Fatima Dike

Fatima Dike is a South African playwright and theatre director. She became the first Black South African woman to have a play published. Quotes "Our grasp of the past is so unbalanced: black experience has been separated for so long from white that we don’t understand why we each do the things that we do." Dike on the frontier, Mail & Guardian, 23 November 2001. "For me, theatre has always been a platform to achieve liberation and that hasn’t changed in the new South Africa." Dike on the frontier, Mail & Guardian, 23 November 2001. "Our stories unite, educate and shows us how our future would be like depending on the decisions we make." Q&A with author, playwright and theatremaker Fatima Dike, Sunday Times, 2 September 2019. "We need to listen and acknowledge our past in order for us to be able to move on." Q&A with author, playwright and theatremaker Fatima Dike, Sunday Times, 2 September 2019. "There is so much talent in this country that it can make South Africa so rich, but talent needs to be developed." Interview: Five on Friday with THREE'S A CROWD's Fatima Dike, BroadwayWorld, 7 April 2017. External links Category:Playwrights from South Africa Category:1948 births Category:Living people