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. Yvette Hutchison is Associate Professor, Department of Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Warwick. CHRISTINE MATZKE, Lecturer in African Literatures and Cultures, Humboldt-University, Berlin. Jane Plastow is Professor of African Theatre, University of Leeds. Yvette Hutchison is Associate Professor, Department of Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Warwick.

• Introduction - Yvette HutchisonLooking for 'Eritrea's past property' (1947): archives & memories in Eritrean theatre historiography - Christine MatzkeSeeking the Founding Father: the story of Kobina Sekyi's The Blinkards (1916) - James GibbsMedieval morality & liturgical drama in colonial Rhodesia: early Christian martyrs dramatized - Owen SedaContesting constructions of cultural production in & through urban theatre in Rhodesia, c.1890-1950 - Samuel Ravengai'Don't talk into my talk': oral narratives, cultural identity & popular performance in colonial Uganda - Sam KasuleThe leaf & the soap: a story of appropriation & resistance - Cristina BoscoloThe representation of Khoisan characters in early Dutch-Afrikaans dramas in South Africa - Marisa KeurisImages of Africa in early twentieth-century British theatre - Steve NicholsonThe First African Play: Tekle Hawariat's Fabula: Yawreoch Commedia & its influence on the development of Ethiopian theatre - Jane PlastowPlayscript: Tekle Hawariat's Fabula: Yawreoch Commedia (The Comedy of Animals) translated from the Amharic by Belayneh AbunehBook Reviews

A most welcome addition to the African Theatre series as it updates and significantly expands on the scant literature that currently exists on the subject of African theatre history.

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. Yvette Hutchison is Associate Professor, Department of Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Warwick. CHRISTINE MATZKE, Lecturer in African Literatures and Cultures, Humboldt-University, Berlin. Jane Plastow is Professor of African Theatre, University of Leeds. Yvette Hutchison is Associate Professor, Department of Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Warwick.

• Introduction - Yvette HutchisonLooking for 'Eritrea's past property' (1947): archives & memories in Eritrean theatre historiography - Christine MatzkeSeeking the Founding Father: the story of Kobina Sekyi's The Blinkards (1916) - James GibbsMedieval morality & liturgical drama in colonial Rhodesia: early Christian martyrs dramatized - Owen SedaContesting constructions of cultural production in & through urban theatre in Rhodesia, c.1890-1950 - Samuel Ravengai'Don't talk into my talk': oral narratives, cultural identity & popular performance in colonial Uganda - Sam KasuleThe leaf & the soap: a story of appropriation & resistance - Cristina BoscoloThe representation of Khoisan characters in early Dutch-Afrikaans dramas in South Africa - Marisa KeurisImages of Africa in early twentieth-century British theatre - Steve NicholsonThe First African Play: Tekle Hawariat's Fabula: Yawreoch Commedia & its influence on the development of Ethiopian theatre - Jane PlastowPlayscript: Tekle Hawariat's Fabula: Yawreoch Commedia (The Comedy of Animals) translated from the Amharic by Belayneh AbunehBook Reviews

A most welcome addition to the African Theatre series as it updates and significantly expands on the scant literature that currently exists on the subject of African theatre history.

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. Yvette Hutchison is Associate Professor, Department of Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Warwick. CHRISTINE MATZKE, Lecturer in African Literatures and Cultures, Humboldt-University, Berlin. Jane Plastow is Professor of African Theatre, University of Leeds. Yvette Hutchison is Associate Professor, Department of Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Warwick.

• Introduction - Yvette HutchisonLooking for 'Eritrea's past property' (1947): archives & memories in Eritrean theatre historiography - Christine MatzkeSeeking the Founding Father: the story of Kobina Sekyi's The Blinkards (1916) - James GibbsMedieval morality & liturgical drama in colonial Rhodesia: early Christian martyrs dramatized - Owen SedaContesting constructions of cultural production in & through urban theatre in Rhodesia, c.1890-1950 - Samuel Ravengai'Don't talk into my talk': oral narratives, cultural identity & popular performance in colonial Uganda - Sam KasuleThe leaf & the soap: a story of appropriation & resistance - Cristina BoscoloThe representation of Khoisan characters in early Dutch-Afrikaans dramas in South Africa - Marisa KeurisImages of Africa in early twentieth-century British theatre - Steve NicholsonThe First African Play: Tekle Hawariat's Fabula: Yawreoch Commedia & its influence on the development of Ethiopian theatre - Jane PlastowPlayscript: Tekle Hawariat's Fabula: Yawreoch Commedia (The Comedy of Animals) translated from the Amharic by Belayneh AbunehBook Reviews

A most welcome addition to the African Theatre series as it updates and significantly expands on the scant literature that currently exists on the subject of African theatre history.