Research Catalog

Title

Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo & Wole Soyinka / volume editors, Martin Banham & Femi Osofisan ; guest editor, Kimani Njogu, reviews editor, Martin Banham.

Publication

• Oxford : James Currey, [2014]
• ©2014

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Additional Authors

• Banham, Martin
• Gibbs, James (James Morel)
• Osofisan, Femi
• Njogu, Kimani

Description

xv, 128 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

Directors and collaborators assess and comment on the production of plays by West Africa's Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka and East Africa's most influential author Ngugi wa Thiong'o.

Series Statement

African theatre ; 13

Uniform Title

African theatre (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England) 13.

Alternative Title

• Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo and Wole Soyinka
• Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo and Wole Soyinka

Subject

• Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938- > Criticism and interpretation
• Soyinka, Wole > Criticism and interpretation
• Theater > Africa

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Reading & performing African drama : how Wole Soyinka & Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o influenced my work / David Kerr -- Ayan contra Ujamaa : Soyinka & Ngũgĩ as theatre theorists / Biodun Jeyifo -- Encounters with Soyinka -- Working with Wole Soyinka / Tunji Oyelana, in conversation with Sola Adeyemi -- The difficulties of a neophyte staging : Wole Soyinka's The beatification of Area Boy / Tunde Onikoyi -- Pentecostalizing Soyinka's The trials of Brother Jero / Bisi Adigun -- The lion & the jewel in Mombasa / Silviah Namussasi -- Encounters with Ngũgĩ -- Choru wa Mũirũrĩ : reflections on the Kamĩrĩĩthũ experience / Mugo Muhia -- Producing I will marry when I want in South Africa / Frederick Mbogo -- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o : the unrecognized black hermit / Oby Obyerodhyambo -- Kamĩrĩĩthũ in retrospect / Gichingiri Ndigirigi -- Wole Soyinka & Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o : plays in production / James Gibbs & Mugo Muhia -- The making of The trial of Dedan Kĩmathi by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o & Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo at the University of California, Irvine / Ketu H. Katrak -- A rain of stones : a play for radio / Wole Soyinka.

ISBN

• 9781847010988 (pbk.)
• 1847010989 (pbk.)
• 9781782043867 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 900181774
• SCSB-11423584

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library