African women playwrights /

African women playwrights / edited and with an introduction by Kathy A. Perkins ; foreword by Amandina Lihamba. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009. - x, 364 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-364).

The dilemma of a ghost / Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana) -- Over my dead body / Violet Barungi (Uganda) -- She no longer weeps / Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe) -- Better days come in bitter ways / Nathalie Etok ̌(Cameroon) -- Homecoming / Andiah Kisia (Chika Okigbo) (Kenya) -- Vukani! (Wake up!) / Sindiwe Magona (South Africa) -- A coloured place / Malika Ndlovu (Lueen Conning) (South Africa) -- Edewede (The dawn of a new day) / Julie Okoh (Nigeria) -- In the continuum / Dania Gurira and Nikkole Salter (Zimbabwe and the United States).

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African drama (English)--Women authors.
African drama (English)--20th century.
Women--Africa--Drama.

PR9347 / .A385 2009

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