Fifteen Playwrights Make African Human Rights Playwriting Prize Long List

 

FIFTEEN PLAYWRIGHTS MAKE AFRICAN HUMAN RIGHTS PLAYWRITING PRIZE LONG LIST

 

Fifteen Playwrights from across Africa have made the African Human Rights Playwriting Prize Longlist.

 

The longlist was selected from more than forty English-language submissions. The selection of the longlist was done by Marcus Ovie Ugboduma. Follow the below link to read his profile. https://ihrafafrica.blogspot.com/2021/11/african-human-rights-playwriting-prize.html.

 

Entries were received from four different countries which include: Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria and Ghana. Submissions were judged based on Theme, Voice and Style, Characterization, Plot, Dialogue, Appropriateness, Props and Costumes, Stage Direction and conformity to contest rules.

 

Find below the complete longlist:

 

1.      AKWU SUNDAY VICTOR – TEGINA: BROKEN INNOCENCE

2.      ARI-AJIAOLANREWAJU - A DOG LIFE

3.      VICTOR OLA-MATTHEW - GUNFIRE AT OUR MARKET

4.      ALEXANDER NDERITU - FREEDOM CORNER

5.      ABUBAKAR TERKIMBI SAIDU - TIED HANDS

6.      CONFIDENCE ODE - THE EGG HATCHED

7.      R. B. PEMBROKE - MEN WHO LIVE BY BREAD

8.      ABUGHDYER MWUESE STEPHANIE - THE PERFECT HUSBAND

9.      CHIGOZIE MBADUGHA - I SHOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH

10.  ONIS SAMPSON - BABEL OF VOICES

11.  ABIGAIL IMOH - BECAUSE HE’S A MAN

12.  CHIDOZIE CHUKWUBUIKE - FORMULA TWO

13.  KWAGHKULE AONDONENGEN JACOB - THE LONERS' STREET

14.  OKWUDIRI FAVOUR - HER LAWFUL CRIME            

15.  CHUKWU PRECIOUS UGOCHUKWU - MY UNCLE'S LOVE -

 

The shortlist will be announced tomorrow, Friday, November 19, 2021.

 

African Human Rights Playwriting Prize is an initiative of the International Human Rights Art Festival (IHRAF), USA aimed at elevating public consciousness and understanding of human rights values through plays in order to guarantee the safeguarding of people's rights in Africa.