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.

• Editor's Introduction - James GibbsFestivals as a strategy for the development of theatre in Zimbabwe, 1980-201 - Robert Mshengu KavanaghThe legacy of Festac '77: the challenge of the Nigerian National Theatre at Iganmu - Ahmed YerimaFestac, month by month and Soyinka's involvement - James GibbsThe Dakar Festivals of 1966 & 2010 - Yatma DieyeAfrican Renaissance between rhetoric & the aesthetics of extravagance: FESMAN 2010 - entrapped in textuality - Amy NiangTheatre Programme for FESMAN, with Commentary - James GibbsThe Pan-African Historical Theatre Festival (Panafest) in Ghana, 1922-2010: the vision & the reality - Victor K. YankahPanafest through the Headlines: an Annotated Bibliography - James GibbsInternational festivals & transnational theatre circuits in Egypt, 1988-2010: ambassadors of no nation - Sonali PahwaThe Jos Theatre Festival, 2004- 2011:a theatre festival in a divided community - Patrick-Jude OtehThe Grahamstown Festival & the making of a dramatist: an interview with Andrew Buckland - Andrew BucklandPlayscript: Prison Graduates by Efo Kodjo Mawugbe with a review of a performance by James GibbsBook Reviews

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.

• Editor's Introduction - James GibbsFestivals as a strategy for the development of theatre in Zimbabwe, 1980-201 - Robert Mshengu KavanaghThe legacy of Festac '77: the challenge of the Nigerian National Theatre at Iganmu - Ahmed YerimaFestac, month by month and Soyinka's involvement - James GibbsThe Dakar Festivals of 1966 & 2010 - Yatma DieyeAfrican Renaissance between rhetoric & the aesthetics of extravagance: FESMAN 2010 - entrapped in textuality - Amy NiangTheatre Programme for FESMAN, with Commentary - James GibbsThe Pan-African Historical Theatre Festival (Panafest) in Ghana, 1922-2010: the vision & the reality - Victor K. YankahPanafest through the Headlines: an Annotated Bibliography - James GibbsInternational festivals & transnational theatre circuits in Egypt, 1988-2010: ambassadors of no nation - Sonali PahwaThe Jos Theatre Festival, 2004- 2011:a theatre festival in a divided community - Patrick-Jude OtehThe Grahamstown Festival & the making of a dramatist: an interview with Andrew Buckland - Andrew BucklandPlayscript: Prison Graduates by Efo Kodjo Mawugbe with a review of a performance by James GibbsBook Reviews

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.

• Editor's Introduction - James GibbsFestivals as a strategy for the development of theatre in Zimbabwe, 1980-201 - Robert Mshengu KavanaghThe legacy of Festac '77: the challenge of the Nigerian National Theatre at Iganmu - Ahmed YerimaFestac, month by month and Soyinka's involvement - James GibbsThe Dakar Festivals of 1966 & 2010 - Yatma DieyeAfrican Renaissance between rhetoric & the aesthetics of extravagance: FESMAN 2010 - entrapped in textuality - Amy NiangTheatre Programme for FESMAN, with Commentary - James GibbsThe Pan-African Historical Theatre Festival (Panafest) in Ghana, 1922-2010: the vision & the reality - Victor K. YankahPanafest through the Headlines: an Annotated Bibliography - James GibbsInternational festivals & transnational theatre circuits in Egypt, 1988-2010: ambassadors of no nation - Sonali PahwaThe Jos Theatre Festival, 2004- 2011:a theatre festival in a divided community - Patrick-Jude OtehThe Grahamstown Festival & the making of a dramatist: an interview with Andrew Buckland - Andrew BucklandPlayscript: Prison Graduates by Efo Kodjo Mawugbe with a review of a performance by James GibbsBook Reviews