Samuel Morgan Smith was the second African American actor to have a successful career abroad. Following in the footsteps of Ira Aldridge, he set out in 1866 for London, having had no previous professional experience on stage in America, and for the next sixteen years he was able to find opportu..

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Samuel Morgan Smith was the second African American actor to have a successful career abroad. Following in the footsteps of Ira Aldridge, he set out in 1866 for London, having had no previous professional experience on stage in America, and for the next sixteen years he was able to find opportu..

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The four plays in this book bring together aspects of American history and culture that dramatize the presence and contributions of Africans and African Americans in the shaping of the United States. Written for performance by junior and high school youth, the plays introduce students to The Mi..

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In the late 1990s, Gilbert Doho, then professor of theater at the University of Yaounde, Cameroon undertook with a colleague the establishment of “people theater” workshops throughout the country, which was in political and social turmoil. In "People Theater and Grassroots Empowerment in Camero..

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This insightful and thought-provoking play is a woman’s testimony that disappointment is a “moving force” which can propel one to the top. In the play, Sota Ojo can confidently claim that he is on the right side of opportunities. He travels abroad from his native country, Nigeria, into the wait..

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The New Toyi Toyi draws from research on Swazi, Southern African, and African cultural life. It was inspired by the quest for solutions to Africa’s problems conceptualized as ‘disease’ in the play, the need to seek for answers in African cultural strengths that have sustained life on t..

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The last two decades of the twentieth century saw an unprecedented upsurge of interest in African drama and theatre, which is poised to continue into this century. As shown in this collection of essays written from different critical perspectives, African playwrights have clearly proven through..

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Kamiriithu has attracted considerable critical attention over the last twenty-five years. In this ground-breaking study of Kamiriithu, the author puts pressure on some of the assumptions driving earlier research. Moving from a savvy discussion of all extant Ngugi plays and their contexts, Ndigi..

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Rice Keepers is a full-length play in eleven scenes, with ten characters, two of whom double up, and a dancer. Set in the Nimba, a village in a Guinee Coast country, the play centers around historical events of the past, particularly a massacre in the village of Nimba where the farmers..

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“This will be the first book that I am aware of that takes a sustained critical look at the works of African female dramatists across various geographical regions of the continent and deals with plays in more than one language. Examining the works of eleven female dramatists from East, West and..

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