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Title

Cross currents in African theatre / edited by Austin Asagba.

Publication

Benin City, Edo State [Nigeria] : Osasu Publishers, [2001]

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Details

Additional Authors

Asagba, Austin.

Description

vii, 308 p.; 21 cm.

Subject

• Theater > Africa > Congresses
• African drama > Congresses

Note

• " ... essays which grew out of the presentations of papers at the First Annual Conference on the University of Benin on African Theatre, which took place from April 26 to April 28, 1990 ..."--Foreword.
• "Table of contents" (1 p.) inserted.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The political imperative in African dramaturgy and theatre practice / Femi Osofisan -- Experience ideology and textuality in Soyinka's From Zia with love / Frank Uche Mowah -- The use of symbols in The cassava ghost / Ambrose Adikamkwu Monye -- Colonialism and the development of drama in Nigeria / Ahmed Yerima -- The performing arts and social control in the traditional Igbo society : a focus on Igbo songs of scandal / Ndubuisi Nwafor-Ejelinma -- Politics of change in Nigeria[n] drama : Sofola and Onwueme framed / Chris Nwamuo -- Nigeria[n] popular music as dynamic as culture / Jose[p]hine Ngozi Mokwenyei -- Revolutionary rhetorics : the search for an alternative African theatre : Femi Osofisan and Ebrahim Hussein / Austin Ovigue Asagba -- Language and ideology in Tunde Fatunde's two plays : Oga na tief man and Water no get enemy / Onookome Okome -- Rotimi & the drama of culturalist assertion / Egwugwu Illah -- Setting and the thematic realization of the issue of change in Aidoo's Dilemma of a ghost and Sutherland's Foriwa / Chinyere G. Okafor -- Dramatic artist and environmental pedagogics in Nigeria / Imo Ben Eshiet -- Towards bridging the gap between the academic and professional theatres in Nigeria / Taiwo Adeyemi -- Democratizing a nation in crisis : the role of the theatre artist / A.E. Anigala -- Television drama and the politics of ethnicity : the Nigerian situation / Marcel Okhakhu -- History and the historical play : a radical study Ola Rotimi's Kurunmi, Ovonramwen nogbaisi, and Hopes of the living dead / Femi Shaka -- Theatre and the media / Godwin A. Awani -- Is ritual drama humanistic methodology? / Dele Layiwola -- Sustaining community theatre for rural development in Nigeria : the Kwara State experience / Ayo Ola Akinwale -- Television broadcasting in a competitive market / Barclays Foubiri Ayakoroma -- Feminist theatre as an agent of sustainable development : Tess Onwueme's The reign of Wazobia and Go tell it to women investigated / Mabel E. Tobrise.

Call Number

Sc D 02-1507

ISBN

9782979104

OCLC

48011787

Title

Cross currents in African theatre / edited by Austin Asagba.

Imprint

Benin City, Edo State [Nigeria] : Osasu Publishers, [2001]

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Asagba, Austin.

Research Call Number

Sc D 02-1507