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About plays featured in this anthology
We feature modern plays by African writers. Most of these plays have never been performed. They remain new works by new and upcoming playwrights seeking sponsorship and support.
Plays featured here are mostly commedia-influenced farces and comedies of manners—plays that satirize the customs of human relationships in modern African realities—but they generally rise above their specific, contemporary targets and can be seen as observations on the flaws and limitations of humankind. A certain bitterness suffuses many of modern African dramas.
African drama is known variously as domestic drama, tearful comedy, or sentimental drama. It is more: African drama presents socio-economic questions of a continent. More pertinent issues for many years have been centrerd around politics - a people's yearning to be freed of bad governance under bad regimes. African drama typically presents a voice of protest. African drama quarrels - accuses former oppressive colonial masters, quarrels with governments, the church and higher authority. Playwrights have been killed, jailed, detained and forced into exile for such quarrels. Both in writing and production, increasing attention is given to realistic detail and historical accuracy, although these elements were not used with total consistency until the late 19th century.
African plays reflect a reaction or a reflection to different situations in Africa's long and restless political turmoil (colonialism, apartheid, bad political governance etc) . In opposition to colonialism and bad regimes, playwrights have always turned to radical and propagandist forms of theatre. Simultaneously there was a reaction against bourgeois literary drama; theatre companies increasingly sought to speak to the urban and rural poor and to include them in their activities by moving out of national theatre buildings and into the local areas.
On submittimg work for publishing Therefore, to this end, themes are boundless in plays we feature. These plays should focus on the ideological struggle for a just society in modern Africa.
Our editorial board has taken care to tailor these
plays to suit our adult audiences. Obakunta aims to establish linkages
with publishers and theatre personalities who may be interested
in publishing some of the works featured here. Are you a theatre
director, print publisher or an agent? contact us
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NOTE to writers: Seditious literature, offensive material and pornographic works are not accepted for publishing.
Do you want to submit a play e-mail:
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