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What Mama Said: An Epic Drama (African American Life Series)
by Osonye Tess Onwueme

    Publication Date: Jun 01, 2003
    List Price: $21.95
    Format: Paperback, 208 pages
    Classification: Fiction
    ISBN13: 9780814331415
    Imprint: Wayne State University Press
    Publisher: Wayne State University Press
    Parent Company: Wayne State University

    Paperback Description:
    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 justice. Onwueme’s powerful characters and vibrant, emotionally charged scenes bring to life a turbulent movement for change and challenge to tradition. Aggrieved youths and militant women-whose husbands and sons work in the refineries or have been slaughtered in the violent struggle-take center stage to "drum" their pain in this drama about revolution. Determined to finally confront the multinational forces that have long humiliated them, Sufferland villagers burn down pipelines and kidnap an oil company director. Tensions peak, and activist leaders are put on trial before a global jury that can no longer ignore the situation. What Mama Said is a moving portrayal of the battle for human rights, dignity, compensation, and the right of a nation’s people to control the resources of their own land.


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