Not so many years ago African adaptations of Greek tragedy would have been a most obscure subject for a classicist to write about. But since then, as a result of the everincreasing academic interest in post-colonialism on the one hand, and in the reception of Greek tragedy on the other, a number of discussions have been published, not only by experts in African, and more generally post-colonial literatures, 1 but also by classicists. 2 This article continues their work, focusing in more detail on a narrower, though still large and varied, geographical area: West Africa. Much more work, including work within Africa itself, will be necessary in the future to gain a more complete and nuanced picture. Moreover, I should state clearly that, as a classicist, I have only an incomplete knowledge of African literatures and cultures. Therefore, inevitably, much of what I say can itself only be a starting-point for more. However, I believe that such a start is well worth making, as the plays in question hold considerable interest for classicists.Here is a list, quite possibly incomplete, of relevant plays. There are eight in totalnot a large number in relation to either the total output of West African dramatists or the total number of adaptations of Greek tragedies in Europe or America, but large enough to show that ancient Greek tragedy has caught the imagination of a range of West African writers over the years.