Osonye Tess Onwueme
Osonye Tess Onwueme, also known as T. Akaeke Onwueme (born 8 September 1955) is a
Early life and education
After secondary education, she married an agronomist, I. C. Onwueme, and bore five children, during the time she attended the University of Ife, for her bachelor's degree in education (1979) and master's in literature (1982). She obtained her PhD at the University of Benin, studying African Drama. In 1998 she married Obika Gray, a Jamaican political scientist.[4]
Works
- A Hen Too Soon (1983)
- Broken Calabash (1984)
- The Desert Encroaches (1985)
- The Reign of Wazobia (1988)
- Ban Empty Barn and other plays (1986)
- Legacies (1989)
- Three Plays: an anthology of plays by Tess Onwueme (1993)
- Tell It To Women: an epic drama (1995).
- Riot In Heaven: drama for the voices of color (1996; 2006)
- The Missing Face, a play (1997; 2000)
- Shakara: Dance-Hall Queen: a play (2000; 2006)
- Then She Said It: a play (2003)
- What Mama Said, an epic drama (2004)
- No Vacancy (2005)
Awards
She has won several international awards, including: the prestigious Fonlon-Nichols award (2009),[5] the Phyllis Wheatley/Nwapa award for outstanding black writers (2008),[6] the Martin Luther King, Jr./Caeser Chavez Distinguished Writers Award (1989/90),[7] the Distinguished Authors Award (1988),[8] and the Association of Nigerian Authors Drama Prize, which she has won several times with plays such as The Desert Encroaches (1985),[9] Tell It To Women (1995),[10] Shakara: Dance-Hall Queen (2001),[11] Then She Said it (2003),[12] among numerous honors and international productions of her drama.[13]
References
- ^ "Guide to the Tess Osonye Onwueme Papers, 1975–2014". University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Retrieved 2023-05-09.
- ^ N. Graham Nesmith. "Osonye Tess Onweume. What Mama Said: An Epic Drama", in African American Review, Spring-Summer 2005 accessed at March 29, 2007.
- ^ Ibrahim Hirsi (4 September 2015). "'They can be stopped': Bukola Oriola takes her story of surviving domestic violence from Minnesota to Nigeria". Minn Post. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
- ^ Marvie Brooks, "Onwueme, Tess", Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing, Routledge, 2001, p. 243.
- ^ "Celebrating Prof Tess Onwueme". Vanguard News. 2019-01-26. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
- ^ "Delta-Born Tess Onwueme Celebrated Abroad". The Pointer News Online. 2014-11-29. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
- ^ "Onwueme, Osonye Tess 1955– | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
- ^ "Guide to the Tess Osonye Onwueme Papers, 1975-2014". University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
- ^ "African Books Collective: Tess Osonye Onwueme". www.africanbookscollective.com. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
- ^ "Riot In Heaven: Drama for the Voices of Color". Dr. Tess Onwueme's Official Website. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
- ^ "African novel, women, theatre and culture, dramatist, Tess Onwueme". www.writertess.com. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
- ^ "Culture and Osonye Tess Onwueme Essay - 480 Words | Major Tests". www.majortests.com. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
- ^ Postcolonial Web
Further reading
- ISBN 0-415-23019-5- pp. 414–15
- Ini Uko, Gender and Identity in the Works of Tess Onwueme, Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press, 2004
- Chris Dunton, "Nigeria and the Diaspora, Solidarities and Discords: The Drama of Tess Onwueme", in Toyin Falola (ed.), Nigeria in the Twentieth Century. Durham, North Carolina. Carolina Academic Press, 2002. pp. 791–798
- Therese Migraine-George, "African Women on the Global Stage", African Women and Representation: From Performance to Politics. Trenton: Africa World Press, 2008. pp. 157–178.
- Kanika Batra, "Daughters who Know the Language of Power: Community, Sexuality, and Postcolonial Development In Tess Onwueme's Tell it to Women," Interventions: Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 9, 1 (2007), 124–138, (ISSN 1369-801X print/1469-929X online)
- J. O. J. Nwachukwu-Agbada, "Tess Onwueme: Dramatist In Quest of Change", World Literature Today (Summer 1992), 464–467.