“Performance” in Transatlantic Communities in Africa

There is no better place to explore the contours of performance as an idea and as practice than in the context of Africa, which has been made into an object through a number of performance tropes. . . . The ways performance becomes a frame of enactment, creative movements of Africa not just for Africa but, most significantly in the performance of Africa for wide-ranging audiences. . . . The continent becomes an object of significance in various local and global contexts . . . Notions of “culture” allows one to observe how Africa becomes a significant site in the performance of place in global context. ¹