Modern African drama
Subtitle: backgrounds and criticism
By: edited by Biodun Jeyifo.
Contributors: Jeyifo, Biodun, 1946-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: A Norton critical edition
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 646
Subjects: African drama (English); African drama (English) -- History and criticism.; Theater -- Africa.; Africa -- Drama.
Genres: Drama.
Description: Presents eight twentieth-century plays from seven African countries, along with explanatory notes and over thirty background writings and works of criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 643-646).
Table of contents: title: The fate of a cockroach / Tawfik al-Hakim; title: Intelligence powder / Kateb Yacine; title: Sizwe Bansi is dead / Athol Fugard, John Kani & Winston Nthsona; title: Death and the king's horseman / Wole Soyinka; title: A collision of altars / Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin; title: The dilemma of a ghost / Ama Ata Aidoo; title: I will marry when I want / Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Ngugi wa Mirii; title: Esu and the vagabond minstrels / Femi Osofisan.