Osonye Tess Onwueme

Osonye Tess Onwueme also known as T. Akaeke Onwueme (born 8 September 1955) is a Nigerian playwright, scholar and poet.

Quotes

• People create social conditions and people can change them.
  • Osonye Tess Onwueme's quote

Quotes about Tess Onwueme

• Onwueme’s creative works continue to influence and generate significant interest around the world, as they are widely produced/staged, studied, taught, and written about in scholarly books, dissertations, theses, book chapters, journal articles, and international media. Onwueme’s works have a wide range of social, political, historical, cultural and environmental concerns of the masses in the global community today, with emphasis on women, youth in continental Africa and the Diaspora.
  • Dr. Kanika Batra as quoted in Osonye Tess Onwueme, African American Literature Book Club.
• Tess Onwueme's play is a spellbinding theatre work! It is written as if Dr. Onwueme is composing a symphonic work... Along with her other masterwork, The Missing Face [this drama] places Tess Onwueme in the ranks of Wole Soyinka, Athol Fugard, and Derek Walcott.
  • Woodie King Jr. as quoted in Reviews, African Books Collective.
• In her work, Onwueme has shown daring in her exploration of ideas even if they lead to subjects and themes which may seem taboo. Onwueme is eminently a political dramatist, for power affects every other aspect of society. She explores these themes with a dazzling array of images and proverbs. Her drama and theater are a feast of music, mime, proverbs, and story-telling...[thus] Onwueme consolidates her position among the leading dramatists from Africa.
  • Ngugi wa Thiong’o as quoted in Reviews, African Books Collective.
• Through the voices of women, Onwueme draws out universal themes of conflict. She uses the dramatic form to express an optimism for the future, for change and challenge to the repressive powers over people’s lives.
  • Nina Adams as quoted in Africa's Best Female Playwright Based in The USA:, Writertess.
• Internationally renowned for her award-winning plays, Dr. Tess Onwueme is the literary soul-mate of Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and Ngugi wa Thiong’o. She is the first African woman dramatist to break into their ranks, so that What Mama Said, Tell it to Women, Shakara: Dance-Hall Queen, The Missing Face, The Desert Encroaches and the Reign of Wazobia become staples of international college and university curricular in the 21st century.
  • Professor Sonja Darlington as quoted in Tess Osonye Onwueme Biographical Statement.