Imoinda
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IMOINDA or She Who Will Lose Her Name is a 2008 opera and the first libretto to be written by an African-Caribbean woman, Professor Joan Anim-Addo.[1] It is a re-writing of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, first published in 1688.
The play features Oroonoko's lover Imoinda, a young African princess who is doubly enslaved, once by her king into marriage and then sold into the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The work focuses on her experience with the slave masters and the birth of a child who symbolizes the triumphant survival of African-heritage people forcibly transplanted in the Caribbean diaspora. Imoinda is ultimately reunited with Oroonoko.[2]