The Institute of Episteresurrecist Arts (IEA), in collaboration with the Community and Culture Desk of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), will host the official launch of The Great Delusion on Tuesday, November 4, 2025.
The event will be held from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at HOMEF’s Ikike Gardens, No. 30, 19th Street, off Ugbowo-Lagos Road, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. Links for virtual participation will be shared soon.
The Great Delusion, a new play by Majekodunmi O. Ebhohon, has been shortlisted for the 2025 Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Prize for Drama. The work examines cultural displacement, reclamation, and the resurrection of African epistemologies within the context of precolonial identity and postcolonial resistance.
The keynote address will be delivered by Prof. G. G. Darah, a leading scholar of African literature, folklore, and cultural sciences. The event will be chaired by Dr. Nnimmo Bassey, renowned environmental advocate and prolific author. Special guests include Dr. Vibert Issa White, Professor of History at the University of Central Florida, USA, and author of the foreword to The Great Delusion; Queen Nina Womack, American actress and filmmaker; Amb. Donna Morton Morgan, President of the Caribbean American Diaspora Alliance (CADA); and Mr. Jahman Anikulapo, veteran journalist and culture advocate.
Themed “The Stolen Are Back — A Celebration of Return, Reclamation & Renaissance,” the launch will feature readings, discussions, and critical reflections on the play’s engagement with African cultural resurgence and epistemic renewal.
ABOUT THE PLAY.
The Great Delusion by Majekodunmi Oseriemen Ebhohon is an epic theatrical tragedy and socio-political satire exploring the catastrophic consequences of historical erasure, anti-Black racism, and epistemic theft.
The play opens with JULIAN, a young White girl, listening to her GRANNY recount how the world collapsed when Black genius and labour withdrew from exploitative global systems. At the centre is DEEP, a white supremacist patriarch, his wife MARGARET, and their disabled son JACK, whose friendship with KWAME, a Black boy, destabilizes Deep’s racist worldview and the agenda of his faction, The Blind Majority.
In response to centuries of dehumanization, the Black community stages an Afrocession—a mass exodus and return to Africa—taking with them their intellect, labour, and ancestral knowledge.
This withdrawal triggers a global collapse: infrastructure fails, hospitals crumble, and economies disintegrate, while ancestral figures such as Katherine Johnson, Daniel Hale Williams, George Stinney, and the unnamed Black builders of the White House and Capitol return as haunting presences demanding justice.
The Great Delusion compels the world to confront its dependence on the very people it had devalued, offering a profound meditation on memory, justice, and the cost of erasure.
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IEA, HOMEF To Launch The Great Delusion
