agbo

because he was always happy and friendly.

Agbo was a lucky boy because his parents were rich.

His father gave him a watch and Agbo was very proud of it.

One day Agbo woke up very late.

He looked at the watch and it was 7:30 a.m.

Mph.

Emem, you're sleeping!

You have finished eating my food,

and you came here to sleep.

Huh, oh so we don't have a farm, eh?

We don't have a farm that you can go?

After a hard day's work, I will still go to the farm

so we're picking grass.

Do you want to kill me?

You want to kill me like you killed

your mother and your father?

What is wrong with you?

What is wrong with you?

What is wrong with you children?

I don't know why you're crying, that's more flogging.

I want to go home.

Is Auntie really Mama's sister?

She is.

Why does she hate us so much?

What did Mama do to her when they were small?

Maybe she doesn't hate us.

Maybe she just wants us to work hard.

If you love somebody, why do you have to hurt them?

That's how humans behave.

Ladies and gentlemen,

it is now time for the Funny Man.

Okay, Hulk Hogan is lifting the other man.

There is reduce tied to his arms.

Is that the Ultimate Warrior?

Yes, he slams him on the floor

but the Ultimate Warrior quickly gets up.

He's charging, he's charging.

What do you mean, he's charging?

Well he's shaking the rope violently like a crazed person.

He's angry.

He swings Hulk Hogan against the rope and clothesline.

What do you mean clothesline?

When he basically opens his arm

and the other runs into it.

That's silly.

That's wrestling.

When is Frances starts our program?

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

Let's watch this.

Another wrestling fights?

No, there's a healer, he heals people.

Is it real or drama?

Shh!

You know many times,

people look to the wrong places for miracles.

We always have aspirations,

we always have dreams and hopes,

but today is that one day that your miracle

is served to you at your doorstep.

Now here we are expecting a huge miracle,

expecting a huge turnaround in our lives.

Now do not forget that miracles follow you everywhere you go

and today is your day of miracle.

Now if you believe that your miracle is today,

I'd like for you to stretch forth your arm like this,

towards your TV set and say after me, "I am healed."

I am healed.

I didn't hear you.

I am healed.

Beautiful, you are healed today, hallelujah!

Thank you very much.

Can you see now?

No, maybe we should coming again tomorrow.

Are you sure you cannot see?

No, still blind.

Ah.

So since you left, eh,

you people are just now coming back.

Welcome, okay, so since you didn't see

when the sun was setting, eh?

You didn't see it?

Where did you go?

We came straight home.

No, you didn't come straight home.

Miracle, where did you go?

Auntie El,

we stopped by to watch wrestling.

Ah.

I said it, did I say it?

Didn't I say it?

I know you didn't come straight home.

I said it.

So you people went to be watching wrestling, eh?

Emem, you went to watch wrestling.

Oh, so now you are a big girl.

You are be misbehaving in this house.

I'm going to kill, in fact you already dead.

You already dead.

So now you're a big girl, you have breasts like me.

Do you want my bra?

You want it?

Eh, so you want to be watching wrestling?

Is okay.

Okay, I will show you.

Blind Bartimaeus, take this grass.

Go and feed the goats.

Emem, go inside, I'm coming.

Go and wait for me.

Go and wait for me.

Kneel down oh, just kneel down.

Auntie, no.

Auntie, no.

Take this.

Auntie El.

Auntie El.

Emem, Emem?

Leave me alone.

I'm sorry, I don't just like to lie.

I didn't want to say anything.

I don't know what made me say it.

Please, forgive me.