A History of theatre in Africa / edited by Martin Banham
- Additional Titles
- History of theater in Africa
- Published
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xvii, 478 pages)
- Additional Creators
- Banham, Martin
Access Online
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- Concepts of history and theatre in Africa / Kole Omotoso -- North Africa. Egypt / Ahmed Zaki ; Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia / Kamal Salhi ; Sudan / Khalid AlMubarak Mustafa -- Francophone Africa south of the Sahara / John Conteh-Morgan -- Anglophone West Africa. Nigeria / Dapo Adelugba and Olu Obafemi, with additional material by Sola Adeyemi ; Ghana / James Gibbs ; Sierra Leone / Mohamed Sheriff ; A note on recent Anglophone Cameroonian theatre / Asheri Kolo -- East Africa. Ethiopia and Eritrea / Jane Plastow ; Kenya / Chiarunji Chesaina and Evan Mwangi ; Tanzania / Amandina Lihamba ; Uganda / Eckhard Breitinger -- Southern Africa / David Kerr, with Stephen Chifunyise -- South Africa / Yvette Hutchison -- Theatre in Portuguese-speaking African countries / Luís R. Mitras -- Mauritius and Réunion / Roshni Mooneeram -- Surviving the crossing : theatre in the African Diaspora / Osita Okagbue.
- Summary
- This is the first full history of theatre in Africa and offers a comprehensive, yet accessible, account of this long and varied chronicle. 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; and Mauritius.
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- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780511193620
0511193629
9780521808132
0521808138
0511194366
9780511194368
0511195052 (electronic bk.)
9780511195051 (electronic bk.)
0511195710 (electronic bk.)
9780511195716 (electronic bk.)
1280477660
9781280477669
1316085678
9781316085677
0511314108
9780511314100 - Digital File Characteristics
- data file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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