The Fobang Foundation

Sacrilege In Noorem - A play on the Maturing of the AIDS Epidemic in a Cameroon Community.
Sacrilige in Noorem is a one act, five- scene drama involving three families. In an interplay of naivete, ignorance, carelessness, cultural misperceptions, societal pressures, and traditional African beliefs, wives, husbands and friends drive each other to extremes endangering the community through ill-advised sexual practices. Condom use is still regarded as a taboo in certain African circles. No death is of natural cause in the traditional Africa which leads to the accusation of a family relative of witchcraft practices that resulted in numerous deaths occurring within the Edots, a middle class urban family.

Through a series of rich African choreographed performances, the sorrowful atmosphere of deaths are lightened by the rather exorbitant but graceful African funerals. The play is fairly tight in action and is presented in a simple and straight forward language, intended to reach the lay population with information on the understanding of the disease, on how to prevent transmission of AIDS and other STDs and mechanisms of public health intervention remotely concerned with the issues at hand. Hopefully it will be subtitled into other African languages.