ABSTRACT
At the tenth annual Performing Arts Festival of the Zambia National Theatre Arts Association (ZANTAA), held at a National Service camp outside the old mining town of Kabwe, what seemed to me to be a new theme was manifested in some of the plays presented. It made itself felt even more strongly at the 1985 festival, held at Hillcrest Secondary School in Livingstone, but I realized, on reflection, that it had also been there at the 1983 Mansa festival where, as at Kabwe in 1984 and Livingstone in 1985, I had been invited to adjudicate in the drama section (the only white person, incidentally, among the 1200 participants).
