ABSTRACT
Writer and theorist N’Gugi Wa Thiong’o is a major influence on community performance
practitioners in Africa and beyond. He has a vision of performance and art as a humanizing
influence, celebrating local creativity in a post-colonial world:
In an age where science and technology have developed to a level where it is possible
to outlaw poverty, we see the return of the Dickensian world on a global level. More and
more people feel themselves confined to mega-ghettos. And the state, far from being
subject to social control of the majority, becomes even more beholden to financiers.
