Download or read book Stills from the Feature Film Wazobia by Osonye Tess Onwueme based on the Play The Reign of Wazobia 2000 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book No Vacancy a Play written by Osonye Tess Onwueme and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book What Mama Said written by Osonye Tess Onwueme and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned playwright Osonye Tess Onwueme's powerful new drama illuminates the effect of national and global oil politics on the lives of impoverished rural Nigerians. What Mama Said is set in the metaphorical state of Sufferland, whose people are starving and routinely exploited and terrorized by corrupt government officials and multinational oil companies-that is, until a voice erupts and moves the wounded women and youths to rise up and demand justice. Onwueme's powerful characters and vibrant, emotionally charged scenes bring to life a turbulent movement for change and challenge to tradition. Aggrieved youths and militant women-whose husbands and sons work in the refineries or have been slaughtered in the violent struggle-take center stage to "drum" their pain in this drama about revolution. Determined to finally confront the multinational forces that have long humiliated them, Sufferland villagers burn down pipelines and kidnap an oil company director. Tensions peak, and activist leaders are put on trial before a global jury that can no longer ignore the situation. What Mama Said is a moving portrayal of the battle for human rights, dignity, compensation, and the right of a nation's people to control the resources of their own land.

Download or read book The Missing Face written by Tess Onwueme and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African American Ida Bee journeys from Milwaukee with her teenage son to the mythical African kingdom of Idu in search of her son's runaway father, and the broken ancestral ikenga staff that her own father had bequeathed to her with the mandate to 'find the missing half of the face.' Their arrival in Idu unravels startling memories that would forever change the course of history and education of the African world with the Diaspora.

Download or read book Then She Said it written by Osonye Tess Onwueme and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The play is set in the metaphoric state of Hungaria. Nagging questions and concerns fuel the struggles of rising militant and radicalised women and youths in a dramatised revolutionary struggle for change and challenge to tradition. The relegated women take centre-stage to air their grievances and project their cause to the international community in an effort to destabilise the multinational forces and class interests which have oppressed them for so long. They ask, how long can a people whose land produces the richest oil and gas resources, which control local, national and foreign interests, continue to exist in silence, abject poverty and hunger, and sugger acute fuel, water and electricity shortages? The author has won the Association of Nigerian Authors' Drama Prize three times for Shakara: Dance-Hall Queen, Tell It To Women, and The Desert Encroaches.

Download or read book Shakara written by Tess Onwueme and published by International Images Net, LLC. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHAKARA: DANCE-HALL QUEEN Shakara is 17 years-old and a school drop-out, who can no longer stand her poor mother with her "born-again" sister as squatters in a shanty, where the single mother toils to raise them with her meager income from being nanny and chief laborer for Madam Kofo a drug baroness and socialite in the city that is split between the rich and the poor. Shakara joins a gang and flees home; then the unexpected happens.

Download or read book A Hen Too Soon written by Osonye Tess Onwueme and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Reign of Wazobia written by Osonye Tess Onwueme and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Africa Wo Man Palava written by Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-04-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ogunyemi uses the novels to trace a Nigerian women's literary tradition that reflects an ideology centered on children and community. Of prime importance is the paradoxical Mammywata figure, the independent, childless mother, who serves as a basis for the postcolonial woman in the novels and in society at large. Ogunyemi tracks this figure through many permutations, from matriarch to writer, her multiple personalities reflecting competing loyalties. This sustained critical study counters prevailing "masculinist" theories of black literature in a powerful narrative of the Nigerian world.

Download or read book Nigerian Female Dramatists written by Bosede Ademilua-Afolayan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book showcases the important, but often understudied, work of Nigerian women playwrights. As in many spheres of life in Nigeria, in literature and other creative arts the voices of men dominate, and the work of women has often been sidelined. However, Nigerian women playwrights have made important contributions to the development of drama in Nigeria, not just by presenting female identities and inequalities but by vigorously intervening in wider social and political issues. This book draws on perspectives from culture, language, politics, theory, orality and literature, to shine a light on the engaged creativity of women playwrights. From the trail blazing but more traditional contributions of Zulu Sofola, through to contemporary postcolonial work by Tess Osonye Onwueme, Julie Okoh, and Sefi Atta, to name just a few, the book shows the rich variety of work being produced by female Nigerian dramatists. This, the first major collection devoted to Nigerian women playwrights, will be an important resource for scholars of African theatre and performance, literature and women's studies"--

Download or read book The Desert Encroaches written by Osonye Tess Onwueme and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Riot in Heaven written by Osonye Tess Onwueme and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Last of the Strong Ones written by Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ban Empty Barn written by Tess Akaeke Onwueme and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Men of Brewster Place written by Gloria Naylor and published by Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 1999 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen years ago, Gloria Naylor burst onto the American literary scene with The Women of Brewster Place. Now she has focused her attention on the other side of the story - the men of Brewster Place. Like the women, they are committed to one another and to their community. Ben, who died in the first Brewster Place novel, is resurrected to narrate the tales of seven men and the women who love them. The complexity of their personal issues and how they are resolved leaves the reader with renewed hope and optimism.

Download or read book Mirror for Campus written by Osonye Tess Onwueme and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Plays written by Osonye Tess Onwueme and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Onwueme has meticulously and brilliantly restitched many of these traditional and modern elements into plays that are temporally cyclical, thematically modal, ideorhythmically intricate, and histrionically edifying.