ABSTRACT
Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo (b.1942) is an interdisciplinary artist, critic, and theorist from Kenya. Best known in theatre as the coauthor of the postcolonial classic The Trial of Dedan Kimathi (1976; with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o), Mĩcere has contributed to critical and theoretical discourses on African literature, Pan-Africanism, women and gender studies, Black feminism, and performance studies. Her critical writings on “orature” have elaborated the ways in which oral performance comprises a distinctive mode of Africanist cultural practice. Moreover, her theorization of orature emphasizes how African women have historically drawn on, and may continue to draw on, performance to shape Black cultural, social, and political life.
