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For the first time, a distinctive collection of plays by African women published in English

Table of 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

About the Author

Kathy A. Perkins is a professor of theatre at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her publications include Black South African Women: An Anthology of Plays, Strange Fruit: Plays on Lynching by American Women, and several other anthologies of plays.

Reviews

"These plays are fascinating; the plots and characters are varied, interesting, and well developed. Moreover, as the only collection of plays written exclusively by African women, this collection will be immensely appealing to students and scholars of theatre, literature, cultural studies, African studies, and women's studies, as well as general readers interested in contemporary African plays and playwrights." Judith Stephens-Lorenz, editor of The Plays of Georgia Douglas Johnson: From the New Negro Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement