Relations familiales brouillées dans quelques pièces africaines
Dysfunctional Family Relationships in Some African Theater Plays

Summary/Abstract: This article – focusing on five selected plays by contemporary African playwrights, until now sparsely analyzed – offers a hermeneutic study about the crisis of family relationships. After presenting the difficulties encountered by young African playwrights with their link to the use of a single language and the problems of publishing their texts, the study addresses different types of crisis that a family, African or not, is experiencing at the present time: adolescent crisis in “Bintou” by Koffi Kwahulé (Ivory Coast), financial “crisis” in “The Last Envelope” by Pierre Mumbere Mujomba (Democratic Republic of the Congo), family crisis related to incest in “Einsteinnette” by David-Minor Ilunga ( DRC), social crisis in Célestin “Kasongo’s Control Tower” (DRC), couple crisis in À bout de sueurs by Hakim Bah (Guinea), migration crisis in “Passe pas, l’homme!” by Faustin Keoua-Leturmy (Congo).

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