Nwazuluwa Onuekwuke "Zulu" Sofola (22 June 1935 – 5 September 1995)[1] was the first published female Nigerian playwright and dramatist.

[citation needed] She obtained her MA in Drama (Play writing and Production) from The Catholic University of America in Washington DC in the year 1965.

[6] Her plays "range from historical tragedy to domestic comedy and use both traditional and modern African setting".

[7] She uses "elements of magic, myth and ritual to examine conflicts between traditionalism and modernism in which male supremacy persists.

Sofola's most frequently performed plays are Wedlock of the Gods (1972) and The Sweet Trap (1977),[8] She died in 1995 at the age of 60.