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by Ntombizodwa Nyoni
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ntombizodwa NyoniPublish date:2025-08-16Pages:120
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Methuen DramaISBN-13:9781350586468ISBN-10:1350586463UPC:9781350586468Book Category:Performing Arts, DramaBook Subcategory:Theater, EuropeanBook Topic:Playwriting, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:7.81 x 5.06 x 0.32 inchesWeight:0.35Product ID:SC0532N2CY

To liberate anyone, you must first overthrow
what you fear within yourself, Nkrumah.
(Beat) It was never going to happen over one
week in Manchester. (Beat) It is your life's
work. (Beat) It is a marathon.

It's 15 October 1945, Manchester. Africa's freedom and future is in the hands of her descendants at the Fifth Pan-African Congress at Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall. Emerging African & Caribbean activists and scholars offer new radical ideas of liberation. However, the organiser, Trinidadian activist George Padmore is unsure who to pass the baton to. Kwame Nkrumah is fuelled by an idealistic desire to become the first Black president of the Gold Coast. Resourceful Jamaican social worker Alma La Badie is grappling with who must be sacrificed for the cause. And what of the revered Amy Ashwood-Garvey how does she ensure the voices of Black women are heard? With generational shifts and gender politics added to a swirling mix of power dynamics, Liberation asks timeless questions about revolution, freedom, and what it means to be an activist.

This edition of Liberation commissioned by the Royal Exchange Theatre was published to coincide with the world premiere produced by Royal Exchange Theatre and Factory International Manchester in June 2025.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Methuen DramaISBN-13:9781350586468ISBN-10:1350586463UPC:9781350586468Book Category:Performing Arts, DramaBook Subcategory:Theater, EuropeanBook Topic:Playwriting, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:7.81 x 5.06 x 0.32 inchesWeight:0.35Product ID:SC0532N2CY
Zodwa Nyoni is a Zimbabwean-born playwright and poet based in Leeds, UK. As winner of the Channel 4 Playwright's Scheme, she was Writer-in-Residence at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2014. Her first full-length play, Boi Boi is Dead, was shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2014/15. Other theatre credits include: Tangled Roots (2014), Nine Lives (2014), Come To Where I'm From (2013), The Market (2013), Di Daakes' Part A Di Night (2013), Home Has Died (2012), Why The Drought Returns (2012), The Night Shift (2011) and The Povo Die Till Freedom Comes (2010). She has been the recipient of the following awards: Award for the Arts 2011 (Leeds Black Awards) and the Young Black and Asian Writers Award (The Big Issue in the North's Short Story Competition 2011).
Publisher: Methuen Drama

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