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Author Nyamndi, George, 1950-

Title Tussles : collected plays / G.D. Nyamndi
Published Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa ; [East Lansing] : Distributed in N. America by Michigan State University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 171 pages)
Series Langaa & African Studies Centre
African Studies Centre research series.
Contents The bite -- Things fall in place -- The will -- The imprisonment of Sende Ghandhi
Summary This collection groups together four plays--The Bite, Things Fall in Place, The Will and The Imprisonment of Sende Ghandi--written between 1995 and 2006. The plays in this volume dramatize a comprehensive world view. Through characters and themes chosen for their power to articulate the intended message, the plays paint a convincing and at times funny picture of human beings tussling with daily life. With clearly non-reductionist purpose, the actions all eschew the narrow minority questions so dominant in Cameroon Anglophone drama and instead reach out to concerns of a broader nature. In these plays Nyamndi does more than entertain. He reaches into the psychology of human relations and individual drives, and intimates responses to occasioned challenges. His wide, penetrating mind meanders in society: detecting the drunk before he takes his first drop; uncovering the embezzler even before he lays his hands on the collective holding; steeling the masses before the calamities of misrule descend on them; hoisting the flag of freedom long before revolutionaries come anywhere near the mast. He uses the play for healing purposes
Notes Print version record
Subject Cameroonian drama -- History and criticism
African history.
FICTION -- General.
Cameroonian drama
Travel
Drama
SUBJECT Africa -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001543
Africa -- Poetry
Subject Africa
Kamerun
Englisch.
Genre/Form Drama
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Poetry
Drama.
Théâtre.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789956717156
9956717150
9956615137
9789956615131
Other Titles Plays. Selections
Collected plays