Osonye Tess Onwueme

**Osonye Tess Onwueme**,  amara dika **T. Akaeke Onwueme** (amụrụ na 8 Septemba 1995) bụ onye Naijiria na-ede egwuregwu, ọkà-mmụta na onye na-ede uri, onye ghọrọ onye a ma ama na-ede egwuregwu na isiokwu nke ikpe ọha, omenala, na gburugburu ebe obibi. Na 2010, ọ ghọrọ Prọfesọ nke Global Letters, maka ọrụ ya pụrụ iche dịka Prọfesọ na-ahụ maka ọdịbendị na asụsụ Bekee na Mahadum Wisconsin–Eau Claire. Site n'egwuregwu ya, o nwere ike iji ụlọ ihe nkiri dị ka ikpo okwu iji kwupụta echiche ndị nke egbochori dị ka ụmụ nwanyị Africa, na-enwu ọkụ na ọnọdụ nke ndụ na Africa. Ọ na-akwado nkwado ya maka ndị ogbenye na ndị ntorobịa zuru ụwa ọnụ, yana ahụmịhe na nchegbu nke ndị Afrika bi obodo oyibo na ọrụ edemede ya. A na-ahụta ya dịka otu n'ime otu ndị ode akwụkwọ Africa dị oke mkpa. Ọ bụkwa onye na-ekwusi okwu ike banyere ime nwaanyị ihe megide n'ụlọ.

## Mmalite ndụ na mmuta
Amuru ya Osonye Akeake na Ogwashi Ukwu, na Delta nke ugbua, bu ezi na-ulo nke barrister Chief Akaeke na Maria Eziashi. Osonye gụrụ akwụkwọ na Mary Mount Secondary School; ọ bụ mgbe ọ nọ n'ụlọ akwụkwọ ka ọ malitere ide akwụkwọ. Mgbe ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ sekọndrị, ọ lụrụ otu ọkà mmụta agronomist, I. C. Onwueme, wee mụọ ụmụ ise, n'oge ọ gara Mahadum nke Ife, maka nzere na mmuta agụmakwụkwọ (1979) na nzere mastas na ịgụ akwụkwọ (1982). O nwetara PhD nke African Drama na Mahadum Benin. N’afọ 1998, ọ lụrụ Obika Gray, onye Sayensị ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị si Jamaica.

## Ọrụ

* *A Hen Too Soon* (1983)
* *Broken Calabash* (1984)
* *The Desert Encroaches* (1985)
* *The Reign of Wazobia* (1988)
* *Ban Empty Barn and other plays* (1986)
* *Legacies* (1989)
* *Three Plays: an anthology of plays by Tess Onwueme* (1993)
* *Tell It To Women: an epic drama* (1995).
* *Riot In Heaven: drama for the voices of color* (1996; 2006)
* *The Missing Face, a play* (1997; 2000)
* *Shakara: Dance-Hall Queen: a play* (2000; 2006)
* *Then She Said It: a play* (2003)
* *What Mama Said, an epic drama* (2004)
* *No Vacancy* (2005)

## Onyinye nsọpụrụ
O merie ọtụtụ onyinye mba ụwa, gụnyere nke a ma ama Fonlon-Nichols (2009), Phyllis Wheatley / Nwapa maka ndi oji na-ede akwukwo gbara ama (2008), Martin Luther King, Jr./Caeser Chavez Distinguished Writers Award (1989/90), Distinguished Authors Award (1988), na onyinye nke Nzukọ ndị na-ede akwụkwọ na Naijiria  bụ Drama Prize, nke o meriri ọtụtụ oge na eije dịka *The Desert Encroaches* (1985), *Tell It To Women* (1995), *Shakara: Dance-Hall Queen* (2001), *Then She Said it* (2003) dgz.

## Ebe m si dee

## Ọgụgụ ọzọ

* Simon Gikandi, *Encyclopedia of African Literature*, Routledge (2002),   - pp.&nbsp;414–15
* Ini Uko, *Gender and Identity in the Works of Tess Onwueme*, Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press, 2004
* Chris Dunton, "Nigeria and the Diaspora, Solidarities and Discords: The Drama of Tess Onwueme", in Toyin Falola (ed.), *Nigeria in the Twentieth Century*. Durham, North Carolina. Carolina Academic Press, 2002. pp.&nbsp;791–798
* Therese Migraine-George, "African Women on the Global Stage", *African Women and Representation: From Performance to Politics*. Trenton: Africa World Press, 2008. pp.&nbsp;157–178.
* Kanika Batra, "Daughters who Know the Language of Power: Community, Sexuality, and Postcolonial Development In Tess Onwueme's *Tell it to Women,*" *Interventions: Journal of Postcolonial Studies*, Vol. 9, 1 (2007), 124–138, (ISSN 1369-801X print/1469-929X online)
* J. O. J. Nwachukwu-Agbada, "Tess Onwueme: Dramatist In Quest of Change", *<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Literature_Today" rel="mw:ExtLink" title="World Literature Today" class="cx-link" data-linkid="66">World Literature Today</a>* (Summer 1992), 464–467.

## Njikọ dị na mpụga

* Dr. Osonye Tess Onwueme's website

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