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African Theatre 11: Festivals
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2012
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Contributors examine how international theatre festivals have been organised and how they have affected the evolution of sustainable theatre.
During the last fifty years, large sums of money, huge resources of labour and vast amounts of creative energy have been invested in international theatre festivals in Africa. Under banners such as 'Reclaiming the African Past' and 'African Renaissance', the festival participants have used the performing arts to address a variety of topical issues and to confront images embedded by a century of patronising colonial expositions. The themes indicate the desire to take history by the forelock, challenge perceptions and transform communities.
Volume Editor: JAMES GIBBS
Series Editors: Martin Banham, Emeritus Professor of Drama & Theatre Studies, University of Leeds; James Gibbs, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, University of the West of England; Femi Osofisan, Professor of Drama at the University of Ibadan; Jane Plastow, Professor of African Theatre, University of Leeds; Yvette Hutchison,Associate Professor, Department of Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Warwick
During the last fifty years, large sums of money, huge resources of labour and vast amounts of creative energy have been invested in international theatre festivals in Africa. Under banners such as 'Reclaiming the African Past' and 'African Renaissance', the festival participants have used the performing arts to address a variety of topical issues and to confront images embedded by a century of patronising colonial expositions. The themes indicate the desire to take history by the forelock, challenge perceptions and transform communities.
Volume Editor: JAMES GIBBS
Series Editors: Martin Banham, Emeritus Professor of Drama & Theatre Studies, University of Leeds; James Gibbs, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, University of the West of England; Femi Osofisan, Professor of Drama at the University of Ibadan; Jane Plastow, Professor of African Theatre, University of Leeds; Yvette Hutchison,Associate Professor, Department of Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Warwick
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Contributor: Femi Osofisan
Femi Osofisan is an internationally lauded playwright, scholar, poet, novelist, actor, director, songwriter, and activist and Professor Emeritus of Theatre Arts at the University of Ibadan. Osofisan was awarded the Thalia Prize in 2016. He has published five novellas, six volumes of poetry, and more than 50 plays.
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Contents
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Notes on Contributors
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Obituary Efo Kodjo Mawugbe
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Introduction
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Festivals as a Strategy for the Development of Theatre in Zimbabwe 1980–2010
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The Legacy of Festac ’77 The challenge of the Nigerian National Theatre at Iganmu
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Festac, Month by Month & Soyinka’s Involvement
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The Dakar Festivals of 1966 & 2010
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African Renaissance between Rhetoric & the Aesthetics of Extravagance: FESMAN 2010 – Entrapped in Textuality
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Theatre Programme for FESMAN & Commentary
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The Pan-African Historical Theatre Festival (PANAFEST) in Ghana 1992–2010 The vision and the reality
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PANAFEST through the Headlines An annotated bibliography
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International Festivals & Transnational Theatre Circuits in Egypt: Ambassadors of no nation
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The Jos Theatre Festival 2004–2011 A theatre festival in a divided community
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The Grahamstown Festival & the Making of a Dramatist: An interview with Andrew Buckland
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Prison Graduates EFO KODJO MAWUGBE
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Bernth Lindfors, Ira Aldridge, Vol. 1,The Early Years, 1807-1833, & Vol.2, The Vagabond Years, 1833-1852
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Austin Asagba (ed.), Cross-Currents in African Theatre and Theatre & Minority Rights: Perspectives on the Niger
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Michael Etherton and John Reed, Chikwakwa Remembered: Theatre & Politics in Zambia, 1968–1972
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Kene Igweonu (ed.), Trends in Twenty-First Century African Theatre & Performance (Foreword by Temple Hauptfleisch)
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Austin Ovigue Asagba (ed.), Sam Ukala: His Work at Sixty, and Duro Oni & Sola Adeyemi, (eds), Developments in the Theory & Practice of Contemporary Nigerian Drama & Theatre: A Festschrift in Honour of Dapo Adel
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Barclays Ayakoroma, Dance on his Grave & A Matter of Honour, Greg Mbajiorgu, Wake Up Everyone, & Jonathan Desen Mbachaga, Widow’s
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Keywords for this book
African Theatre 11: Festivals; international theatre festivals; Africa; 'Reclaiming the African Past'; 'African Renaissance'; performing arts; colonial expositions; history; perceptions; American higher education; festival participants; trends; African theatre.
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