What Mama Said: An Epic Drama

An explosive political drama projecting an African people's revolutionary struggle to confront government forces and foreign oil...
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Author: Osonye Tess Onwueme
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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What Mama Said: An Epic Drama by Onwueme, Osonye Tess

What Mama Said: An Epic Drama

Dhs. 254.06

What Mama Said: An Epic Drama

Dhs. 254.06
Author: Osonye Tess Onwueme
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.



Author: Osonye Tess Onwueme
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 06/01/2003
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.14h x 5.98w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9780814331415

About the Author
Osonye Tess Onwueme is Professor of English at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. She is the author of many plays, including The Missing Face (African Heritage Press, 2002), Shakara: Dance-Hall Queen (African Heritage Press, 2000), Tell It To Women (Wayne State University Press, 1997), and Three Plays (Wayne State University Press, 1993).

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