Osonye Tess Onwueme

Osonye Tess Onwueme is a Distinguished Professor of Cultural Diversity and English at the University of Wisconsin.

Then She Said It. A Play

Osonye Tess Onwueme

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.

"The playwright must be commended for the brilliant imagery in the dialogue ..." -The African Book Publishing Record

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