Research Catalog

Title

Theatre for development in Africa : historical and institutional perspectives / edited by Christopher B. Balme and Abdul Karim Hakib.

Publication

Hildesheim : Olms ; München : Universitätsbibliothek Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2023.

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Additional Authors

• Balme, Christopher B.
• Hakib, Abdul Karim
• Universität München. Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, issuing body.
• Tshwane University of Technology. Faculty of Arts and Design, issuing body.
• European Research Council, sponsoring body.

Description

xiii, 256 pages : color charts; 21 cm

Subject

• Theater in community development > Africa
• Theater in community development > Africa > Case studies

Note

• "This publication was supported by the European Research Council, funding ID 694559"--Title page verso.
• Contributions were intended for a conference to take place in Pretoria, South Africa, 16-20 March 2020, as a collaboration of the Department of Theatre Studies, LMU Munich and the Faculty of Arts and Design, Tshwane University of Technology, under the auspices of the European Research Council-funded project 'Developing Theatre: Building Expert Networks for Theatre in Emerging Countries after 1945.' The conference never took place, even online.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction / Christopher Balme and Abdul Karim Hakib. -- part I. Globalized concept, conceptual framings and the development of networks. From theatre for development to theatre as development / Tim Prentki -- Disrupting the performance in the evolutionary journey(s) of theatre for development in Africa / Oga Steve Abah -- Theatre for development in Africa : the quest for empowerment of grassroots communities for critical participation in development processes / Penina Oniviel Mlama -- Theatre for development within and outside academic : critical reflections from experiences / Selina Banda and Daniel L. Mpolomoka -- Transnational networks of the Theatre of the Oppressed : exchanges and institutionalization of a circulating method / Clara de Andrade -- Back to the grassroots : the global-historical frameworks of theatre for development as an organizational field / Christopher Balme. -- part II. Country-specific case studies. Theatre for development in Ghana : influences, contexts and changing narratives / Abdul Karim Hakib -- History and evolution of theatre for development in Cameroon : implications for formal and non-formal institutions / Emelda Ngufor Samba -- A typology of theatre for development in Ghana / Victor K. Yankah -- Theatre for development practice in south-south Nigeria (1990 to the present) / Ofonime Inyang and Idaresit Inyang -- Theatre for development, community development and tertiary institutions in Nigeria / Abel Idebe -- Impact assessment of theatre for development (TfD) academic practice in the Niger-Benue Valley of Nigeria, 1993-2013 / Sunday Ogbu Igbaba -- A situational analysis of theatre for development in Tanzania / Daines Nicodem Sanga.

Call Number

PN3307.A35

ISBN

• 9783487163314
• 3487163314

LCCN

9783487163314

OCLC

• on1382776651
• 1382776651
• SCSB-14591903

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries