ABSTRACT
Now available in paperback for the first time this edition of the World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre series examines theatrical developments in Africa since 1945. Entries on thirty-two African countries are featured in this volume, preceded by specialist introductory essays on Anglophone Africa, Francophone Africa, History and Culture, Cosmology, Music, Dance, Theatre for Young Audiences and Puppetry. There are also special introductory general essays on African theatre written by Nobel Prize Laureate Wole Soyinka and the outstanding Congolese playwright, Sony Labou Tansi, before his untimely death in 1995. More up-to-date and more wide-ranging than any other publication, this is undoubtedly a major ground-breaking survey of contemporary African theatre.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
letter |46 pages
Africa
entry |8 pages
An Introduction
entry |3 pages
Foreword
entry |3 pages
African Theatre in a Global Context
entry |13 pages
Of Inner Roots and External Adjuncts
entry |8 pages
The Great Ode of History
entry |3 pages
African Puppets and Masks
entry |4 pages
African Theatre and the Question of History
entry |2 pages
Theatre in Africa
letter |324 pages
The Nations and Their Theatres
entry |4 pages
Angola (Overview)
entry |11 pages
Bénin
entry |8 pages
Burkina Faso
entry |4 pages
Burundi
entry |14 pages
Cameroon
entry |3 pages
Chad
entry |4 pages
Congo
entry |15 pages
Côte d'Ivoire
entry |17 pages
Ethiopia
entry |20 pages
Ghana
entry |7 pages
Guinea
entry |4 pages
Guinea-Bissau (Overview)
entry |5 pages
Kenya (Overview)
entry |9 pages
Liberia
entry |7 pages
Madagascar
entry |8 pages
Mali
entry |9 pages
Mauritius
entry |6 pages
Mozambique
entry |6 pages
Namibia
entry |7 pages
Niger
entry |17 pages
Nigeria
entry |4 pages
Rwanda
entry |10 pages
Sénégal
entry |6 pages
Seychelles
entry |12 pages
Sierra Leone
entry |30 pages
South Africa
entry |17 pages
Tanzania
entry |5 pages
Togo
entry |10 pages
Uganda
entry |12 pages
Zaïre
entry |12 pages
Zambia
entry |16 pages
Zimbabwe