A history of theatre in Africa
By: edited by Martin Banham.
Contributors: Banham, Martin.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 478
Subjects: Theater -- Africa -- History; Performing arts -- Africa -- History
Description: "This book aims to offer a broad history of theatre in Africa, covering the entire continent. 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 account of this long and varied chronicle and is written by a team of scholars in the field."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.