Osonye Tess Onwueme's Works

2000 Why the Elephant has no Butt. San Francisco: African Heritage Press. Ltd.
2000 Shakara: Dance-Hall Queen (play). San Francisco: African Heritage Press. Ltd.
1999 Tell It to Women (an epic drama for women). Detroit: Wayne State University Press [excerpt]
1997 The Missing Face (play). New York. Africana Legacy Press. Inc.
1996 Riot in Heaven (drama for the voices of color). New York. Africana Legacy Press. Inc.
1993 Three Plays: An Anthology of Three Plays by Tess Onwueme. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.
1991 Parables for a Season (play). Ibadan: Heinemann Educational Books. Plc.
1989 Legacies (play). Ibadan: Heinemann Educational Books. Plc.
1988 The Reign of Wazobia and Other Plays. Ibadan: Heinemann Educational Books. Plc.
1987 Mirror for Campus (play). Owerri: Leadway Communications. Ltd.
1986 Ban Empty Barn and Other Plays. Ibadan: Heinemann Educational Books. Plc.
1986 A Scent of Onions (play). Owerri: Totan Publishers. Ltd.
1985 The Desert Enroaches (play). Owerri: Totan Publishers. Ltd.
1984 The Broken Calabash (play). Owerri: Totan Publishers. Ltd.
1983 A Hen Too Soon (play). Owerri: Heins Nigeria Publishers. Ltd.

Work in Progress

Literary Activity in Progress: "What I Cannot Tell My Father" (a novel).

Research in Progress: "Who Can Silence the Drums? Delta Women Speak!" My $98.000.00 Ford Foundation research/drama project. with focus on the rural women of the oil-producing Niger-Delta region of Nigeria.


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