Guide to the Tess Osonye Onwueme Papers, 1975–2014
Last Updated
Overview of the Collection
Repository:
Special Collections & Archives
McIntyre Library
University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire
P.O. Box 4004
105 Garfield Ave.
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004
(715) 836-2739
https://library.uwec.edu/archives/
Reference Code: USGZE AS598
Accession Number: 4-034; 15-015; 15-020; 22-008
Collection Number: Archives Series 598
Creators: University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire
Title: Tess Osonye Onwueme Papers
Dates: 1975–2014
Quantity: 33.7 linear feet (26 record cartons, 1 archives box, 1.8 oversize boxes); plus additions of 4.5 linear feet [15-015] (3 record cartons, 1 oversize box)
Location of Collection: D7/1b-D7/2f, A3/3e
Languages: Collection materials are primarily in English.
Biographical / Historical Note
Dr. Tess Osonye Onwueme was born on September 8, 1955 in Ogwashi-Uku (now Delta State, Nigeria). She received her Bachelor’s degree in Education from the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) in 1979, Master’s degree in Literature from the University of Nigeria in 1982, and PhD in English (dramatic literature) from the University of Benin Nigeria in 1987. She is the named University Professor of Global Letters at the University of Wisconsin, following her years of service as Distinguished Professor of Cultural Diversity and Professor of English.
Dr. Onwueme is the winner of several international awards, including the prestigious Folon-Nichols Award (2009), the Phyllis Wheatley Distinguished Award (2007), The Martin Luther King, Jr. Distinguished Writers Award (1989/1990), the African Distinguished Authors Award (1988), a four-time winner of the Association of Nigerian Authors Award (ANA) in 2003, 2001, 1995, and 1985. She was appointed to the US Department of State Public Diplomacy Speaker and Specialist Program for Northeast, and West India in 2007. On October 18, 2014, as part of the event celebrating the creation of an archival collection dedicated to Tess Onwueme, the Wisconsin State Legislature declared a proclamation in honor of Tess Onwueme; Wisconsin congressman Ron Kind also honored Tess Onwueme and President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria in a presidential address specially recognized Tess Onwueme’s contributions to world literature and the nation.
Dr. Onwueme has published over twenty creative dramas, including such provocative plays as No Vacancy (2005), What Mama Said (2004), Then She Said it (2003), Shakara: Dance-Hall Queen (2001), Tell it to Women (1997; 1995), The Missing Face (2006; 2002), Riot in Heaven (1996; 2002), Legacies (1989), The Reign of Wazobia (1988), Mirror for Campus (1987), Ban Empty Barn and Other Plays (1986), The Desert Encroaches (1985), The Broken Calabash (1984), and Why the Elephant Has No Butt (2000). Her plays have been performed internationally, including performances in the USA, Canada, Europe, the Caribbean, India, Nigeria and other parts of Africa. Dr. Onwueme’s plays have been performed at Off-Broadway venues and translated into the medium of film. In 2004 and 2005, as part of their World Drama Serivce, the BBC broadcast Onwueme’s Shakara. It is said that Dr. Onwueme’s literary soul-mates are Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, and Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Her literary works focus on conflict between rich and poor, modern and traditional, and the conflict of inner-self. The plays highlight basic human rights of nationality, age, sex, race, and sheds light on African life.
In addition to her successes as a scholar and playwright, Dr. Onwueme is also the mother of five children. Some of her work reflects the influence of her family life.
Scope and Content Note
The materials in the collection, consisting of correspondence, manuscripts, print materials, media, ephemera, subject files, associated materials and photographs span from 1975 to 2014, with the bulk of the content from the mid-1980s to early 2000s. The collection is organized into three series: (1) Professional and Scholarly Materials, (2) Administrative Materials from UW-Eau Claire and (3) Scholarship focused on Onwueme’s works. The first series, Professional and Scholarly Materials, is the largest series and is further separated into seven sub-series: Manuscripts and Presentations, Correspondence, Subject Files, Biographical Files, Photographs, Ephemera and Media. The second major series, Administrative Materials from UW-Eau Claire, is further subdivided into two sub-series: Correspondence and Subject Files.
Accession 15-015, received in September 2014, was partially incorporated into the collection under accession 22-008 in 2021–2022. 4.5 linear feet of materials containing primarily unsorted correspondence, publications, photographs, and media remains unprocessed.
Accession 15-020, received September 2014, was incorporated into the collection under accession 22-008 in 2021-2022.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information: Acquired by the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire Foundation in 2014. Transferred to the University Archives by the UW-Eau Claire Foundation in 2014.
Access Restrictions: Collection is open to the public.
Use Restrictions: Researchers are responsible for using in accordance with 17 U.S.C. Copyright not owned by the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire.
Processing Note: Processed by Melissa Schultz and Greg Kocken in summer and fall 2014.
Arrangement: By series and subseries.
OCLC #: 893687385
Subjects
Personal Names:
Onwueme, Tess Osonye
Onwueme, Tess Akaeke
Akaeke, T. O.
Corporate Names:
University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire
Subject Terms:
Women — Africa — Drama
Nigerian drama (English) — Women authors
Americans — Africa — Drama
African Americans — Drama
Mothers and sons — Drama
Africa — Drama
Nigeria — Drama
Petroleum industry and trade — Drama
Government, Resistance to — Drama
Political corruption — Drama
Mothers and daughters — Drama
African drama
Igbo (African people) — Folklore
Animals — Folklore
Tales — Nigeria
Satire
African drama — 20th century
Nigerian drama — 20th century
Nigerian drama — Women authors
Black drama (African)
African Americans — Travel — Africa — Drama
Mothers and sons — Africa — Drama
Universities and colleges — Teachers
Cultural diversity — Correspondence
Autobiography
History — Biography
Interviews
Coral art objects
Newspaper clippings
Theater — Posters
Manuscript
Study and teaching –– Particular subjects, A–Z — Women. Women's rights
Women's studies — Libraries — Special collections
Plays and stage productions
Conferences
Speeches
Books
Documentary
Photo albums
Photographs — Albums
Detailed List of Contents (excludes unprocessed additions)
Series 1: Professional Materials
Materials which document Tess Osonye Onwueme’s career as a playwright and scholar.
Sub-series 1: Manuscripts and Presentations
Dates: 1975–2014
Extent: 13.0 linear feet (13 record center cartons)
Container (Box/Folder)
Contents
Dates
1/1
The History of Ogwashi-Uku; Homework from Onwueme’s education
1975–1981
1/2
The Governor (incomplete)
1983
1/3
A Hen Too Soon (copy)
1983
1/4
The Children’s Way: A Collection of Plays for Senior Primary Schools
1983
1/5
Typed Poems
May 17, 1984
1/6
The Broken Calabash
1984
1/7
The Broken Calabash
1988
1/8
Osofisan’s Idiom of Confrontation: An Alternative Mode of Value and Valuation in Modern Nigerian Literary Aesthetics
1985
1/9
Daughters of Eve as Guardian Angels: Feminist Creed According to Femi Osofisan
Circa 1987 (PhD)
1/10
The Function of Metaphor in Osofisan’s The Chattering and the Song
Circa 1987 (PhD)
1/11
The Writter as the Pathfinder: The Dimension of Epic Theatre in Osofisan’s Once Upon Four Robbers
Circa 1987 (PhD)
1/12
Osofisan’s New Hero: Women As Agents of Social Reconstruction
Circa 1987 (PhD)
1/13
The “Shero” Present to Future
N.D.
1/14
Reason and Argument: Technique of Epic Theatre in Osofisan’s Drama
Circa 1987 (PhD)
1/15
The Desert Encroaches
1988
1/16
Heroism Among the West Niger Igbo: A Perspective from Orature
1986
1/17
Ban Empty Barn and other plays
1986
1/18
Ban Empty Barn and other plays (hardcover)
1986
1/19
Ban Empty Barn and other plays; The Artist’s Homecoming; Cattle Egret Versus Nama (Crime Patrol Unit) (copy)
1986
1/20
Ban Empty Barn (typed copy with edits)
N.D.
1/21
A Scent of Onions (copy)
1986
1/22
A Scent of Onions (copy with post-its and notes, missing some pages)
1986
1/23
Some Day Soon
1986
1/24
Some Day Soon (with notes)
1986
1/25
The Artist’s Homecoming
1986
1/26
In Search of a Theme (manuscript)
1986
1/27
In Search of a Theme-A play (copy)
1986
1/28
Drama for the Dead: The Dead as Heroes of the Living in Aniocha
C. 1986–1989
1/29
Acada Boys or Mirror for Campus
1987
1/30
Mirror for Campus
1987
1/31
Acada Boys — typed manuscript with edits
1987
1/32
Sfem A poem
1987
1/33
For A Season
1987
1/34
Parables For A Season
Circa 1985
1/35
Parables For A Season (typed draft)
Circa 1985
1/36
Parables For A Season in African American Plays for Today Anthology
1991
1/37
Parables For A Season production, Sudan
2007
1/38
“Osofian’s New Hero: Women as Social Reconstructions” In SAGE
1988
1/39
The Reign of Wazobia (copy)
1988
1/40
The Reign of Wazobia (edited for Three Plays)
N.D.
1/41
Reign of Wazobia Movie project
1996
1/42
Greetings, Names, and Praises in Aniocha
February 14, 1989
1/43
Greetings, Names, and Praises in Aniocha
February 14, 1989
1/44
Divorce in Aniocha
N.D.
1/45
Legacies
1989
1/46
Legacies reprint
1991
1/47
Legacies (script with notes)
N.D.
1/48
Fall production of Legacies
1995
1/49
Cobweb In A Stateman’s Eye
1989
1/50
Go Tell It To Women (alternative name Drums for Women) manuscript notes
1988–1989
1/51
The Broken Calabash
2014
1/52
The Reign of Wazobia
2014
1/51
Go Tell It To Women (an epic drama for women) second edition; original typeset 1 of 2
1993
2/1
Go Tell It To Women (an epic drama for women) second edition; original typeset 2 of 2
1993
2/2
Tell It To Women (an epic drama for women) revised edition 1 of 2
1994
2/3
Tell It To Women (an epic drama for women) revised edition 2 of 2
1994
2/4
Tell It To Women (an epic drama for women)
1997
2/5
Tell It To Women (an epic drama for women) Revisions for revised edition 1 of 3
N.D.
2/6
Tell It To Women (an epic drama for women) Revisions for revised edition 2 of 3
N.D.
2/7
Tell It To Women (an epic drama for women) Revisions for revised edition 3 of 3
N.D.
2/8
Going to Be…
May 28, 1990
2/9
“Speaking Without Tongue: Silence and Self-Search in Armah’s” in UFAHAMM
1990
2/10
Child of Color Sings A New Song (poem)
1990
2/11
Visions of Myth in Nigerian Drama: Femi Osofisan Versus Wole Soyinka
1991
2/12
Visions of Myth in Nigerian Drama: Femi Osofisan Versus Wole Soyinka (book)
1991
2/13
“Femi Osofisan and the Techniques of Epic Theater” in The Literary Griot
1991
2/14
“The Community as Shadow of the Individual in Achebe’s Novels” in Geneve-Africa
1991
2/15
The Riot of Colors poem (manuscript)
August 19, 1991
2/16
The Riot of Colors poem
1993
2/17
Riot In Heaven & Legacies
1991–1994
2/18
Riot In Heaven & Legacies (with notes)
1994
2/19
The Squirrel’s Daughter — manuscript
1992
2/20
You Don’t Need a Mother (manuscript)
2/21
Three Plays (The Broken Calabash; Parables for a Season; The Reign of Wazobia) (copy)
1993
2/22
Bodies in Silence: The Missing Diaspora in African Literature
1993
2/23
Bodies in Silence: The Missing Diaspora in African Literature (with notes)
1993
2/24
(An)other Artist’s Wayward Thought on Eugene Redmont Poetry
May 10, 1994
2/25
“Another African’s Wayward Thoughts on Eugene Redmond’s Poetry” in Dreams Deferred, Dead or Alive
1996
2/26
Poem, untitled
1994
2/27
Poem, untitled
1994–1995
2/28
What Are You in America?
1995
2/29
The Moon Is My Witness, a poem
1995
2/30
Reviews on “Fighting the Good Fight” and “Unbroken Thread” written by Onwueme
1995
2/31
Miscellaneous poems
1995
2/32
Manuscript — no title
May 13, 1996
3/1
If I could Vote
1996
3/2
Riot In Heaven
1996
3/3
Riot In Heaven (with notes)
1996
3/4
Riot In Heaven second edition
2006
3/5
Riot In Heaven — draft
September 28, 2006
3/6
Riot In Heaven — draft
November 9, 2006
3/7
Riot In Heaven — final edit
November 10, 2006
3/8
Riot In Heaven — draft
N.D.
3/9
Riot In Heaven — draft
N.D.
3/10
Riot In Heaven — draft
N.D.
3/11
Riot In Heaven — notes
N.D.
3/12
Riot In Heaven & Acada Boys
2003
3/13
To The Would-be African Female Writer: Husband Yourself First
1997
3/14
To The Would-be African Female Writer: Husband Yourself First
1999
3/15
Shifting Paradigms of Profit and Loss: Men in Flora Nwapo’s Fiction
1997
3/16
Shifting Paradigms of Profit and Loss: Men in Flora Nwapo’s Fiction
1998
3/17
The President’s Bag of Luck/His Majesty’s Bag of Luck (Manuscript)
1997
3/18
The President’s Bay of Luck (typed, incomplete)
N.D.
3/19
Igbo Proverb, Onwueme’s thoughts
March 25, 1997
3/20
Thinking of the Distance I Have Covered
August 29, 1997
3/21
Thinking About Me Nowadays, a poem
1997
3/22
The Missing Face
1997
3/23
The Missing Face (new edition)
2002
3/24
The Missing Face (new edition)
2005
3/25
The Missing Face – draft
1996
3/26
Notes- The Missing Face
N.D.
3/27
The Missing Face: An Intercultural and Educational Video-Drama, Production notes, Ford Foundation
1998
3/28
The Missing Face Performance
2001
3/29
The Missing Face
2012
3/29
Why the Elephant Has No Butt (manuscript notes)
1997–1998
3/30
Why the Elephant Has No Butt (Handwritten Notes)
N.D.
4/1
Why the Elephant Has No Butt (incomplete with notes)
N.D.
4/2
Why the Elephant Has No Butt (ch.1)
1997
4/3
Why the Elephant Has No Butt (submitted manuscript, Heinemann)
1997
4/4
Why The Elephant Has No Butt (submitted copy, Author’s Clearing House)
1997
4/5
Why The Elephant Has No Butt
2000
4/6
Why the Elephant Has No Butt (Final proof) Pine Hill Press
2000
4/7
Why the Elephant Has No Butt (Final proof copy with notes) Pine Hill Press
2000
4/8
Why the Elephant Has No Butt (typed with notes)
N.D.
4/9
Miscellaneous poems
1998
4/10
“Who Can Silence the Drums? Black Writers Speak!” in Black Academy Press
1998
4/11
When the Girls Play: What Drumbeats Will They Play About Life in the Flaming (Nigerian) Niger-Delta, a proposal
1999?
4/12
Running From My Body
1999
4/13
Shakara: Dance-Hall Queen (draft?)
1999
4/14
Shakara printed from floppy disk for Amoge Press
N.D.
4/15
Shakara: Dance-Hall Queen
2000
4/16
Shakara: Dance-Hall Queen (mock up with notes)
2000
4/17
Shakara: Dance-Hall Queen — second edition
2006
4/18
Shakara: Dance-Hall Queen — first draft
N.D.
4/19
Shakara: Dance-Hall Queen — draft
N.D.
4/20
Who Can Silence the Drums? Delta Women Speak! Ford Foundation Grant
1999
4/21
Miscellaneous Notebits
2001–2003
4/22
Poem — untitled
2001
4/23
Delta Women Speak manuscript (1 of 2)
November 2000?
5/1
Delta Women Speak manuscript (2 of 2)
November 2000?
5/2
Then She Said It (final copy)
2001
5/3
Then She Said It
2002
5/4
Then She Said It (copy with notes)
2002
5/5
Then She Said It (copy with edits)
2002
5/6
Then She Said It (bound copy with edits)
2002
5/7
Then She Said It (bound copy with edits)
N.D.
5/8
Then She Said It (typed with edits)
N.D.
5/9
Then She Said It — production
N.D.
5/10
Then She Said It — Ford Foundation Grant
2001
5/11
Buried in the Rubble
2002
5/12
A Season of Drought, a poem
2002
5/13
What Mama Said (typed with edits)
2002
5/14
What Mama Said (typed with edits)
2002
5/15
What Mama Said (typed)
2003
5/16
What Mama Said cover
N.D.
5/17
Dis Picking Na My 401K, a poem
June 16, 2003
5/18
What Will Mama Say to the Oga (Fulbright Fellowship Program)
2003
5/19
Rumbles in the Desert (drama) — draft
2005
5/20
Rumbles in the Desert (from digital copy)
August 9, 2003
5/21
Rumbles in the Desert
August 26, 2003
5/22
For Men a poem for Meri Nana-Ama
February 28, 2004
5/23
Guggenheim Fellowship Application
2004
5/24
No Vacancy!
1986
5/25
No Vacancy (typed)
2004
6/1
No Vacancy
2005
6/2
No Vacancy — originals & cover edits
N.D.
6/3
No Vacancy — partial with edits
N.D.
6/4
If Pillow Could (a poem)
2006
6/5
A Time of Reclamation/A Season of Reclamation
May 20, 2008
6/6
Collection of Plays Vol. 2 (Rumbles in the Desert, Omoge: Break Dancer, Ban Empty Barn)
2009
6/7
A Collection of Plays no Volume associated (Cattle Egret Versus Nama/”Crime Patrol Unit,” The Artist’s Homecoming)
N.D.
6/8
A Collection of Plays Vol. 2 (Rumbles In the Destert, Omoge Shakara, Ban Empty Barn)
2009
6/9
A Collection of Plays Vol. 1 (Broken Calabash, Lost in Paradise, She Reigns)
2009
6/10
A Collection of Plays Vol. 3 (Out of Bounds, Ban Empty Barn)
2009
6/11
A Collection of Plays Vol. 2 (Break Dancer & Acada Boys)
2009
6/12
A Collection of Plays Vol. 1 (Rumbles in the Desert, Lost in Paradise)
2009
6/13
They’re Back! (Un)timely Visitors! Sabbatical Proposal 1 of 2
2011
6/14
They’re Back! (Un)timely Visitors! Sabbatical Proposal 2 of 2
2011
6/15
What the Woman of Color Said (a play)
N.D
6/16
What the Woman of Color Said (a play)
N.D
6/17
The Break Dancer (109 pgs)
N.D.
6/18
The Break Dancer (111 pgs)
N.D.
6/19
The Break Dancer (version 1) (a play)
N.D.
6/20
The Break Dancer (version 2)
N.D.
6/21
The Break Dancer (manuscript)
N.D.
6/22
I am Married to My Children (manuscript notes)
November 25, 1990
Montclair, NJ
7/1
I am Married to My Children (draft & manuscript notes)
November 25, 1990
Montclair, NJ
7/2
Look What I’ve Got! My Sunny Day! (short story submitted to Becky Clarke
N.D.
7/3
Gender and Race Metaphors of Love in Eugene Redmond Poetry
N.D.
7/4
The Other Side of Desire
N.D.
7/5
Poems on Nature
N.D.
7/6
Yari, Yari, What Will I tell My Children?
N.D.
7/7
Meeting My Mathers, In the Circle of My Fathers
N.D.
7/8
God Writes to Africa
N.D.
7/9
Bilary’s Clone
N.D.
7/10
The ‘X’ I Live With (part of manuscript)
N.D.
7/11
The X I live with (discarded or duplicated pages
N.D.
7/12
Emerging theme notes
N.D.
7/13
Memories Hijacked/ Hijacked Memories
N.D.
7/14
Lost in Paradise
N.D.
7/15
In the Circle of My Mothers
N.D.
7/16
Poetry- post it notes
N.D.
7/17
Post it notes, no provenance
N.D.
7/18
Miscellaneous notes
N.D.
7/19
Miscellaneous notes
N.D.
7/20
Things Left Unsaid (1 of 3)
N.D.
7/21
Things Left Unsaid (2 of 3)
N.D.
7/22
Things Left Unsaid (3 of 3)
N.D.
7/23
Things Left Unsaid (1 of 2) (p. 1–235)
N.D.
8/1
Things Left Unsaid (2 of 2) (p. 236–489)
N.D.
8/2
Things Left Unsaid (partial)
N.D.
8/3
Things Left Unsaid (1 of 3)
N.D.
8/4
Things Left Unsaid (2 of 3)
N.D.
8/5
Things Left Unsaid (3 of 3)
N.D.
8/6
What I Cannot Tell My Father — notes
N.D.
8/7
What I Cannot Tell My Father — notes
N.D.
8/8
What I Cannot Tell My Father — notes
N.D.
8/9
What I Cannot Tell My Father (p. 1–155)
February 8, 1998
8/10
What I Cannot Tell My Father (p. 1–88)
March 17, 1998
8/11
What I Cannot Tell My Father (p. 2–150) (1 of 2)
N.D.
8/12
What I Cannot Tell My Father (p. 151–176) (2 of 2)
N.D.
9/1
What I Cannot Tell My Father (p. 1–154)
2005
9/2
What I Cannot Tell My Father (p. 2–426)
N.D.
9/3
What I Cannot Tell My Father (edits) (1 of 5)
N.D.
9/4
What I Cannot Tell My Father (edits) (2 of 5)
N.D.
9/5
What I Cannot Tell My Father (edits) (3 of 5)
N.D.
9/6
What I Cannot Tell My Father (edits) (4 of 5)
N.D.
9/7
What I Cannot Tell My Father (edits) (5 of 5)
N.D.
9/8
What I Cannot Tell My Father (synopsis)
N.D.
9/9
What I Cannot Tell My Father (p. 284-532) bound
N.D.
9/10
What I Cannot Tell My Father (p. 1–271) bound
2004
10/1
What I Cannot Tell My Father (p. 1–370) bound
2005
10/2
What I Cannot Tell My Father (p. 1–271) bound (1 of 2)
2004
10/3
What I Cannot Tell My Father (p. 272–532) bound (2 of 2)
2004
10/4 (binder 1)
Mali’s Story: What I Cannot Tell My Father — manuscript
N.D.
10/5 (binder 2)
Mali’s Story: What I Cannot Tell My Father — manuscript
N.D.
26/1
Quest for Identity: Xala and So Long a Letter (typed draft with notes)
1984
26/2
Reign of Wazobia
1988
26/3
Visions of Myth (proof copy with edits)
1991
26/4
Brecht in Nigerian Drama: Femi Osofisan’s Use of Techniques of Epic Theatre
1991
26/5
Fighting the Good Fight: Two Play Anthologies by Women in Feminist Collections
1995
26/6
Dreams Deferred, Dead or Alive (annotated copy)
1995
26/7
Shifting Paradigms of Profit and Loss in Flora Nwapa’s Fiction
1998
26/8
Who Can Silence the Drums? Delta Women Speak! Ford Foundation Research Proposal
1999
26/9
Who Can Silence the Drums? Delta Women Speak! Ford Foundation Report
2001
26/10
Report on the Speaker and Specialist Program of US State Department in India
2007
26/11
Cattle Egret Versus Nama: Crime Patrol Unit
N.D.
26/12
Tell it to Women: An Epic Drama for Women (with handwritten notes)
N.D.
26/13
Speaking Without Tongue: Silence and Self Search in Armah’s ‘the Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born’ (written manuscript)
N.D.
26/14
The Community as Shadow of the Individual in Achebe’s Novels
N.D.
26/15
The Community as Shadow of the Individual in Achebe’s Novels (with handwritten edits)
N.D.
26/16
Drum Voices (editorial notes)
N.D.
26/17
Drumbeats in Black Women’s Drama (with handwritten edits)
N.D.
26/18
Untitled Handwritten Manuscript with Notes
N.D.
26/19
Miscellaneous Notes
N.D.
29/8
The Runaway’s Daughter: A Diary from New Daughters of Africa Ed. By Margaret Busby
2019
Conferences
11/1
Heroism Among the West Niger Igbo
1986
11/2
The Unanswered Question
May 6–8, 1987
11/3
Beyond the Nobel: Adolescence, Development and African Literature
May 2–7, 1988
11/4
Coming of Age by Ana: Nation-Building and the Tribe of Writers in Search of Homestead
November 10–13, 1988
Benue Makurdi
11/5
Lecture: Shifting Concepts of Heroism
October 31, 1991
Toronto, Canada
11/6
Examining the Issue of Self-Government Ace
May 12, 1992
Montclair State
11/7
Sheroism: Bridges Across Land and Sea
May 30, 1992
John Jay College
11/8
The Essence of Diversity
January 13, 1995
McPhee Theatre
11/9
Black Theatre festival/conference
1993–1995
11/10
Who Can Silence the Drums: Black Creativity and the State of Race
April 10–12, 1997
Morgan State University
11/11
Drumbeats in Black Women’s Drama
April 12 1997
11/12
This Time Tomorrow: Where Will You Be Anioma (Woman)?
May 24, 1997
Anioma National Conferences
11/13
Lost Abroad: What Will I Tell My Mother?
August 23, 1997
Anioma Association LA, California
11/14
Lost Generation: Nigerians Abroad Posterity
September 27, 1997
Nigerian Association Houston, TX
11/15
Disconnections: Post Colonial States of Exile and Alienation in Caribbean Women’s Drama
April 12, 1999
University of Houston
11/16
Drumbeats in Black Women’s Drama
August 3–6, 1999
Winston Salem State University
11/17
Recalling Mother-Tongues: Dialogues with My People
January 11–17, 2000
Against All Odds
11/18
Writing in a Post-Colonial State
April 4–5, 2001
Augustana College
11/19
Hear Us Too! Niger Delta Rural Women and the Multi National Oil Companies
February 19, 2002
Salem College, Winston Salem, North Carolina
11/20
Buried in the Rubble: The Missing Face in African Literature
April 5, 2002
University of San Diego
11/21
Buried in the Rubble (Version 3 & 4)
April 5, 2002
11/22
Buried in the Rubble
April 5, 2002
28th Annual African Literature Association
11/23
Sojourner Speaks to the Global Village
April 13, 2002
SIRAS Conference
11/24
This Business of Mothering
June 22, 2002
Award Ceremony for the Women of Valor Atlanta, GA
11/25
(Trans)forming Women Through Performance
April 5, 2003
Indiana University
11/26
Where I Enter the Discourse on African Literature
May 2004
11/27
Global (In)Justice?: Look Who’s Talking: Dramatic Interventions
October 14, 2004
November 16, 2005
November 24, 2005
11/28
Lecture: When Life Attacks
October 20-22, 2004
Saint Lawrence University
11/29
A Gift of the Heart: My Friend, Thelma
December 28, 2004
Bellagio Hotel, Las Vegas
11/30
The Color of My Writing
February 21, 2005
Lake Forest University
11/31
Dissing Acts? Staging Exile/Alienation in Black Women’s Drama
October 13, 2005
University of Houston
11/32
Miami Book Fair
2005
12/1
Check Me Out: I’m A Dropout, I’m Hip/Cool, and What About It? Youths Poling Faces of American and the World
April 25, 2006
Pace University
12/2
Acada Blues: Strategies for Academic Women Who Do Too Much
October 27–28, 2006
University of Houston
12/3
New Riot
October 2006
12/4
Riot
October 28, 2006
Santa Clara University
12/5
Lecture Notes
2007
Pace University
12/6
India Trip
2007
12/7
UW:EC Black History Month
February 4, 2008
University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire
12/8
Award Speech
July 18, 2008 10th Anniversary of the Harlem Book Fair
12/9
Folon Nichols Award: Acceptance Speech
April 17, 2009
ALA Conference
University of Vermont
12/10
I Write To Kill Silence
November 12, 2009
2009 Tess International Conference Edmonton, Canada
12/11
If You Want Justice, You Must Work For Truth: Folon Nichols Award Address in Journal of African Literature Association (JALA)
2009
12/12
Staging the Invisible
April 29, 2010
Englishfest Presentation
Eau Claire, WI
12/13
Writing Human Rights: A Playwrights Perception
November 11, 2011
Central Michigan University
12/14
Erupting Silences
November 14, 2011
Villanova University
12/15
If You Want Justice, You Must Work First for Truth: Folon Nichols Award in Literature, The Visual Arts and Globalization in Africa and Its Diaspora
2011
12/16
Readings—Riot
N.D.
12/17
Readings—Rumble In the Desert
N.D.
12/18
Readings—Shakara
N.D.
12/19
Readings—The Desert Encroaches
N.D.
12/20
Readings—The Moon is My Witness
N.D.
12/21
Readings—Then She Said It
N.D.
12/22
Speaking Notes
N.D.
12/23
Old Wines Are Tasty
N.D.
Houston University
12/24
Misc conference/presentation materials
N.D.
12/25
Presentations, bound copy
N.D.
Video Productions
13/1
The Neighbors We Know Not Yet
1991–1992
13/2
WAZOBIA!
1996
Eau Claire
13/3
Breaking Silences: Niger Delta (Rural Women Speak to the Global Village)
1998
13/4
Nigeria’s Image Abroad; Nigerian youths and the Question of National Identity proposal
1999
13/5
African Drama Film Classic/Studios
1999
13/6
A Proposal: For Action to Eliminate Violence Against Women
1999
13/7
President Ibrahim Babangida’s Legacy to Niger for Yesterday and Tomorrow
2004
13/8
For Today and Tomorrow: President Ibrahim Babangida’s Legacy to Nigeria
2004–2005
13/9
A Documentary Biography Film/Video/DVD featuring Governor James Ibori: A Frontline New Breed of African/Nigerian Leadership
2005
13/10
His Legacy, His Legend: An International Documentary Film featuring President Obasanjo-Bello
2006–2007
13/11
Footprints of a Leader: The Life and Legacy of Dim Ojukwu
2007
13/12
Amerioma: (Re_claiming American Cairo City for Anioma
August 4, 2009
13/13
Lest We Forget: The Unsung Icon/Leader Dr. (Chief) Edwin Clark (1925-)
2010–2011
13/14
Miscellaneous Production Info
N.D.
13/15
Proposal- Neighborhood Teens: Telling & Writing Together
2000
26/20
National Black Arts Festival
1990
26/21
Oduor of Silence: The Invisible Portrait of Black Diaspora in African Literature
1990
National Black Arts Festival
26/22
Creativity: A Festival of Ideas
1991
Montclair, NJ
26/23
National Black Theatre Festival
1991–1993
26/24
International Women Playwrights Conference Papers
2000
Athens, Greece
26/25
When Life Attacks Presentation
2004
Hamline University,
African American History Symposium
26/26
Fat in My Eyes: Egg Fried in the Dust Reading
April 4, 2004
26/27
Version of When Life Attacks Presentation
2004
St. Lawrence University
26/28
Global (In)Justice? Look Who’s Talking!
October 14, 2004
November 16, 2004
26/29
Abridged Reading of Then She Said It
February 23, 2005
26/30
The Color of My Writing Presentation w/notes
February 23-24, 2005
Black History Month Lake Forest College
26/31
Reading of Shakara for 7th Annual African Nite
April 9, 2005
26/32
Untitled Keynote Address
2005
26/33
Dissing Acts? Staging Exile/Alienation in Black Women’s Drama
October 13, 2005
SMLA Conference Houston University October
26/34
India Trip Documents
2007
26/35
UW-Stout Presentation Papers
October 2007
26/36
Gender Complex: Insurgency/Dissidence and the Female Iconoclast in a Post-Colonial World
November 11, 2004
Pace University
26/37
Black History Month Presentation
February 4, 2008
26/38
Presentation Notes for the International Center
February 27, 2008
Delhi, India
26/39
Fonlon-Nichols Award Acceptance Speech Draft w/Notes
April 17, 2009
ALA Conference
26/40
Chinua Achebe Colloquium
2014
26/41
Untitled Presentation and Shakara Excerpt w/Notes
N.D.
26/42
Riot Excerpts for Untitled Presentation
N.D.
26/43
International Women’s Playwrights Conference Papers
N.D.
27/1
Thoughts on Ekwensi’s Visit
1989
27/2 (binder)
(Dis)Connections: Post-Colonial Stages of Exile and Alienation in Caribbean Women’s Drama
April 12, 1999
Langston Hughes Lecture Series Houston University
27/3
Check Me Out I’m a Dropout, I'm Cool, and What About It? Presentation Notes
2006
27/4
heck Me Out I’m a Dropout, I'm Cool, I’m Hip, and What About It?
April 4, 2006
Pace University
27/5
Dissing Acts? Staging Exile/Alienation in Black Literature/Drama
February 26, 2007
Jodhpur Narayan Vas University
27/6
Drumbeats in Black Women’s Writings w/Notes
February 2007
American Center at Bombay University Mumbai, India
27/7
Untitled Santa Clara University presentation handwritten manuscript
October 28, 2008
Sub-series 2: Correspondence
Dates: 1986-2013
Extent: 1.0 linear foot (1 record center carton)
Container (Box/Folder)
Contents
Dates
14/1
Correspondence
1986–1989
14/2
Correspondence
1990
14/3
Correspondence
1991
14/4
Correspondence
1992
14/5
Correspondence
1993
14/6
Correspondence
1994
14/7
Correspondence
1995
14/8
Correspondence
1996
14/9
Correspondence
1997
14/10
Correspondence
1998
14/11
Correspondence
1999
14/12
Correspondence — Ford Foundation
1999
14/13
Correspondence
2000
14/14
Correspondence — Ford Foundation
2000
14/15
African Heritage Press Correspondence
2000
14/16
Correspondence
2001
14/17
Correspondence — Ford Foundation Then She Said It
2001
14/18
Correspondence - Ford Foundation Who Can Silence the Drums
2001
14/19
The Missing Face play correspondence
2001
14/20
Correspondence
2002 January-March
14/21
Correspondence
2002 April-December
14/22
Correspondence — Ford Foundation Then She Said It
2002
14/23
Correspondence
2003
14/24
Correspondence
2004
14/25
Correspondence
2005
14/26
Correspondence
2006
14/27
Correspondence
2007
14/28
India Correspondence
2007
14/29
Correspondence
2008
14/30
Correspondence
2009
14/31
Correspondence
2010
14/32
Correspondence
2012
14/33
Correspondence
2013
14/34
Correspondence
N.D.
27/8
Correspondence
1988
27/9
Correspondence
1989
27/10
Correspondence
1990
27/11
Correspondence
1991
27/12
Correspondence
1992
27/13
Correspondence
1993
27/14
Correspondence
1997
27/15
India Correspondence
2007
27/16
Correspondence
N.D.
Sub-series 3: Subject Files
Dates: 1980–2014
Extent: 1.5 linear feet (1 flat box, 1 poster box)
Container (Box/Folder)
Contents
Dates
15/1
Subject Files
1980–1984
15/2
Subject Files
1985–1989
15/3
Subject Files
1990–1994
15/4
Subject Files
1995–1999
15/5
Subject Files
2000–2004
15/6
Subject Files
2005–2009
15/7
Subject Files
2010–2014
15/8
Subject Files
N.D.
15/9
Bound Newspapers
1984–1988
16/1
“Events at the University of Buffalo” poster
October 1988
16/2
“Detroit Museum of African American History” poster
April 1997
27/17
Subject Files
1984–1986
27/18
Subject Files
1987–1990
27/19
Subject Files
1991–1993
27/20
Subject Files: President Ibrahim Babangida Documentary Papers 2005
2005
27/21
Subject Files: Miscellaneous Newspapers
Date Varies
27/22
Subject Files: Academic and Professional Awards
N.D.
27/23
Subject Files: (Re)Claiming American Cairo City for Naija Video Project Papers
N.D.
27/24
Subject Files
N.D.
Sub-series 4: Biographical Materials
Dates: 1988–2010
Extent: 2.0 linear feet (2 record center cartons)
Container (Box/Folder)
Contents
Dates
17/1
Biography info
Varies
17/2
Autobiographical content bound by Onwueme
Circa 1988
17/3
Autobiographical content bound by Onwueme
Varies
17/4
Autobiographical content bound by Onwueme
Varies
17/5
Autobiographical content bound by Onwueme
Varies
17/6
Autobiographical content bound by Onwueme
Varies
17/7
Autobiographical content bound by Onwueme
Varies
17/8
Autobiographical content bound by Onwueme
Varies
17/9
Autobiographical content bound by Onwueme
Varies
17/10
UWEC application
June 28, 1993
17/11
Letters of Recommendation
Varies
17/12
Nigeria: A Handy Guide to the Federal Republic
1991
17/13
Vita/Resume
1997
17/14
Vita/Resume
2000
17/15
Vita/Resume
2002
17/16
Vita/Resume
2004
17/17
Vita/Resume
2006
17/18
Vita/Resume
2010
17/19
Family information
Varies
18/1
Interview with Gbemisola Adeoti
April 2001
18/2
Interview with Laura Andrews
May 2001
18/3
Interview with Juluette Bartlett
2002
18/4
Interview with Becky Becker
Spring 2001
18/5
Interview with Fashamisha Patricia Brown
November 14, 2001
18/6
Interview with Sonja Darlington and Henry Hane
December 2001
18/7
Interview with Maureen Eke
March 10, 2002
18/8
Interview with Henry Hane
July 13, 2005
18/9
Interview with Oluwafunminiyi Mabawonku
June 15, 2008
18/10
Interview with Joseph McLaren
November 9, 2006
18/11
Interview with Thérèse Migraine-George
July 2005
18/12
Interview with Inibong Uko
June 6–8, 2003
18/13
Interview: “Myth, Legend and Ritual” in International Women Playwrights
1993
18/14
Interview: “The Woman Playwright: Identity and Transformation” in International Women Playwrights
1993
18/15
Miscellaneous biographical information
N.D.
28/1
Letters of Recommendation
N.D.
28/2
Curriculum Vitae
N.D.
28/3
Yearly Accomplishments, Chronological Biographical and Career Achievement Information
1995–2003
28/4 (bound book)
Autobiographical Content Bound by Onwueme
N.D.
28/5
Autobiographical Content Bound by Onwueme
N.D.
Sub-series 5: Photographs
Dates: 1992–2010
Extent: 1.0 linear foot (1 record center carton)
Container (Box/Folder)
Contents
Dates
18/16
Photos of Onwueme
N.D.
18/17
Individual negatives
N.D.
18/18
African Literature Association
2002
18/19
Wazobia! A Play, Eau Claire
N.D.
18/20
Wazobia! Film
2000
18/21
Folon Nichols Award
April 17, 2009
18/22
The Missing Face
2006
18/23
International Conference- Osonye Tess Onwueme
November 2009
18/24
Unknown book signing
1992?
18/25
International Conference on Black Women
1992
18/26
Wazobia! Photo Album
2000
19/1
Photo Album: Athens, Greece 1998; NWACT (Women of Valor Award) 2002; NWAG; Ford Foundation 2000; London
Varies
19/2
Photo Album
N.D.
19/3
Photo Album - Headshots
N.D.
19/4
Photo Album - Early Onwueme & an unidentified play
N.D.
28/6
Dr. Martin Luther King Distinguished Writers Prize
1989
28/7
Legacies Production Negatives
1990
28/8
A Scent of Onions Production
1990
28/9
New York City Missing Face Production
May 2001
28/10
Unidentified Production Photographs
2001
28/11
San Diego Conference
2002
28/12
Celebrity Writers Photo Album
2002
28/13
Productions of Onwueme’s Plays Photo
Varies
28/14 (binder)
Celebrity Photo Album (professional meetings, contacts, famous writers, and scholars)
Varies
Personal Photographs
28/15
Photos of Onwueme
N.D.
28/16
Photos at Onwueme’s Freedom Drive Home
2002
28/17
Trip to Munich, Germany Photographs
January 2006
28/18
Trip to Tegernsee, the Alps, and Munich
January 2006
28/19
Family Photographs
Varies
28/20
Miscellaneous
N.D.
Sub-series 6: Ephemera
Dates: 1980–2010
Extent: 1.0 linear foot (1 record center carton) **box 22 not calculated**
Container (Box/Folder)
Contents
Dates
20/1
Posters/Programs
1980s
20/2
Posters/Programs
1990
20/3
Posters/Programs
1991
20/4
Posters/Programs
1992
20/5
Posters/Programs
1993
20/6
Posters/Programs
1994
20/7
Posters/Programs
1995
20/8
Posters/Programs
1997
20/9
Posters/Programs
1998
20/10
Five Hundred Leaders of Influence Bookmark
1999
20/11
Posters/Programs
2001
20/12
Posters/Programs
2002
20/13
Posters/Programs
2003
20/14
Posters/Programs
2005
20/15
Posters/Programs
2006
20/16
Posters/Programs
2008
20/17
Posters/Programs
2009
20/18
Posters/Programs
2010
20/19
Posters/Programs
N.D.
20/20
Oversize Posters
Varies
Objects
Box
Id number
Description
Dates
20
AS598.020.001
Crown (orange coral beads)
N.D.
21
AS598.021.001
Shoulder piece (orange coral beads)
N.D.
21
AS598.021.002
15 Year Anniversary pin
2009
21
AS598.021.003
Sash: World Theatre Day observation (India)
March 27, 2014
21
AS598.021.004
Award of outstanding contributions to the UW System (University of Wisconsin) in particular to Women of Color
1995
21
AS598.021.005
The Ife Book Fair: distinguished Author’s Award
February 2, 1988
22
AS598.022.001
Coral bead crown from Wazobia
N.D.
22
AS598.022.002
Coral bead crown from Wazobia
N.D.
22
AS598.022.003
Coral bead crown from Wazobia
N.D.
22
AS598.022.004
Coral bead blouse from Wazobia
N.D.
29
Eagle Award for Outstanding Achievement and as a Model of Nigerian Excellence—The Nigerian Eagles Society
July 1993
29
Achievers Award: Nigerian Achiever of the Year in Literature—Nigerian Achievement Awards, Network Nigeria Inc.
1994
29
20th Century Achievement Award—American Biographical Institute
1999
Sub-series 7: Media
Dates: 1989–2009
Extent: 1.0 linear foot (1 record center carton)
Container (Box/Folder)
Title
Duration
Producer
Date
23
Wazobia!
89:08
Drama Village Productions
2002
23
Wazobia!
75:39
Drama Village Productions
2006
23
Wazobia!
87:51
Drama Village Productions
2002
23
The Reign of Wazobia
108:38
UWEC
1994
23
The Reign of Wazobia
96:00
Vassar College
1993
23
The Broken Calabash
90:00
Wayne State University
February 1998
23
Then She Said It
85:58
Nigerian Actors’ Guild
2001
23
Legacy
103:30
Unknown
Unknown
23
Legacy
131:11
Imo State University
1989
23
Mosaic: From the Life and Works of Tess Onwueme
21:22
Laura Ude/UWEC
2009
23
Connecting with the World: The Tess Onwueme Conference
6:34
UWEC
2009
23
International Conference: Tess Onwueme (in 12 parts)
774:55
Abuja State University
November 11–14, 2009
23
Fonlon Nichols Prize Ceremony
66:17
African Literature Association
April 17, 2009
23
Shakara: Dance Hall Queen
57:15
BBC
2004
23
Shakara: Dance Hall Queen
86:36
Abu Studio Theatre
Unknown
23
Interview with Tess Onwueme
15:58
BBC
Unknown
23
Interview with Tess Onwueme
1:39
WEAU 13 News
October 23, 1993
23
African Experience Worldwide (including interview with Tess Onwueme)
93:19
WRFG-FM Atlanta
June 22, 2002
23
Riot in Heaven (portion read by Dr. Onwueme)
27:29
Tess Onwueme
February 16, 1993
Series 2: Administrative Materials
Materials that document Tess Osonye Onwueme’s career as a professor of global letters at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
Sub-series 1: Correspondence
Dates: 1993–1999
Extent: .5 linear foot (1/2 record center carton)
Container (Box/Folder)
Contents
Dates
24/1
Correspondence
1993
24/2
Correspondence
1994
24/3
Correspondence
1995
24/4
Correspondence
1996
24/5
Correspondence
1997
24/6
Correspondence
1998
24/7
Correspondence
1999
24/8
Correspondence
N.D.
29/2
Correspondence
Varies
Sub-series 2: Subject Files
Dates: 1994–1996
Extent: .5 linear foot (1/2 record center carton)
Container (Box/Folder)
Contents
Dates
15/10
Cultural Diversity Subject Files (oversize)
1995–1996
24/9
Personal Statement
N.D.
24/10
Budgets & Misc. Notes
Varies
24/11
Course Syllabi
Varies
24/12
Cultural Diversity Misc.
Varies
24/13
Cultural Diversity Workshop – Dr. Vivieng NG
1994
24/14
Cultural Diversity Workshop – Dr. William Cook
1995
25/15
Cultural video production proposal
N.D.
24/16
Minorities in Wisconsin: a report from Psychology 491
May 19, 1995
24/17
Femi Ojo-ade
1995
24/18
Newspapers
1994–1995
24/19
Notes
Varies
24/20
Wisconsin Ideas
1994
24/21
Binder: Service, plays, cultural diversity
Varies
24/22
Binder: UWEC Diversity Initiatives
Varies
29/3
Cultural Diversity Subject Files
Varies
29/4
Miscellaneous Course Materials
Varies
Series 3: Works by other authors about Tess Osonye Onwueme’s work
Dates: 1989–2010
Extent: 1.0 linear foot (1 record center carton)
Container (Box/Folder)
Author
Title of Work
Dates
25/1
Nina Adams
BBC On Air
N.D.
25/2
Omofolabo Ajaji
“Who Can Silence Her Drums? An analysis of the plays of Tess Onwueme” in African Theatre Women
2002
25/3
Awam Amkpa
Theatre and Postcolonial Desires
2004
25/4
Dr. Chidi Amuta
“The Nigerian Woman as a Dramatist: The Instance of Tess Onwueme” in Nigerian Female Writers
1989
25/5
Juluette F. Bartlett
Dissertation: Promoting Empowerment For Women: Women Between Modernity and Tradition in the Works of Tess Onwueme
2002
25/6
Kanika Batra
“‘Daughters who Know the Language of Power’ Community, Sexuality, and Postcolonial Development in Tess Onwueme’s Tell It To Women” in Interventions: Journal of Postcolonial Studies
2007
25/7
Sonja Darlington
Women as Power Brokers of the Earth’s Resources: “Tess Onwueme’s Caustic Response to the Environmental Debate”
2008
25/8
Chris Dunton
Make Man Talk True: Nigerian Drama in English since 1970
1990
25/9
Chris Dunton
“Nigeria and the Diaspora, Solidarities and Discords: The Drama of Osonye Tess Onwueme” in Nigeria in Twentieth Century
2002
25/10
Afan Ebeogu
“Feminism and the Mediation of the Mythic in Three Plays by Tess Onwueme” in The Literary Griot
1991
25/11
Maureen N. Eke
Book Proposal: Emerging Perspectives on Tess Onwueme
N.D.
25/12
Maureen N. Eke
Casting Gender and Sexuality in African Women's Writing: Tess Onwueme’s Shakara
N.D.
25/13
Maureen N. Eke
Who Shall Silence the Drums? Another Woman’s War
N.D.
25/14
Mabel Evwierhoma
Female Empowerment and Dramatic Creativity in Nigeria
2002
25/15
Mabel Evwierhoma
Female Empowerment and Dramatic Creativity in Nigeria (copy-signed)
2002
25/16
Patrick E. Idoye
“African Feminism Under Siege” – review essay in Black Scholar
1995
25/17
Jane E. Martin
Thesis- African Womanhood’s in the Works of Four West African Women Playwrights
2000
25/18
DeLinda Marzette
Who Measures the Power of Woman in Spoons and Scales? Women’s Worth in Tess Onwueme’s Tell It To Women
2007
25/19
Thérèse Migraine-George
African Women and Representation: From Performance to Politics
2008
25/20
J.O.J. Agbada-Nwachukwu
“Tess Onwueme: Dramatist in Quest of Change” in World Literature Today
1992
25/21
Olu Obafemi
“Towards Feminist Aesthetics Drama: The Plays of Tess Onwueme” in African Literature Today
1994
25/22
Regina Ode
“Women, Their Own Worst Enemies: A Comparative Study of Tess Onwueme’s Go Tell It To Women and The Reign of Wazobia” in Creative Artist: A Journal of Theatre and Media Studies
2010
25/23
Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi
Tess Akaeke Onwueme: Tell It To Women
N.D.
25/24
Nilgun A. Okur
“Ritual, Tradition and Reconstruction in Contemporary Nigerian Drama: Femi Osofisan and Tess Akaeke Onwueme a Dramatic Analysis in Afrocentricity”
1998
25/25
Mabel Itohanosa Erioyunvwen Tobrise
Thesis: Ideology, Power and Powerlessness in Female Creativity: A Case Study of Tess Onwueme’s Plays
1995
25/26
Mabel Itohanosa Erioyunvwen Tobrise
Feminist Theatre as an Agent of Sustainable Development: Tess Onwueme’s The Reign of Wazobia and Go Tell It To Women Investigated
1995
25/27
Mabel Itohanosa Erioyunvwen Tobrise
The Female Thrust In The Plays of Tess Onwueme: A Reader Response Analysis
1992
25/28
Mabel Itohanosa Erioyunvwen Tobrise
Female Visibility and Dominance in Ola Rotimis Drama: Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again and Hopes of the Living Dead as Textual Evidences
N.D.
25/29
Mabel Itohanosa Erioyunvwen Tobrise
The Image of the Modern Woman in Tess Onwueme’s Go Tell It To Women
N.D.
25/30
Mabel Itohanosa Erioyunvwen Tobrise
Power, Powerless and Ideology in Female Creativity: Anowa and The Reign of Wazobia as Paradigms
1990
25/31
Iniobong I. Uko
Gender and Identity in the Works of Tess Onwueme
2004
25/32
Iniobong I. Uko
Modern African Literature In the Twenty-First Century: Challenges for the Critics
N.D.
25/33
Marie Umeh
Black Orientalism vs. Negritude: Teaching Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s Wonders of the African World and Osonye Tess Onwueme’s The Missing Face
2002
25/34
Chris Waters
Critique on Onwueme’s Works
2003
25/35
Varies
Bound compilation on Onwueme’s Writing
N.D.
25/36
Varies
Correspondence relating to works written on Onwueme
Varies
25/37
Varies
Misc. Reviews
Varies
29/5
Helen Chukwuma
Nigerian Female Authors, 1970 to Present in Contemporary Nigerian Literature
1987
29/6
Daniela Gioseffi
Forward to the Plays of Tess Onwueme
1991
29/7
Claudia Willis
Legacies Book Review
N.D.