Who We Are
ỤTỤTỤ Books was founded in Anambra, Nigeria, in 2022, solely to publish, promote, and sell authentic African plays.
Every day, on the streets of Africa, people produce play scripts without ever knowing they do. In Onitsha Main Market, the traders are birthing wild dialogues. Lagosians and a conductor in the bus, on the Lagos highway, are
producing play scripts.
There are important stories and histories that swim in the dialogues of traders and their customers in African local markets, and even at the gathering of African extended families. We want to publish plays that are resistant to conventions. Support our journey.
Our Mission
To uphold the genre, play, that is almost sidelined in the Africa literary sphere. We believe that African plays deserve to be read locally and globally.
Our Core Aim
To publish plays that challenge boundary; plays that don’t conform to
conventions; plays that are authentically African.
Our Vision
To redefine the African literary landscape by bringing authentic and boundary-pushing African plays to a global audience.
Our Inaugural Title
The Brigadiers Of A Mad Tribe
By Abuchi Modilim
It is a completely crazy world that Abuchi Modilim throws up in his play The Brigadiers of a Mad Tribe. Like in the plays of the iconic Swedish playwright August Strindberg where anything can happen, strange things occur when the shady Phoenix Black Science Organization of Britain solicits the witches and wizards of Africa toward the building of a fabled technology described as a brain cloud facility to operate on the mystical power of the black world. The play intervolves motifs of a maltreated widow, ill-assorted daughters and personages of the crazy community, alleged saboteurs of the Biafra war, and sundry zanies and crazies until its whodunit end. Call it the first science fiction drama manufactured in Africa, The Brigadiers of a Mad Tribe by Abuchi Modilim is indeed an astonishing theatrical debut.
Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Author of A Play of Ghosts
