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When: November 11-14
Where: University of Abuja, FCT, Abuja, Nigeria.
Event Information: For more information please visit www.tessconference.com or call 806-742-2501
Osonye Tess Onwueme, Distinguished Professor of Cultural Diversity and English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, is currently, one of the best known and most prolific women playwrights of African descent. She is a winner of several international awards, including the 2009 prestigious Fonlon Nichols Award.
This conference focuses centrally on Tess Onwueme as a playwright, scholar, activist, and producer whose works explore a wide range of social, political, historical, cultural and environmental concerns of Nigerians, specifically, women, youth, and people of the Niger Delta, as well as Africans on the continent and in the African diaspora.
International Organizing Committee: Prof Maureen Eke; Dr. Kanika Batra; Prof. Sonja Darlington; Dr. Mabel Evwieriohma
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