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Fishing in Troubled Waters (Second Edition — Dramatist’s Sovereign Cut) by K. K. Bonteh

In the village of Embaigi, where River Aganas carves both land and loyalties, the Embaigi Area Development Authority (EADA) convenes under the shadow of Fon Wong’s carved throne. What begins as ritual—Mbe! bugle, Njang—swiftly fractures into accusation: funds vanish, votes are bought, and the executive feasts while the floor starves.

Mboysi, voice of the silenced, demands new wine in new skins. Pa Nyeke, the “frutambo-boy,” seizes the Fon’s calabash in a drunken duel, only to face the bitter truth: wine fills no empty stomach. As the elite retreat behind invitation-only doors, the people are left with a single drop on scattered kola.

In the final reckoning, power shifts on a knife’s edge and a cracked calabash. A conditional truce is struck—audit, probation, shared crown—but the chorus splits, the drum falters, and the last laugh echoes from the dining hall.

Fishing in Troubled Waters is a 90-minute satire of power, protocol, and the perilous space between sunshine and endless rain.