Penina Muhando

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Penina Muhando
Born 1948 (age 65–66)
Tanganyika Territory
Nationality Tanzanian
Alma mater University of Dar es Salaam
Occupation Playwright

Penina Muhando, also known as Penina Mlama (born 1948), is a Tanzanian Kiswahili playwright, and a theorist and practitioner of popular theatre in Tanzania.[1]

Life

Born in Tanzania, Muhando gained a BA in theater arts, a BA in education, and a PhD in language and linguistics from the University of Dar es Salaam. She rose to become professor and head of the Department of Theater Arts at the university.[2]

Works

Plays
  • Hatia (Guilt), 1972
  • Tambueni haki zetu, 1973
  • Heshima yangu, 1974
  • Pambo (Decoration), 1975
  • Fasihi na sanaa za maonyesho, 1976
  • (with Amandina Lihamba and Ndyanao Balisidya) Harakati za ukombozi (Liberation Struggle), 1982
  • Nguzo mama (Mother Pillar), 1982
  • Abjadi yetu, 1983
  • Lina ubani (Antidote to Rot), 1984
  • Talaki si mke wangu (Woman, I Divorce You)
Other
  • "Creating in the Mother-Tongue: The Challenges to the African Writer Today." Research in African Literatures 21.4 (1990): 5-14
  • Women's participation in Communication for Development: the popular theatre alternative in Africa, 1991

References

  1. ↑ Balisidya, Ndyanao May L., "The Construction of Sex and Gender Roles in Penina Muhando's Works", Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women, vol. 5, no. 1 (Summer 1988), pp. 15-20.
  2. ↑ Ada U. Azodo, "Muhando, Penina", Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing, ed. Jane Eldredge Miller, Routledge, 2001, pp. 226-7.
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