Meet four of Africa’s dynamic female playwrights

Danai Gurira

When Gurira is not defending Wakanda as Okoye in the “Black Panther” film, she is on stage with her plays.

Her Liberian-set Eclipsed premiered on Broadway marking the “first–ever Broadway play to boast an all-female cast and creative team,” in 2016 and was nominated for a Tony Award.

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She has other plays such as “Familiar,” “The Convert,” and “In the Continuum.”