Author: Olu Obafemi
Publisher: Bayreuth African Studies
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Contemporary Nigerian Theatre
Author: Olu Obafemi
Publisher: Bayreuth African Studies
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher: Bayreuth African Studies
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
African Theatre in Development
Author: Martin Banham
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253335999
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
"A truly worthwhile resource in a growing field of research--the theater and drama of Africa--this volume collects ten essays about theater practice, publications, and productions; in-depth reviews of 17 books; and a new play." --Choice "... a 'must-have' for anybody interested in issues relating to theatre and development in Africa.... a pioneering effort... " --H-Net Reviews Art as a tool, weapon, or shield? This compelling issue and others are explored in this diverse collection of intriguing perspectives on African theatre in development. Also here: strategies in staging, propaganda, and mass education, and a discussion of the playwright Alemseged Tesfai's career in service to Eritrean liberation.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253335999
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
"A truly worthwhile resource in a growing field of research--the theater and drama of Africa--this volume collects ten essays about theater practice, publications, and productions; in-depth reviews of 17 books; and a new play." --Choice "... a 'must-have' for anybody interested in issues relating to theatre and development in Africa.... a pioneering effort... " --H-Net Reviews Art as a tool, weapon, or shield? This compelling issue and others are explored in this diverse collection of intriguing perspectives on African theatre in development. Also here: strategies in staging, propaganda, and mass education, and a discussion of the playwright Alemseged Tesfai's career in service to Eritrean liberation.
A History of Theatre in Africa
Author: Martin Banham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139451499
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
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, seasonal rhythm and religious ritual, as well as in the work of popular entertainers and storytellers. Since the 1950s, in a movement that has paralleled the political emancipation of so much of the continent, there has also grown a theatre that comments back from the colonized world to the world of the colonists and explores its own cultural, political and linguistic identity. A History of Theatre in Africa offers a comprehensive, yet accessible, account of this long and varied chronicle, written by a team of scholars in the field. Chapters include an examination of the concepts of 'history' and 'theatre'; North Africa; Francophone theatre; Anglophone West Africa; East Africa; Southern Africa; Lusophone African theatre; Mauritius and Reunion; and the African diaspora.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139451499
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
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, seasonal rhythm and religious ritual, as well as in the work of popular entertainers and storytellers. Since the 1950s, in a movement that has paralleled the political emancipation of so much of the continent, there has also grown a theatre that comments back from the colonized world to the world of the colonists and explores its own cultural, political and linguistic identity. A History of Theatre in Africa offers a comprehensive, yet accessible, account of this long and varied chronicle, written by a team of scholars in the field. Chapters include an examination of the concepts of 'history' and 'theatre'; North Africa; Francophone theatre; Anglophone West Africa; East Africa; Southern Africa; Lusophone African theatre; Mauritius and Reunion; and the African diaspora.
The Generation of Plays
Author: Karin Barber
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253216175
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Since the 1980s, Yoruba popular theatre has virtually disappeared due to radio, TV and other mass media in Nigeria. This is the personal account of a theatre worker on tour with the Oyin Adejobi Company. Drawing on archives, interviews and transcribed plays, she describes a successful Yoruba drama.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253216175
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Since the 1980s, Yoruba popular theatre has virtually disappeared due to radio, TV and other mass media in Nigeria. This is the personal account of a theatre worker on tour with the Oyin Adejobi Company. Drawing on archives, interviews and transcribed plays, she describes a successful Yoruba drama.
Author:
Publisher: KARTHALA Editions
ISBN: 9782811100506
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher: KARTHALA Editions
ISBN: 9782811100506
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Revolutionary Drama and Theatre of Femi Osofisan
Author: Chima Osakwe
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527521028
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
This book is an extensive and captivating study of the work of Femi Osofisan, one of Nigeria’s most important dramatists and postcolonial playwrights. It explores a variety of his plays to gather together insights on the role of art in social change, and discusses the relationship between literature and politics.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527521028
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
This book is an extensive and captivating study of the work of Femi Osofisan, one of Nigeria’s most important dramatists and postcolonial playwrights. It explores a variety of his plays to gather together insights on the role of art in social change, and discusses the relationship between literature and politics.
Pre-colonial and Post-colonial Drama and Theatre in Africa
Author: Lokangaka Losambe
Publisher: New Africa Books
ISBN: 9781919876061
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
In this collection of essays written from different critical perspectives, African playwrights demonstrate through their art that they are not only witnesses, but also consciences, of their societies.
Publisher: New Africa Books
ISBN: 9781919876061
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
In this collection of essays written from different critical perspectives, African playwrights demonstrate through their art that they are not only witnesses, but also consciences, of their societies.
_DUÑ_DE: CALABAR JOURNAL OF THE HUMANITIES
Author: FACULTY OF ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR, NIGERIA
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365957950
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
ŃDUÑỌDE: CALABAR JOURNAL OF THE HUMANITIES is a peer-reviewed and refereed international journal of the Faculty of Arts, University of Calabar. It is a multidisciplinary Journal published biannually (January and July). It is inviting original research papers focusing on theories, trends, methods and applications that reflect the interdisciplinary perspectives of the human and social sciences. It challenges, provokes, and excites thinking, ideas, debates and discussions on potential topics of contemporary relevance in Archaeology, Anthropology, Communication/Media Studies, Cultural Studies, English Studies, Fine and Applied Arts, History, International Studies, Law, Leisure Studies, Linguistics, Literary Studies, Modern Languages (French, Spanish, German), Philosophy, Pragmatics, Religious Studies, Sociology, Sports, Theatre Arts, Tourism and Translation Studies.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365957950
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
ŃDUÑỌDE: CALABAR JOURNAL OF THE HUMANITIES is a peer-reviewed and refereed international journal of the Faculty of Arts, University of Calabar. It is a multidisciplinary Journal published biannually (January and July). It is inviting original research papers focusing on theories, trends, methods and applications that reflect the interdisciplinary perspectives of the human and social sciences. It challenges, provokes, and excites thinking, ideas, debates and discussions on potential topics of contemporary relevance in Archaeology, Anthropology, Communication/Media Studies, Cultural Studies, English Studies, Fine and Applied Arts, History, International Studies, Law, Leisure Studies, Linguistics, Literary Studies, Modern Languages (French, Spanish, German), Philosophy, Pragmatics, Religious Studies, Sociology, Sports, Theatre Arts, Tourism and Translation Studies.
Long Dreams in Short Chapters
Author: Wumi Raji
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3825818411
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
This book is concerned with, in the main, the whole question of the transformation of the identities of the different peoples of postcolonial Africa. Even so, it is clear that the issues raised would resonate clearly in similar contexts in other parts of the world. Long Dreams in Short Chapters is a remarkable achievement, a brilliant and magisterial remapping of the African text in its literary, cultural, and political dimensions. Author Wumi Raji's globalist and transnational sensitivities make this book an effortless unpacking of the complexities of the African literary process and it is a landmark contribution to African thought.
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3825818411
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
This book is concerned with, in the main, the whole question of the transformation of the identities of the different peoples of postcolonial Africa. Even so, it is clear that the issues raised would resonate clearly in similar contexts in other parts of the world. Long Dreams in Short Chapters is a remarkable achievement, a brilliant and magisterial remapping of the African text in its literary, cultural, and political dimensions. Author Wumi Raji's globalist and transnational sensitivities make this book an effortless unpacking of the complexities of the African literary process and it is a landmark contribution to African thought.
Re-imagining Africa
Author: African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific. Annual Conference
Publisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781590331002
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This book provides a plethora of insights and perspectives that take up and challenge prevailing points of view about today's Africa. The chapters examine a number of different media and topics: from African theatre to poetry, from accounts of personal history to South Africa's language policy and publishing practices. Their unifying theme is a search for tomorrow's cultural trends in an ever-changing Africa.
Publisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781590331002
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This book provides a plethora of insights and perspectives that take up and challenge prevailing points of view about today's Africa. The chapters examine a number of different media and topics: from African theatre to poetry, from accounts of personal history to South Africa's language policy and publishing practices. Their unifying theme is a search for tomorrow's cultural trends in an ever-changing Africa.