Tarila Nikade Set for Release of New Play ‘A City Submerged’ Soon
‎The African Culture Club Writers’ Series, Woji, Port Harcourt (ACCW’SWPH MEDIA), is pleased to announce the upcoming release of “A City Submerged”, a play by Dr Ebidenyefa Tarila Nikade, scheduled for release shortly.
‎”A City Submerged” is a climate-change flood tale that chronicles the lives of people displaced into an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp after rising waters swallow the riverine community of Oporoba. Through the voices of Mama Priya, University-Owei, Benji, and Perezie, the play exposes how environmental disasters evolve into profound political and moral crises, laying bare the state of neglect, bureaucratic cruelty, and the collective survival of the people.
‎Set against the backdrop of recurring devastating floods, the play follows families who have lost their homes, loved ones, and livelihoods, yet are expected to adjust solemnly to their new realities without question, without redress, and without accountability. Within the camp, hunger lives side by side with fear, memory, and the anxious hope for the waters to recede. Survival becomes both a burden and an act of resistance.
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‎”A City Submerged” interrogates displacement as a natural consequence of climate change as well as a human tragedy worsened by indifference, political inertia, and silence. It is a testimony of endurance, a lament for abandoned citizens, and a call to confront the cost of ignoring those affected by such natural disasters and their attendant issues.
