Presents Eight Twentieth-century Plays From Seven African Countries, Along With Explanatory Notes And Over Thirty Background Writings And Works Of Criticism. The Fate Of A Cockroach / Tawfik Al-hakim -- Intelligence Powder / Kateb Yacine -- Sizwe Bansi Is Dead / Athol Fugard, John Kani & Winston Nthsona -- Death And The King's Horseman / Wole Soyinka -- A Collision Of Altars / Tsegaye Gabre-medhin -- The Dilemma Of A Ghost / Ama Ata Aidoo -- I Will Marry When I Want / Ngugi Wa Thiong'o And Ngugi Wa Mirii -- Esu And The Vagabond Minstrels / Femi Osofisan. Backgrounds And Criticism -- On National Culture / Frantz Fanon -- Theatre In African Traditional Cultures: Survival Patterns / Wole Soyinka -- Enactments Of Power: The Politics Of Performance Space / Ngugi Wa Thiong'o -- The Reinvention Of Theatrical Tradition / Biodun Jeyifo -- African Theatre In A Global Context / Don Rubin -- Dimensions Of Theatricality In Africa / Joachim Fieback -- Art As Tool, Weapon Or Shield? : Arts For Development Seminar, Harare / David Kerr -- Trends In The Drama Of Tawfik Al-hakim / Paul Starkey -- Introduction To Fate Of A Cockroach And Other Plays / Denys Johnson-davies -- Philosophical And Psychological Themes In Fate Of A Cockroach / Richard Long -- The Theatrical Carnivalesque In Intelligence Powder / Bernard Aresu -- Populist Aesthetics And Idioms In Kateb Yacine's Theatre / Jacqueline Kaye And Abdelhamid Zoubir -- The Pragmatics And Aesthetics Of Kateb Yacine's Theatre Practice / Kamal Salhi. Introduction To Statements / Athol Fugard -- Robert Zwelinzima Is Alive / Russell Vandenbroucke -- Artistic Ambivalence In Sizwe Bansi Is Dead / Hilary Seymour -- The Statements Plays / Dennis Walder -- Author's Note To Death And The King's Horseman / Wole Soyinka -- Towards A True Theatre / Wole Soyinka -- The Fox's Dance : The Staging Of Soyinka's Plays / Annemarie Heywood -- Cultural Death And The King's Horseman / Adebayo Williams -- Tribute To Wole Soyinka / Michael Etherton -- Author's Note To Collision Of Altars / Tsegaye Gabre-medhin -- Collision Of Alters : Notes On History / Richard Pankhurst -- Art And Ideology In The Plays Of Tsegaye Gabre-medhin -- Tsegaye Gabre-medhin And Ethiopian Reformist Theatre / Jane Plastow -- Oral Tradition In Dilemma Of A Ghost / Lloyd W. Brown -- Motherhood In Ama Ata Aidoo's Plays / C.l. Innes -- A Bird Of The Wayside Sings / Vincent O. Odamtten -- Women In Cultural Work : The Fate Of The Kamĩrĩĩthũ People's Theatre In Kenya / Ngugi Wa Thiong'o -- I Will Marry When I Want / Oliver Lovesey -- Formal Strategies And Social Commentary In His Plays / Femi Osofisan -- Hegemony Rests With The Audience / Sandra Richards -- Form, Content, And Context In Femi Osofisan's Drama / Abiola Irele -- The Theatre Of Femi Osofisan / Chris Dunton -- African Drama : A Chronology. Edited By Biodun Jeyifo. Authoritative Texts Of: Fate Of A Cockroach -- Intelligence Powder -- Sizwe Bansi Is Dead -- Death And The King's Horseman -- Collision Of Altars -- The Dilemma Of A Ghost -- I Will Marry When I Want -- Esu And The Vagabond Minstrels. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 643-646).

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