Osonye Tess Onwueme

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Osonye Tess Onwueme

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According to Wikipedia, Osonye Tess Onwueme, also known as T. Akaeke Onwueme is a Nigerian playwright, scholar and poet, who rose to prominence writing plays with themes of social justice, culture, and the environment. In 2010, she became the university Professor of Global Letters, following her exceptional service as Distinguished Professor of Cultural Diversity and English at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. Through her plays, she is able to use the theatre as a medium to showcase historically silenced views such as African women, and shedding more light on African life. She sustains her advocacy for the global poor and youth, along with the experiences and concerns of the African Diaspora in her creative work. In 2007, the U.S. State Department appointed her to the Public Diplomacy Speaker Program for North, East, and West India. The 2009 Tess International Conference: Staging Women, Youth, Globalization, and Eco-Literature, which was exclusively devoted to the author's work, was successfully held by international scholars in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, following the Fonlon-Nichols award to the dramatist. She is regarded as one of the band of more important African authors. She also is an active speaker regarding domestic violence.

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Osonye Tess Onwueme's Published Works

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The reign of Wazobia (1988) (14)
Visions of Myth in Nigerian Drama: Femi Osofisan Versus Wole Soyinka (1991) (7)
The desert encroaches (1985) (2)
Osofisan's New Hero: Women as Agents of Social Reconstruction. (1988) (2)
Interview with Tess Onwueme (2017) (0)
Speaking Without Toungue: Silence and Self-Search in Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1990) (0)
“If you want Justice, You must work for Truth.” Fonlon-Nichols Award Address, Presented at 2009 Meeting of the African Literature Association, University of Vermont (2009) (0)
Ladies and Gentlemen, Introducing the Many Faces of ALA 2009 (2009) (0)

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