Professional Moments

1. TESS ONWUEME honored with MAYA ANGELOU and ALICE CHILDRESS, City College, New York, 1991

5 Tess Onwueme with Wole Soyinka & Professors Isidore Okpewho & Ernest Emenyonu in the background, Nov.1999

A PICTURE OF TESS ONWUEME FEATURED WITH WRITERS TERRY MCMILLAN, NAOIMI LONMAGETT, GLORIA HOUSE, DETROIT, 1990

Archival dedication of Tess Onwueme's life work at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 2014.

PBS_UWEC NEWS RELEASE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE ON TESS ONWUEME, NOVEMBER, 2017

PICTURE OF EKWENSI & TESS IN DETROIT, 1990

Picture of Tess Onwueme With Buchi Emecheta, New York City, 2004

TESS ONWUEME & ALICE CHILDRESS, NYC 1990

TESS ONWUEME ARDORNED IN INDIA DURING HER APPOINTMENT BY THE US STATE DEPT TO THE USA STATE DEPT PUBLIC DIPLOMACY SPEAKER PROGRAM FOR NORTH, EAST AND WEST INDIA, 2007

TESS ONWUEME AS SPEAKER_PANELIST WITH MICHAEL THELWELL, Magic Realism 1992_11

TESS ONWUEME FEATURED WITH WRITERS DENNIS BRUTUS, ISHAEL REED, Etc.1992

TESS ONWUEME HONORED BY THE SENATE LEGISLATURE & THE STATE OF, WISCONSIN AS _GLOBAL AMBASSADOR_ FOR THE UW SYSTEM AND THE STATE OF WISCONSIN, Oct 18, 2014

TESS ONWUEME INTERNATIONAL CONF. ABUJA, Nov. 2009; with Professors M. Eke, S. Darlington, GG Darah, Delta Governor Rep. Azuka Osakwe 2009

TESS ONWUEME WITH ACTORS PERFORM @ TESS INT CONF 2009

TESS ONWUEME WITH AVERY BROOKS, MARIE EVANS, EUGENE REDMOND, Magic Realism Conf. Atlanta, 1992_9

TESS ONWUEME WITH BUCHI EMECHETA, OCT. 2004

TESS ONWUEME WITH PROF. EMMANUEL OBIECHINA, 2002

TESS ONWUEME WITH WRITER AMIRI BARAKA, BLACK ARTS FESTIVAL, 1990

TESS ONWUEME at the HARLEM BOOK FAIR Ceremony for the DISTINGUISHED BLACK WRITER & FLORA NWAPA AWARD IN NEW YORK CITY, 2008

TESS ONWUEME at the International Writers & Publishers Seminar in Tanzania with Per Gedin (Swedish Publisher, Forlag), Mary Jay (Director of the African Books Collective, UK), and the Swedish Director of the DAG HAMMARSKJOLD, Olle Nordberg, 1998

TESS ONWUEME with AMA ata AIDOO, BUCHI EMECHETA, WEREWERE LIKING, RASHIDA, ABUBARKAR & BRENDA FLENAGAN (Trinidad writer) at the Yari Yari Conference in New York City 2004

TESS ONWUEME with NAWAL el SADAAWI and BUCHI EMECHETA at the Yari-Yari Pamberi Conf. New York City, 2004

TESS ONWUEME with novelist ISIDORE OKPEWHO, ALA 2002

TESS ONWUEME's PRESS PHOTO FOR THE HARLEM BOOK FAIR DISTINGUISHED BLACK WRITERS_FLORA NWAPA AWARD in New York City, 2008

TESS WITH OLA ROTIMI, FAMOUS NIGERIAN PIONEER DRAMATIST, IN HIS YARD AT IFE, JUNE 2001

TESS WITH SUDANESE WRITERS UNION

Tess Onwueme after receiving the Nigerian Women Association of Georgia Woman of Valor award, 2002.

Tess Onwueme as Guest Writer_Speaker_Performer at York University, Canada, 2009

Tess Onwueme as a USA Writer Delegate to Stokholm, Sweden for the Unesco sponrored Millenium Summit on Culture for the UBUNTU 2000.

Tess Onwueme as featured Writer_Speaker with Terry MacMillan, poet Naomi Lonmaggett, and Gloria House, Detroit, December, 1990

Tess Onwueme at the Sudanese Writer's Union, 2007.

Tess Onwueme at the University of Mumbai

Tess Onwueme in Stockholm, Sweden, 2000.

Tess Onwueme with African World Writers, Ishmael Reed, Eugene Redmond, Askia Mohammed Toure; Black Arts Festival, 1992

Tess Onwueme with African World Writers, Sonia Sanchez, Marie Evans, Haki Madhubuti, Eugene Redmond, Richard Wesley, Askia Mohammed Toure, Black Arts Festival in Atlanta, 1992

Tess Onwueme with African poet Atukwei Okai and African musicologist Kwabena Nketia at Ubuntu UNESCO, Stockholm, Sweden, 2000

Tess Onwueme with Chinweizu and Jamie Onwehekwa, 1999.

Tess Onwueme with Niyi Osundare & Kole Omotosho Nairobi_Kenya following the 21st Century Writers Conference, 1999

Tess Onwueme with Niyi Osundare and Kole Omotosho, Nairobi, Kenya, 1998.

Tess Onwueme with Postcolonial Studies Scholar, Bill Ashcroft, Indian Poet Sukrita Kumar Paul, Calif. 2004

Tess Onwueme with Prof Berth Lindfors & Prof Ernest Emenyonu, following her Keynote Performer outing at the Chinua Achebe Colloquim, Brown Univ. Providence, Rhodes Island, May 4, 2014

Tess Onwueme with Prof. Echeruo and Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, 1999

Tess Onwueme with Sonia Sanchez, Anandale-on-Hudson, NY, Nov. 1999

Tess Onwueme with South African Playwright Zakes Mda in Burlington Vermont, 2009

Tess Onwueme with Swedish Director Olle Nosberg and Publisher Per Gedin, Arusha, Tanzania, 1998.

Tess Onwueme with Wole Soyinka and Abioseh Porter following her Fonlon Nichols Prize in Vermont, April, 2009

Tess Onwueme with Zimbabwe Novelist of Nervous Condition Tsi Tsi Dangarembga, 1999.

Tess Onwueme with audience_students in Bombay_Mumbai University, India, 2007

Tess Onwueme with novelist Paule Marshall, NYC, 2005 copy

Tess Onwueme with professor Enrnest Emenyonu, Professor Emmanuel Obiechinna, Chinweizu, Jamie Onwuchekwa Nov 1999

Tess Onwueme with the African American Stage Director Woodie King, Jr. who directed Onwueme's play, THE MISSING FACE at the New Federal Theatre, New York City, 2001

Tess Onwueme with the International Conference on Black Women Writers of Magic Realism, Jackson, Mississippi, 1992.

Tess Onwueme, Ngugi wa Thiong'o as Keynote Speakers at the Postcolonial Studies Seminar, with Convener_Director John Hawley at the Santa Clara University, 2004.

Tess, Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o, MJL Echemo, Nov 1999

Univ. of Wisconsin System Flyer_News Release Announcing the ARCHIVAL CELEBRATION OF TESS ONWUEME'S LIFE WORK HOUSED IN THE UNIV. OF WISCONSIN ARCHIVES, Oct. 2014 FLYER

Wisconsin State Senate & University of Wisc. Honor Tess Onwueme, Oct 2014.

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tess onwueme dancing with actors at the Archival Dedication of her Life Work by the Univ. of Wisconsin, Oct 18, 2014, and as the State of Wisconsin with the Senate declared a Proclammation in honor of Tess Onwueme

Personal Moments

IFE UNIV STUDENT SENATE + FACULTY SENDOFF, SEPT 1982

TESS ONWUEME EXPECTING HER FIRST CHILD IN ST. PAUL MINNESOTA, 1976

TESS ONWUEME heads out to the USA with her Five Children following the award of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Distinguished Writers Literary Prize in 1989

TESS ONWUEME'S CELEBRATORY MOMENT OF THE ARCHIVAL DEDICATION CELEBRAION OF TESS ONWUEME'S LIFEWORK, Oct. 14, 2014

TESS ONWUEME's PRESS PHOTO DAY AFTER SUCCESSFUL Ph.D DEFENSE, SEPT. 15, 1987

TESS ONWUEME's PRESS PHOTO FOR THE HARLEM BOOK FAIR DISTINGUISHED BLACK WRITERS_FLORA NWAPA AWARD in New York City, 2008

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Tess Onwueme's five children July, 2007

Univ. of Wisconsin System Flyer_News Release Announcing the ARCHIVAL CELEBRATION OF TESS ONWUEME'S LIFE WORK HOUSED IN THE UNIV. OF WISCONSIN ARCHIVES, Oct. 2014 FLYER

tess onwueme dancing with actors at the Archival Dedication of her Life Work by the Univ. of Wisconsin, Oct 18, 2014, and as the State of Wisconsin with the Senate declared a Proclammation in honor of Tess Onwueme copy

Stage Scenes/Performances

Sample Media News & Stage Prod. Scenes Of Onwueme's Drama On The Global Stage:

ARISE, WOMEN-SCENE FROM TESS ONWUEME'S WAZOBIA

Film Version of the scene, Women Arise_ in Onwueme's WAZOBIA shot on location at the Benin City palace of Chief Igbinedion in 2000 ARISE, WOMEN

MIRROR FOR CAMP-Staged-national theatre prod 1987

PBS_UWEC NEWS RELEASE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE ON TESS ONWUEME, NOVEMBER, 2017

TELL IT TO WOMEN- STAGED Columbia University Dag Hammsjkskold Centre, NYC, Dec 1993

Tess Onwueme's A Hen Too Soon actors together

Tess Onwueme's Reigns of Wazobia stage production, showing .Rise Up Women!, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 1994.

Tess Onwueme's SHAKARA on STAGE at the Khatakali International Centre, New Delhi India, Sept. 2010

Tess Onwueme's Tell It To Women stage production, with Scott Hannah drumming, Columbia University, 1993.

Tess Onwueme's The Reigns of Wazobia film adaptation, 2000.

Tess Onwueme's The Reigns of Wazobia film adaptation, showing chiefs and men

Tess Onwueme's The Reigns of Wazobia film adaptation, showing the king, Omu, and queens

Tess Onwueme's The Reigns of Wazobia film adaptation, showing women rising up

Tess Onwueme's The Reigns of Wazobia stage production scene, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 1994.

Tess Onwueme's The Reigns of Wazobia stage production, showing behind-the-scenes direction

Tess Onwueme's Then She Said It! scene

Tess Onwueme's WAZOBIA performed at the Kher Theatre, UWEC, USA, October 1994

Tess Onwueme's play, WAZOBIA, film, 20 2000

UWEC 1994 WAZOBIA PROD. SECENE WOMEN RISE UP 2

WAZOBIA FILM PRODUCTION SCENE, BENIN 2000 ARISE, WOMEN

WAZOBIA Stage Production-FINAL VICTORY SCENE, UWEC PROD OCT 1994

tess onwueme celeb dancing archival. oct 2014

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