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561 works of pan-African thought. 4 matching current filters.
A play based on events in Oyo, Nigeria in 1946, exploring the clash between Yoruba tradition and British colonial interference when the king dies and his horseman is expected to commit ritual suicide.
Based on the Ijo oral saga of Ozidi, a posthumous hero raised to avenge his father's murder, this play stages the seven-night ritual performance in literary form, combining violence, prophecy, and spectacle.
Ghana's first published play by an African woman. An African American woman marries a Ghanaian and returns with him to Africa, where she is caught between two worlds, belonging fully to neither.
Based on a Ghanaian legend, the play follows Anowa who defies her parents to marry the man she loves, only to watch him become a slave trader. A bold critique of complicity in the slave trade.