
Osuofia and Samantha On the way home.. |
Take a cocky, motor-mouthed African villager ‘Osuofia’ (Nkem
Owoh) straight out of his life-long habitat and drop him into a
million-pound stately home somewhere in England, part of a
multi-million pound estate he has suddenly and unexpectedly inherited
from his ‘long lost’ brother ‘Donatus’, recently deceased.
Shake gently.
Then add in a young, attractive English
‘Lady of the House’, ‘Samantha’ (Mara Derwent) who was the
fiancee of the late Donatus, but who, much to her disbelief, has
inadvertently been left out of Donatus’ will, and is about to lose
everything.
Stir.
Sprinkle in a dubious
English lawyer ‘Ben O’kafor’ (Charles Angiama) who, with the
connivance of ‘Samantha’, conspires to trick ‘Osuofia’ out of his
rightful inheritance, and at the very last minute, makes an audacious
attempt to double-cross Samantha herself.
Stir again.
Finally, raise the temperature a notch by jetting Samantha and
Osuofia back out to tropical Africa, where they arrive to village pomp
and pageantry, arm-in-arm as if man and wife-to-be.
It is
Samantha’s last-ditch attempt to win Osuofia over and get him to part
with a chunk of the fortune she believes to be truly hers.
But Osuofia already has a ‘friendly’ wife and five grown-up daughters
of his own….
Shake vigorously, then serve.
‘Osuofia In London’ takes a non-PC, tongue-in-cheek look at the
conflicts that occur when the unadulterated African culture comes
West. Likewise when middle-class West goes walkies in remote Africa.
Osuofia–In–London Part 2
‘Osuofia’ (Nkem Owoh) returns from London to his village
with ‘Samantha’ (Mara Derwent), the pretty Englishwoman in tow. They
arrive to village pomp and pageantry, arm-in-arm as if man and
wife-to-be. Samantha has been disinherited from a vast fortune
in the UK left by her late fiancé, the deceased brother of the sole
beneficiary, Osuofia.
A plan to trick Osuofia out of the money
back in London failed disastrously, and she has now cooked up another
scheme in a last-ditch attempt to win Osuofia over and get him to part
with a chunk of the fortune she believes to be truly hers.
But
Osuofia already has a ‘friendly’ wife and five grown-up daughters of
his own….
‘Osuofia In London’ takes a non-PC, tongue-in-cheek
look at the conflicts that occur when the unadulterated African
culture comes West. Likewise when middle-class West goes walkies in
remote Africa.