The ‘African Opera Village’ Turns Ten. Three Perspectives on a Controversial Project in Burkina Faso

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Notes on Contributors xi
5. Obituaries xvii
6. Remembering Victor Ukaegbu xvii
7. Sidwell Hartman & George Stevens xix
8. Acknowledgements xxiv
9. Introduction 1
10. Articles
11. A Revolt in (more than just) Four Parts 17
12. ‘It was here, you must remember, our children played their games’. A Historiography of District Six Musical Theatre 29
13. ‘Opera is an art form for everyone’. Black Empowerment in the South African Opera Adaptations Unogumbe (2013) and Breathe – Umphefumlo (2015) 52
14. ‘We can’t let politics define the arts’. Interviews with South African Opera Singers 77
15. Aida’s Legacy or De-/Colonising Music Theatre in Egypt. The Example of the Cairo Opera House 90
16. Towards an African Operatic Voice. Composition, Dramaturgy and Identity Strategies in New Yorùbá Opera 107
17. The Phantom of the West African Opera. A tour d’horizon 136
18. The ‘African Opera Village’ Turns Ten. Three Perspectives on a Controversial Project in Burkina Faso 159
19. ‘I smoked them out’. Perspectives on the Emergence of Folk Opera or ‘Musical Plays’ in Uganda 183
20. ‘Home is where the memory persists most’. Introducing Zainabu Jallo’s We Take Care of Our Own 194
21. Playscript
22. We Take Care of Our Own 203
23. Book Reviews
24. Chima Osakwe. The Revolutionary Drama and Theatre of Femi Osofisan 231
25. S. M. Mofokeng. Senkatana 233
26. Victor N. Gomia and Gilbert S. Ndi, eds Re-writing Pasts, Imagining Futures: Critical Explorations of Contemporary African Fiction and Theater 237
27. Angelo Gobbato. A Passion for Opera 240
28. Koulsy Lamko. Bintou Wéré: African Opera 243
29. Musa Ngqungwana Odyssey of an African Opera Singer 245
30. Mary I. Ingraham, Joseph K. So and Roy Moodley, eds Opera in a Multicultural World: Coloniality, Culture, Performance 247
31. Hilde Roos. The La Traviata Affair: Opera in the Age of Apartheid 250
32. Naomi André. Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement 254
33. Naomi André, Donato Somma and Innocentia Jabulisile Mhlambi, eds ‘New Voices in Black South African Opera’ African Studies, vol. 75, no. 1 258