Full Description
This anthology consists of nine plays by a diverse group of women from throughout the African continent. The plays focus on a wide range of issues, such as cultural differences, AIDS, female circumcision, women's rights to higher education, racial and skin color identity, prostitution as a form of survival for young girls, and nonconformist women resisting old traditions. In addition to the plays themselves, this collection includes commentaries by the playwrights on their own plays, and editor Kathy A. Perkins provides additional commentary and a bibliography of published and unpublished plays by African women.
The playwrights featured are Ama Ata Aidoo, Violet R. Barungi, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nathalie Etoke, Dania Gurira, Andiah Kisia, Sindiwe Magona, Malika Ndlovu (Lueen Conning), Juliana Okoh, and Nikkole Salter.
Contents
ix FOREWORD Amandina Lihamba
[Dar es Salaam, Tanzania]
xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1 INTRODUCTION Kathy A. Perkins
12 THE DILEMMA OF A GHOST Ama Ata Aidoo
[Ghana]
62 OVER MY DEAD BODY Violet Barungi
[Uganda]
100 SHE NO LONGER WEEPS Tsitsi Dangarembga
[Zimbabwe]
140 BETTER DAYS COME IN BITTER WAYS Nathalie Etoke
[Cameroon]
150 HOMECOMING Andiah Kisia (Chika Okigbo)
[Kenya]
170 VUKANI! (WAKE UP!) Sindiwe Magona
[South Africa]
222 A COLOURED PLACE Malika Ndlovu (Lueen Conning)
[South Africa]
248 EDEWEDE (THE DAWN OF A NEW DAY) Julie Okoh
[Nigeria]
318 IN THE CONTINUUM Dania Gurira and Nikkole Salter
[Zimbabwe and the United States]
363 SELECTED READINGS AND PLAYS
367 CONTRIBUTORS
