What Mama Said: An Epic Drama

by Osonye Tess Onwueme

Book Overview

Renowned playwright Osonye Tess Onwueme's powerful new drama illuminates the effect of national and global oil politics on the lives of impoverished rural Nigerians. What Mama Said is set in the metaphorical state of Sufferland, whose people are starving and routinely exploited and terrorized by corrupt government officials and multinational oil companies--that is, until a voice erupts and moves the wounded women and youths to rise up and demand...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814331416
• ISBN13: 9780814331415
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"