African Women Playwrights: An Anthology

African Women Playwrights: An Anthology is a collection of plays compiled and edited by Kathy A. Perkins (1954-)[1].

This anthology consists of nine plays by a diverse group of women from throughout the African continent. The plays focus on a wide range of issues, such as cultural differences, AIDS, female circumcision, women's rights to higher education, racial and skin color identity, prostitution as a form of survival for young girls, and nonconformist women resisting old traditions. The publication also includes commentaries by the playwrights on their own plays, and editor Kathy A. Perkins provides additional commentary and a bibliography of published and unpublished plays by African women.

Published by University of Illinois Press, 2009.

The volume contains:

The playwrights featured are Ama Ata Aidoo, Violet R. Barungi, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nathalie Etoke, Dania Gurira, Andiah Kisia, Sindiwe Magona, Malika Ndlovu (Lueen Conning), Juliana Okoh and Nikkole Salter.

Sources

https://books.google.co.za/books/about/African_Women_Playwrights.html?id=dn_zTfKbr0wC&redir_esc=y

http://www.kathyaperkins.com/

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