"The Female Man" African
Drama by Moses P'Ado 5f & 5m & 3 children ISBN 1-873130-31-7 £4.00 each Royalties £40pp A play about Africa by an African with a message for the West. The author is a
Ugandan barrister who gives us a unique insight into African society today and
shows us how women are still treated as
second-class citizens with second-class expectations. The story tells of a
stepmother who mistreats her stepdaughter viciously, resorts to witchcraft and
even hires a "hit man" to try and get rid of her but the plan
goes terribly wrong and in the end the end the stepdaughter succeeds against
all the odds and becomes a successful architect.