What does the name Eisa mean?
Eisa Davis: My mom thought it meant little star. But, it turns that my name phonetically is very common in Arabic, Hindi, and Japanese, so there are different meanings for my name. In Swahili it means blessed one, and in Japanese it means cup of tea. The particular spelling of my name comes from the spelling of the daughter of a friend of my mom. Is civil rights and political activist icon Angela Davis really your aunt? Eisa Davis: (Laughing) As far as I know, I am indeed the niece of Angela Davis. I have known her all my life. How did Angela’s Mixtape come about? Eisa Davis: As a playwright you don’t always know what you need to write. Sometimes, there is story begging to come out that you must write in a fictional format, but Angela’s Mixtape was different. I thought it would be fun to replicate the type of plays I put on with my cousins and neighborhood playmates when I was a child. I also wanted to develop a form that was different than anything I had worked in before. I wanted to
