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Item Behind the inscrutable wonder: the dramaturgy of the mask performance in traditional African society(Indiana University Press, 1991-01) Okafor, Chinyere GraceArticle examines the aesthetics of traditional African mask performance.Item From the heart of masculinity: Ogbodo-Uke women's masking(Indiana University Press, 1994-10) Okafor, Chinyere GraceThis 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.Item Militant femininity in Southern African poetry: a discussion of selected poems by Micere Mugo and Gladys Thomas(2009-03-28T04:30:43Z) Okafor, Chinyere GraceThis 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.Item African literature and beauvoirism: The example of selected women's actions and women writers(Syllepse (Paris), 2002) Okafor, Chinyere Grace