This drama offers a polemical discourse and dialogue that challenges the contemporary theories of female disempowerment, especially in traditional African societies. The play focuses on the lives of two semi-literate Idu women and their journey to find a "better life".

Using the magic of movement, dance, and drama, and the devices of humor and metaphor, Osonye Tess Onwueme has created a post-feminist epic drama that transcends current feminist theories. An ideologically and politically powerful work, Tell It to Women offers a critical discourse on the western feminist movement from an African traditional perspective, focusing attention on the often silenced issues of intra-gender politics and class inequities.