For the author of I will not marry whom I love, Garba Ahmed Idris, it is expedient to interrogate values and societal norms that couples face in their marital adventure.
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Divided into five scenes, Idris said, “it is a play to which I gave so much attention. It reflects some of the challenges, which lovers who are coming to terms with each other in a strange land usually face from their respective parents. How their experiences often evoke sentiments from the society at large is what this play is most particular about.”

To him, the play is a romantic play about a young costly-looking university belle and maiden who spurns the man whom her parents have chosen for her for the young man she meets at the university.

In his introduction, Associate Professor of English Linguistics, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo, Ebonyi State, Joseph Babasola Osoba, said the play is an interesting moral and romantic modern African play.
“It is a play that captures the essence of youthful love guided by Islamic principles. The youthful couple seems to be attracted to each other as soon as they meet, a situation of love at first sight or infatuation.”

Speaking further, he added the play’s emotional language serves the theme of unconditional and unconquerable resilient love of the couple as strong character personas.

He noted, “it appears to portray the playwright himself as having understanding of the delicate balance between parental marital influence and perception and the relationship of true and spontaneous courtship and love. I warmly recommend this play to all lovers of good African drama.”

Making his debut as a playwright, Idris wrote the play when he was a 200 level student, but not published until after his graduation.

Published by Noble 11A Ventures, Idris is a graduate of English Language from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Kaduna State.  He also holds Master of Arts in English Language from University of Lagos.
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