The work of renowned Ivoirian playwright Koffi Kwahule has been translated into some 15 languages and is performed regularly throughout Europe, Africa, and the Americas. For the first time, Seven Plays of Koffi Kwahule In and Out of Africa makes available to an Anglophone audience some of the best and most representative plays by one of Francophone Africa's most accomplished living playwrights.

Kwahule's theater delves into both the horror of civil war in Africa and the diasporic experience of peoples of African origin living in Europe and the "New World." From the split...