Cast in the Same Mould - Ògúnlànà, O̩lábò̩dé
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Cast in the Same Mould
Ògúnlànà, O̩lábò̩dé
Synopsis "Cast in the Same Mould"
Nigerian businessman Kó̩ lé has a mysterious past. Born out of wedlock, young Comfort is considered a child with a gloomy future. Kó̩ lé initially resists the much younger Comfort's charms, but when he discovers they are soulmates, he moulds her into a made to measure spouse. Kó̩ lé educated Comfort. Her mother, Àlérò, whose indiscretion led to Comfort's conception, forced into a polygamous marriage, is aided by Kó̩ lé when her husband dies. Upon Comfort's graduation from high school, Kó̩ lé unites Comfort with the newly found father. Àlérò forgives herself and Akin, the man who seduced her years ago. Àlérò and Akin marry, and Àlérò cast aside the slavery chains of paramour. When younger, Kó̩ lé was engaged to Tọ́lání. The night before their wedding, he discovered her affair with another man. He retreated into the woods to stay with the Sage, a wise old mystic. Following her education in Bristol, Comfort and Kó̩ lé marry. During her studies, Comfort leant the history of the slave trade. She heard the story of a wealthy Bristolian white woman, Dolores, daughter of a slave trader. She, disgusted by the trade, successfully begged her father to stop. Father and son died in a storm on their return from the Caribbean while accompanying slaves survived. Dolores liberated the slaves and engaged Borípẹ́ ̩ ́, to teach them English. Dolores and Borípẹ́ ̩ ́ fell in love. As no church in Bristol would marry them, they travelled to Antigua and Barbuda to get married. Comfort sees parallels between the slave trade of old and modern political and economic slavery. She enjoins the people to abandon white-collar jobs learn trades and be self-employed. Accordingly, she and Kó̩ lé, assisted by the Sage, start a trade school. The Sage highlights the excesses of current politicians, and exhorts, "all forms of slavery must be eradicated". Reformers with the mindset of Comfort and Dolores, Cast in the same mould, should from now on make the world slavery free.
