“Echoes from Obanliku: Footprints on the Mountain Path” Set against the majestic highlands of Obanliku, Echoes from Obanliku: Footprints on the Mountain Path is a deeply evocative play that weaves together history, memory, and cultural identity. The story follows Ayina, a gifted young woman torn between her ancestral roots and the seductive promises of the modern world. When a controversial development threatens to desecrate the sacred ancestral shrine, the soul of the land awakens through songs, dirges, and spirit voices to confront the community's forgotten past. Haunted by visions and guided by Mma Yefon, an ageless matriarch from the spirit realm, Ayina embarks on a symbolic journey that bridges generations. Alongside Dede, a returning diaspora researcher, and Bebi, a local youth clinging to tradition, Ayina must navigate the tensions between progress and preservation, religion and ritual, memory and silence. As the mountain paths echo with songs of the ancestors and the voices of displaced spirits, the community is forced to reckon with questions of identity, migration, spiritual erasure, and political betrayal. The climax unfolds in a tragic ritual gone wrong, leading to a shattering sacrifice that leaves the land and its people forever altered. A poignant fusion of English and Bendi oral traditions, traditional music, and ancestral poetry, this 90-minute play challenges audiences to reflect on the costs of forgetting and the power of cultural return.