A story of activists in South Saharan Africa using performance as a tactic of resistance and intervention in their struggles for human rights.
List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Act I. Is it a human being or a girl?; Act II. Water rites/rights; Act III. Acts of activism; Epilogue; Appendices: Scripts: Appendix 1. Is it a human being or a girl?; Appendix 2. Water rites; Bibliography; Index.