Tess Onwueme in Then She Said It! once again addresses social issues that concern the people, in particular women, of her native Nigeria. The author of approximately fifteen plays, each of which deal with social, political, or environmental concerns, Onwueme focuses on the problem of multinational oil companies, government corruption, and tyrannical cultural practices that subordinate and mistreat women, especially rural women in the Niger River Delta area of Nigeria. In Then She Said!, Onwueme tackles multinational oil companies such as Shell, Chevron, and Mobil to highlight the political corruption, environmental devastation and deprivation, and the debilitating illness that result from air that has been fouled by the flaring of natural gas, by water and fish contaminated by oil spills, and by poverty that affects the ability to provide food.