2013 Rainbow Awards Submission: Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko - WAAFRIKA

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Waafrika by Nick Mwaluko
Paperback: 234 pages
Publisher: UnCUT/VOICES Press (June 25, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3981386329
ISBN-13: 978-3981386325
Amazon: Waafrika

Nick Hadiwa Mwaluko’s play _WAAFRIKA. 1992. Kenya. Two Women Fall in Love_ A global movement to end female genital mutilation, a human rights violation of extreme complexity and tenacity, needs stunning, original art like Nick Mwaluko's WAAFRIKA to open new avenues of understanding. WAAFRIKA, by illuminating the background to the custom in inflexible gender roles and sexual norms, is probably the issue's first lesbian play with a transgender impulse. As Harvard's Tracie Jones attests, "WAAFRIKA will certainly dispel the idea that same-sex relationships are foreign to Africa," and in doing so, it suggests that broader sexualities and identities are possible..