Amandina Lihamba (born 1944) is a Tanzanian academic, actress, playwright and theatre director.
She also founded the girls drama group Tuseme (Let's Speak Out) festival with Penina Muhando in 1998.
Her 1985 doctoral dissertation focussed on "Politics and Theatre in Tanzania after the Arusha Declaration 1967–1984".
[3] There, she describes how after the Arusha Declaration the Tanzanian verse drama ngonjera evolved from a propaganda tool of the ruling party into a subversive and syncretic form.
[4] Apart from plays and children's books, Lihamba also wrote Hawala ya fedha, based on Senegalese film director Ousmane Sembène's The Money-Order.