World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Volume 3: Africa

by Diakhate,Ousmane

• ISBN13: 9780415059312
• ISBN10: 0415059313
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-06-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Volume Three in this series carries on from the highly acclaimed volumes on Europe and on the Americas. Focusing on non-Arabic Africa, and with contributions from leading experts from the countries featured, the third volume of the World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre series examines theatrical developments in Africa since 1945. Entries on thirty-two African countries are featured in this volume, preceded by specialist introductory essays on Anglophone Africa, Francophone Africa, History and Culture, Cosmology, Music, Dance, Theatre for Young Audiences and Puppetry. There are also special introductory general essays on African theatre written by Nobel Prize Laureate Wole Soyinka and the outstanding Congolese playwright, Sony Labou Tansi, before his untimely death in 1995. More up-to-date and more wide-ranging than any other publication, this is undoubtedly a major ground-breaking survey of contemporary African theatre.

Table of Contents

An Introduction: Of Nations and Their Theatres	3	(11)
Don Rubin
Foreword: African Theatre: From Ali Baba to Woza Albert!	11	(3)
Wole Soyinka
African Theatre in a Global Context	14	(3)
Don Rubin
Of Inner Roots and External Adjuncts	17	(13)
Ousmane Diakhate
Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh
The Great Ode of History: Music and Dance in Africa	30	(8)
Atta Annan Mensah
African Puppets and Masks: Links in a Historical Chain	38	(3)
Henryk Jurkowski
African Theatre and the Question of History	41	(4)
Ato Quayson
Theatre in Africa: The Art and Heart of Living	45	(4)
Sony Labou Tansi
The Nations and Their Theatres
Angola (Overview)	49	(4)
Benin	53	(11)
Burkina Faso	64	(8)
Burundi	72	(4)
Cameroon	76	(14)
Chad (Overview)	90	(3)
Congo (Overview)	93	(4)
Cote d'Ivoire	97	(16)
Ethiopia	113	(17)
Ghana	130	(20)
Guinea	150	(7)
Guinea-Bissau (Overview)	157	(5)
Kenya (Overview)	162	(5)
Liberia	167	(9)
Madagascar	176	(7)
Mali	183	(8)
Mauritius	191	(9)
Mozambique	200	(6)
Namibia	206	(6)
Niger	212	(7)
Nigeria	219	(17)
Rwanda (Overview)	236	(4)
Senegal	240	(10)
Seychelles	250	(6)
Sierra Leone	256	(12)
South Africa	268	(31)
Tanzania	299	(17)
Togo (Overview)	316	(5)
Uganda	321	(10)
Zaire	331	(12)
Zambia	343	(12)
Zimbabwe	355	(16)
Further Reading: Africa	371	(10)
International Reference: Selected Bibliography	381	(5)
Writers and National Editorial Committees	386	(6)
Index	392