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| the reign of wazobia summary: Three Plays Osonye Tess Onwueme, 1993 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. |
| the reign of wazobia summary: Shakara Tess Onwueme, 2015-11-11 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. |
| the reign of wazobia summary: No Vacancy! (a Play) Osonye Tess Onwueme, 2005 This play from award-winning dramatist Tess Onwueme is about a group of highly talented, educated but unemployed youths who feel wasted and betrayed by a government who has told them they must get an education to be employed. After their hard-earned degrees they cannot find any work. Worse still, the industries and jobs have migrated overseas as the government leaders collude with their powerful international business allies to exploit cheap labour. The youth form a group to create radical change but soon find they are facing their own internal crises. |
| the reign of wazobia summary: What Mama Said Osonye Tess Onwueme, 2003-06-01 An explosive political drama projecting an African people’s revolutionary struggle to confront government forces and foreign oil corporations that have ravaged their land and strangled the voices of their mothers and daughters. 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. |
| the reign of wazobia summary: Coming to Birth Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye, 2000-12-01 In this quietly powerful and eminently readable novel, winner of the prestigious Sinclair Prize, Kenyan writer Marjorie Macgoye deftly interweaves the story of one young woman’s tumultuous coming of age with the history of a nation emerging from colonialism. At the age of sixteen, Paulina leaves her small village in western Kenya to join her new husband, Martin, in the bustling city of Nairobi. It is 1956, and Kenya is in the final days of the Emergency, as the British seek to suppress violent anti-colonial revolts. But Paulina knows little about, about city life, or about marriage, and Martin’s clumsy attempts to control her soon lead to a relationship filled with silences, misunderstandings, and unfulfilled expectations. Soon Paulina’s inability to bear a child effectively banishes her from the confines of traditional women’s roles. As her country at last moves toward independence, Paulina manages to achieve a kind of independence as well: She accepts a job that will require her to live separately from her husband, and she has an affair that leads to the birth of her first child. But Paulina’s hard-won contentment will be shattered when Kenya’s turbulent history intrudes into her private life, bringing with it tragedy—and a new test of her quiet courage and determination. Paulina’s patient struggles for survival and identity are revealed through Marjorie Macgoye’s keen and sensitive vision—a vision which extends to embrace the whole of a nation and a people likewise struggling to find their way. As the Weekly Standard of Kenya notes, Coming to Birth is a radical novel in firmly asserting our common humanity. |
| the reign of wazobia summary: The Broken Calabash Tess Osonye Onwueme, 2018-12-30 Ona is a college student and the only child of her parents. By the Nigerian folk tradition of Ogwashi-uku, Ona is an Idegbe--a Male Daughter and Female Husband--who isexpected to remain at home to bear children to continue her family line. However, if she insists on marrying out to a man as her husband, she must marry a wife to take her place in the family. These alternatives are unsavory to the western educated Ona, and she rebels. How the traditional society with Ona's doting father grapple with their challenged-destiny sets the drumbeats of the drama. |
| the reign of wazobia summary: Tell it to Women Osonye Tess Onwueme, 1997 Tell It To Women gives traditional rural women a voice: the women from Idu break from their assumed position of silence and powerlessness to confront the urban women who believe their western education gives them the authority to speak for all women. Using the magic of movement, dance, and drama, and the devices of humor and metaphor, Osonye Tess Onwueme has created a post-feminist epic drama that transcends current feminist theories. An ideologically and politically powerful work, Tell It to Women offers a critical discourse on the western feminist movement from an African traditional perspective, focusing attention on the often silenced issues of intra-gender politics and class inequities. |
| the reign of wazobia summary: The Desert Encroaches Osonye Tess Onwueme, 1985 |
| the reign of wazobia summary: Ban Empty Barn Tess Akaeke Onwueme, Osonye Tess Onwueme, 1989 |
| the reign of wazobia summary: Harvest of Corruption Frank Ogodo Ogbeche, 2005 |
| the reign of wazobia summary: From Divided Pasts to Cohesive Futures Hiroyuki Hino, Arnim Langer, John Lonsdale, Frances Stewart, 2019-08-22 Offers an insightful yet readable study of the paths - and challenges - to social cohesion in Africa, by experienced historians, economists and political scientists. |
| the reign of wazobia summary: The Missing Face Tess Onwueme, 2015-12-04 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. |
| the reign of wazobia summary: Feminist Stylistics Sara Mills, 2016-03-30 First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
| the reign of wazobia summary: Contemporary Nigerian Theatre Olu Obafemi, 1996 |
| the reign of wazobia summary: A Hen Too Soon Osonye Tess Onwueme, 1983 |
| the reign of wazobia summary: The African Film Industry UNESCO, 2021-10-01 The production and distribution of film and audiovisual works is one of the most dynamic growth sectors in the world. Thanks to digital technologies, production has been growing rapidly in Africa in recent years. For the first time, a complete mapping of the film and audiovisual industry in 54 States of the African continent is available, including quantitative and qualitative data and an analysis of their strengths and weaknesses at the continental and regional levels.The report proposes strategic recommendations for the development of the film and audiovisual sectors in Africa and invites policymakers, professional organizations, firms, filmmakers and artists to implement them in a concerted manner. |
| the reign of wazobia summary: Religion and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Southern Africa Fortune Sibanda, Tenson Muyambo, Ezra Chitando, 2022-02-24 This book investigates the role of religion in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Southern Africa. Building on a diverse range of methodologies and disciplinary approaches, the book reflects on how religion, politics and health have interfaced in Southern African contexts, when faced with the sudden public health emergency caused by the pandemic. Religious actors have played a key role on the frontline throughout the pandemic, sometimes posing roadblocks to public health messaging, but more often deploying their resources to help provide effective and timely responses. Drawing on case studies from African indigenous knowledge systems, Islam, Rastafari and various forms of Christianity, this book provides important reflections on the role of religion in crisis response. This book will be of interest to researchers across the fields of African Studies, Health, Politics and Religious Studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. |
| the reign of wazobia summary: If Ola Rotimi, 1983 |
| the reign of wazobia summary: The Theatre of Revolt Robert Brustein, 1991 First published in 1964 by Little, Brown. First Elephant paperback with a new preface by the author. |
| the reign of wazobia summary: Hangmen Also Die Esiaba Irobi, 1989 |
| the reign of wazobia summary: The Wives' Revolt , 2004 |
| the reign of wazobia summary: Wedlock of the Gods 'Zulú Ṣofọla, 1973 |
| the reign of wazobia summary: Encountering the Nigerian State W. Adebanwi, E. Obadare, 2010-07-05 Thisvolume advances extant reflections on the state constituted as the Ur-Power in society, particularly in Africa.It analyzes how various agents within the Nigerian society'encounter' the state - ranging from the most routine form of contact to thespectacular. While many recent collections have reheated the old paradigms - of the perils of federalism; corruption; ethnicity etc, our focus here is on encounter , that is, the nuance and complexity of how the state shapes society and vice-versa.Through this, wedepart from the standard state versus society approach that proves so limiting in explaining the African political landscape. |
| the reign of wazobia summary: Sweet Revenge Irene Isoken Salami-Agunloye, 2007 |
| the reign of wazobia summary: The Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean Theatre Martin Banham, Errol Hill, George Woodyard, 1994-08-04 Comprehensive alphabetical guide to theatre in Africa and the Caribbean: national essays and entries on countries and performers. |
| the reign of wazobia summary: Storytelling: Global Reflections on Narrative Tracy Ann Hayes, Theresa Edlmann, Laurinda Brown, 2019-05-15 This book is a collection of papers from an international inter-disciplinary conference focusing on storytelling and human life. The chapters in this volume provide unique accounts of how stories shape the narratives and discourses of people’s lives and work; and those of their families and broader social networks. From making sense of history; to documenting biographies and current pedagogical approaches; to exploring current and emerging spatial and media trends; this book explores the possibilities of narrative approaches as a theoretical scaffold across numerous disciplines and in diverse contexts. Central to all the chapters is the idea of stories being a creative and reflexive means to make sense of people’s past, current realities and future possibilities. Contributors are Prue Bramwell-Davis, Brendon Briggs, Laurinda Brown, Rachel Chung, Elizabeth Cummings, Szymon Czerkawski, Denise Dantas, Joanna Davidson, Nina Dvorko, Sarah Eagle, Theresa Edlmann, Gavin Fairbairn, Keven Fletcher, Sarah Garvey, Phyllis Hastings, Tracy Ann Hayes, Welby Ings, Stephanie Jacobs, Dean Jobb, Caroline M. Kisiel, Maria-Dolores Lozano, Mădălina Moraru, Michael R. Ogden, Nancy Peled, Valerie Perry, Melissa Lee Price, Rasa Račiūnaitė-Paužuolienė, Irena Ragaišienė, Remko Smid, Paulette Stevens, Cheryl Svensson, Mary O’Brien Tyrrell, Shunichi Ueno, Leona Ungerer, Sarah White, Wai-ling Wong and Bridget Anthonia Makwemoisa Yakubu. |
| the reign of wazobia summary: Dance on His Grave Barclays Ayakoroma, 2002 |
| the reign of wazobia summary: Minority Rights and the National Question in Nigeria Uyilawa Usuanlele, Bonny Ibhawoh, 2017-03-18 This book offers a thematic study of key debates in the history of the ethnic politics, democratic governance, and minority rights in Nigeria. Nigeria provides a framework for examining the central paradox in post-colonial nation building projects in Africa – the tension between majority rule and minority rights. The liberal democratic model on which most African states were founded at independence from colonial rule, and to which they continue to aspire, is founded on majority rule. It is also founded on the protection of the rights of minority groups to political participation, social inclusion and economic resources. Maintaining this tenuous balance between majority rule and minority rights has, in the decades since independence, become the key national question in many African countries, perhaps none more so than Nigeria. This volume explores these issues, focusing on four key themes as they relate to minority rights in Nigeria: ethnic and religious identities, nationalism and federalism, political crises and armed conflicts. |
| the reign of wazobia summary: The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born Ayi Kwei Armah, 1988 This novel is a treatment of the theme of corruption wrought by poverty. It is the story of an upright man resisting the temptations of easy bribes and easy satisfactions and winning for his honesty nothing but scorn even from those he loves. |
| the reign of wazobia summary: Models of God Sallie McFague, 1987-01-01 In this award-winning text, theologian Sallie McFague challenges Christians' usual speech about God as a kind of monarch. She probes instead three other possible metaphors for God as mother, lover, and friend. |
| the reign of wazobia summary: Riot in Heaven Osonye Tess Onwueme, 2002 |
| the reign of wazobia summary: Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh Esiaba Irobi, 1989 |
| the reign of wazobia summary: Morountodun and Other Plays Femi Osofisan, 1982 Based on the ancient myth of Moremi, the Ife queen who infiltrated the enemy camp to ensure her people's triumph, Morountodun brilliantly brings the story up to date. No More The Wasted Breed and Red is the Freedom Road complete a collection by one of Nigeria's best-known playwrights.--Page 4 of cover |
| the reign of wazobia summary: House of Symbols Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo, 2005 |
| the reign of wazobia summary: Madam Tinubu Akínwùmí Íṣọ̀lá, 1998 Directed by Wole Soyinka, this play was the 1979 convocation play of the then University of Ife. This is the first time it has been published in book form. The story presents a unique glimpse into the social and political powers of an important African woman who was strong enough to engage the colonial authorities, the indulgent African elite and the consenting traditional ruler. The ideological and moral battle is about the destiny of Africans in their own country, and the role of women in African societies. |
| the reign of wazobia summary: Queer African Reader Hakima Abbas, Sokari Ekine, 2013 As increasing homophobia and transphobia across Africa threatens to silence the voices of African Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) people, Queer African Reader brings together a collection of writings, analysis and artistic works that engage with the struggle for LGBTI liberation. |
| the reign of wazobia summary: Hands that Crush Stone Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo, 2010 |
| the reign of wazobia summary: Esu and the Vagabond Minstrels Femi Osofisan, 2003 |
| the reign of wazobia summary: Portrayals of Masculinity in Nigerian Plays Beatrice Nwawuloke Onuoha, 2023-10-16 Portrayals of Masculinity in Nigerian Plays explores Nigerian people's notions of masculinity as portrayed in twelve Nigerian plays, written by three generations of Nigerian playwrights. This book identifies different thoughts of masculinity within the Nigerian space in which hegemonic masculinity is the predominant. |
| the reign of wazobia summary: Fate of a Cockroach Tawfīq Ḥakīm, 1973 TEWFIK AL HAKIM is the most famous playwright in Egypt and throughout the Arab World. A Cairo theatre is named after him. He has written some seventy plays, a number of which have been translated into most European languages. This selection is translated by Denys Johnson-Davies who has introduced several Arab authors to the English-speaking world by means of Translations of singular imagination and distinction. This volume contains four plays by the undisputed pioneer of dramatic writing in Arabic, which illustrate the author's varied themes and styles. The plays range from the romantic atmosphere of the One Thousand and One Nights entertainment to domestic comedy, from a melodrama reminiscent of Lorca's Terma to the Theatre of the Absurd. |
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Hidden between the lines of the history books is the story of Mary Stuart, the young woman the world would come to know as Mary, Queen of Scots. The teenage Mary is already a …
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Mary, the teenage queen of Scotland, moves to France to marry a prince and secure a strategic alliance for her country. But as she tries to navigate palace intrigue in the perilous world of the …
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This vivid historical drama series tells of the rise to power of Mary, Queen of Scots, amid a court full of sexual and political intrigue. Watch trailers & learn more.
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