Niger Delta Drama and a List of Niger Delta Dramas from 1950 to 1999 and 2000 till Date

Niger Delta Drama is an issue based drama affecting the people of the Niger Delta. These issues as environmental degradation and abject poverty that have resulted in continued violence in the region. No writer or drama critic can talk about the Niger Delta Drama without an adequate understanding of the history of the Niger Delta region and its inhabitants. This paper looks into the history of the Niger Delta and its people for the aim of gaining better understanding of a Niger Delta Drama and the sources or drivers of conflict in the Niger Delta. It then lists a number of playwrights from 1950 to 1999 and 2000 till date in order to debunk the arguments about the non-existence of Niger Delta dramas before contemporary times. The paper concludes by referring to a Niger Delta drama as an artistic creation that candidly records and exposes the disheartening existential predicament of the Niger Delta people and the methods the aggrieved youths in the region have adopted in the bid to fight against the oppressive powers that have become their succubus.