http://hdl.handle.net/10057/1222 Collection of research and creative publications of Dr. Chinyere Grace Okafor http://soar.wichita.edu:8080/dspace/retrieve/3427 http://hdl.handle.net/10057/1222 Search the Channel s http://soar.wichita.edu:8080/dspace/simple-search http://hdl.handle.net/10057/1973 title: The new toyi toyi: a play authors: Okafor, Chinyere Grace <br>description: Full text of this play is not available due to copyright restrictions. <br> http://hdl.handle.net/10057/1963 title: Behind the inscrutable wonder: the dramaturgy of the mask performance in traditional African society authors: Okafor, Chinyere Grace <br>abstract: Article examines the aesthetics of traditional African mask performance. <br> http://hdl.handle.net/10057/1962 title: From the heart of masculinity: Ogbodo-Uke women's masking authors: Okafor, Chinyere Grace <br>abstract: This paper examines the origins and performance of Ogbodo-Uke mask by women of Aba community of Abakiliki. Author shows that masking classified originaly as a male affair, is organized, produced, and performed by women now, and this is an expression of independence and gender cooperation. <br> http://hdl.handle.net/10057/1958 title: Militant femininity in Southern African poetry: a discussion of selected poems by Micere Mugo and Gladys Thomas authors: Okafor, Chinyere Grace <br>abstract: This paper is based on selected poems by Micere Mugo and Gladys Thomas that were written during the apartheid period but were unavailable for critical evaluation because of apartheid circumstances. Focusing on the exigencies of the period, it discusses how context helped to emphasize the militant disposition of the female characters. It analyzes their contribution in the domestic, public, and in-between spheres as well as their visioning of contemporary Southern African and global calamities, showing intersections shaped by gender, class, and postcoloniality in their personalities. <br>