African Theatre 1: African Theatre in Development

Femi Osofisan is an internationally lauded playwright, scholar, poet, novelist, actor, director, songwriter, and activist and Professor Emeritus of Theatre Arts at the University of Ibadan. Osofisan was awarded the Thalia Prize in 2016. He has published five novellas, six volumes of poetry, and more than 50 plays. Femi Osofisan is an internationally lauded playwright, scholar, poet, novelist, actor, director, songwriter, and activist and Professor Emeritus of Theatre Arts at the University of Ibadan. Osofisan was awarded the Thalia Prize in 2016. He has published five novellas, six volumes of poetry, and more than 50 plays.

• Strategies in staging - theatre technique in the plays of Zakes Mda, Carolyn Duggan; propaganda and mass education - Alec Dickson and drama for development in the Gold Coast, James Gibbs; theatre development in Mauritius - from a theatre of protest to a theatre of cultural miscegenation, Roshni Mooneran; telling the Lion's Tale - making theatre in Eritrea, Ali Campbell et al; Alemseged Tesfai - a playwright in service to Eritrean liberation, Jane Plastow; performance studio workshop in Igboelerin East (1997), Chuck Mike et al; art as tool, weapon or shield? report on a seminar on arts for development, Harare (4-8 March 1997), David Kerr; arts and development II - furthering the agenda, Ibadan (1998), Jumai Ewu; 15 years between - Benue and Katsina workshops, Nigeria, Frances Harding; practice and policy in theatre and development - seminar, London (1998) - a personal response, Jan Cohen-Cruz; noticeboard - short materials and reports on theatre/development projects and related material; a new playscript from Africa - "Babalawo, Mystery-Master", Agbo Sikuade.

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