Young Vic Theatre, LondonPaapa Essiedu and Black Panther’s Letitia Wright are captivating in Danai Gurira’s story of religious and linguistic colonialismEnglish-speaking missionaries in 19th-century Africa targeted the tongues of the native population in two ways: training them to speak Queen Victoria’s language and take the wafers of the Christian eucharist.These are the aims of Chilford, the central character in the American-Zimbabwean dramatist Danai Gurira’s 2012 play The Convert, which begins in 1895 in Southern Africa Mashonaland, soon be renamed Southern Rhodesia, then later Zimbabwe. Continue reading…
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