Danai Gurira: 4 books

“Soul-searing...*Eclipsed *shines with a compassion that makes us see beyond the suffering to the indomitable humanity of its characters.” Charles Isherwood, New York Times * * “A major achievement...*Eclipsed *is shattering in part because, while the Liberian Civil War finally...

Premiered at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre in 2009, and opened Off-Broadway at The Public Theater in the fall of 2015. Danai Gurira is the recipient of the Whiting Award, is a former Hodder Fellow, and has been commissioned by Yale Rep, Center Theatre Group, Playwrights Horizons, and the Royal...

It’s best to work with the system, and right now – the system is war. 2003, civil war is raging in Liberia. At a rebel army base four young women are doing their best to survive the conditions of the war. Yet sometimes, the greatest threat comes not from the enemy’s guns, but from the...

Western cultural impositions and Ancient African traditions make strange bedfellows. Never sleeping with both eyes shut for fear the other will strike. It’s 1896 in Rhodesia and Jekesai has just been given her new, Catholic name. Chilford, the only black Roman Catholic teacher in the region,...