This book aims to offer a broad history of theatre in Africa. The roots of African theatre are ancient and complex and lie in areas of community festival, seaso

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In this collection of essays written from different critical perspectives, African playwrights demonstrate through their art that they are not only witnesses, b

This study, the first book-length treatment of its subject, draws on a large base of elusive material and on extensive field research. It is the result of the a

The contributions to this volume in the African Theatre series make clear that the role of women in the theatre across the continent has changed as control is m