Nikki Yeboah | The Referendum

Nikki Yeboah | The Referendum
Storyteller/Oral historian
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The date is March 6th, 2057, and an impending climate crisis and the enormous drain on resources it will take for everyone to survive it, has forced the American people to make a decision: should immigrants be allowed to remain or leave? At a moment in American history where lines are being drawn between “us” and “them,” a referendum decides the fate of a Ghanaian immigrant family and their Black-American tenants. As the two families come to terms with what the result of the referendum might mean for them, they come to realize that because of shared histories of trauma, those lines are not so easily drawn for black people in America.

About Nikki Yeboah

Bay-Area based storyteller, Nikki Yeboah, is a Ghanaian-Canadian playwright whose work explores black identity from a global perspective. From South Africa to Brazil, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Nikki is endlessly curious about what it's like to be black in "_____________". Her work is inspired by everyday life, drawing on interviews and observations with black people to craft stories of how we negotiate our culture and identity around the world. Nikki has been honing her skills since 2009, and her work has been shown in venues across the country including; Chicago, Sarasota, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. And, just in case the way this blurb was written didn't give it away, she's also an (emoji with nerd glasses)who works at San José State University.