.Les Blancs prophetically confronts the hope and tragedy of Africa in revolution. Set in a Christian mission in a colony about to explode, no one can evade the consequences of white colonialism and imperatives of black liberation. Tshembe Matoseh, the English educated son of a chief, has returned to bury his father. His teenage brother is an alcoholic and his older brother a priest and traitor to his people. Tshembe must decide how to act while the powerful Spirit of Africa pursues him.
Lorraine Hansberry was born in 1930 in Southside, Chicago. Her first play, A Raisin in the Sun, opened in March 1959 and made history by being the first play written by a female black author to be staged on Broadway and won the New York Critics' Circle Award. Her career was cut short by her death when she was only 34.
