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In this Issue

Analysing Africa

  • Ibadan 1960 - Martin Banham
  • The LUCAS Schools' Global Citizenship Project - Jane Plastow
  • Supernumeraries of the Human Race? Reflections on the African 'holocaust' - Morris Szeftel

Reading Africa

  • Review of African Theatre and Performances - Martin Banham
  • Review of Ngoma: Approaches to Arts Education in Southern Africa - Martin Banham
  • Review of Various titles from Bayreuth African Studies - Martin Banham
  • Review of Black Star / The African Slave Trade - Martin Banham
  • Review of Ngugi wa Thiong’o Speaks: Interviews with the Kenyan Writer - Martin Banham
  • Review of State of Violence: Politics, Youth and Memory in Contemporary Africa - Michael Etherton
  • Review of African Theatre: Youth - Tim Prentki
  • Review of Aawambo Kingdoms: History and Cultural Change - Will Jackson
  • Review of Public and Private Universities in Kenya / Gender in the Making of the Nigerian University System / Change and Transformation in Ghana's Publicly Funded University - James Gibbs
  • Review of Beautiful Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics - Will Rea
  • Review of Far in the Waste Sudan: On Assignment in Africa - Michael Medley
  • Review of Democratic Reform in Africa: Its Impact on Governance and Poverty Alleviation - Michael Medley
  • Review of Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century - Ineke van Kessel
  • Review of Globalisation and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness - Dr. Olasunkanmi Sholarin
  • Review of Writing Madness: Borderlines of the body in African literature - Jane Plastow
  • Review of Journey of Song: Public Life and Morality in Cameroon - Bill Jong-Ebot

Leeds African Studies Bulletin No. 69 (2007/08) Friday 29 June 2007

Review of African Theatre and Performances

By Martin Banham (University of Leeds)

Abstract

 

  • Article keywords:
  • Martin Banham
  • Osita Okagbue

African Theatres and Performances. Osita Okagbue, Routledge, London, 2007, Pp. 200. ISBN 0 415 30453-9 (hbk). £60.

This new and important study describes and analyses the performance of Mmonwu – Igbo masquerade theatre, Bori – Hausa ritual theatre, Jaliya – the art of Mandinka griots and griottes, and Koteba (kote-tlon) – comedy and satire of the Bamana. Okagbue challenges the use of western critical approaches to describe and appreciate traditional and ancient performance forms in Africa.

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