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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction & general bibliography / Yvette Hutchison & Amy Jephta -- Plays: with biographies, production histories and critical introductions -- Niqabi ninja / Sara Sawaari (Egypt) -- Not that woman / Tosin Tume (Nigeria) -- I want to fly / Thembelilhe Moyo (Zimbabwe) -- Silent voices / Adong Judith (Uganda) -- Unsettled / JC Niala (Kenya) -- Mbuzeni / Koleka Putuma (South Africa) -- Bonganyi / Sophia Mempuh (Cameroon).

This volume draws together six contemporary plays by female African writers, offering a rare insight into the work being produced by these practitioners. These plays, which are selected from writers across the continent, together give a rich portrait of identity, politics, culture and society in contemporary Africa. The editors of the volume have also provided biographies and the writers' own artistic statements; production histories; and a critical contextualisation of the theatre from which each woman is writing. This provides a rich context from which these plays can be prescribed for study, both at secondary school and undergraduate level--Provided by publisher.