African Theatre and Performance Resources

Encyclopedia.com Entry on Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka
SuperSummary Study Guide for Anowa by Ama Ata Aidoo
SuperSummary Study Guide for A Season In The Congo by Aime Cesaire
A Season in the Congo: Remembering Lumumba and Cesaire by Anita Franklin (First of the Month, 2013)
Review of And The Girls in Their Sunday Dresses by Zakes Mda (Afrovibes Festival, 2012)
Brittannia.com Entry on Playwright Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Male Violence against Women and Hybrid Identities in Post-Apartheid South African Black Theatre by Olga Barrios (International Journal of Arts, 2012)

Reading suggestions provided by Patrice Naiambana

African Rhythm and African Sensibility – Aesthetics And Social Action in African Musical Idioms by John Miller Chernoff (University of Chicago Press, 1979)
Africa on The Contemporary London Stage Edited by Tizianna Morosetti (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
Black Skins White Masks by Franz Fanon (Pluto Press, 2008)
The Darker Side of Western Modernity – Global Futures, Decolonial Options by Professor Walter D. Mignolo (Duke University Press, 2011)
A History of Theatre in Africa by Martin Banham (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
Insurgent Empire – Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent by Priyanmvada Topal (Verso, 2019)
Leaping out of Shakespeare’s Terror: Five Meditations on Othello by Ben Okri (Phoenix Press, 1997)
Shakespeare, Race and Colonialism by Ania Loomba (Oxford University Press, 2003)
Trends in 21st Century African Theatre and Performance edited by Kene Igweonu (Rodopi, 2011)
Yurugu: An African-Centred Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behaviour by Marimba Ani (Africa Research & Publications, 1995)
Recent Work by Akala, Afua Hirsch and David Olusologa

Theatre of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal (Pluto Press, 4th Ed. 2019)
Theatre Games for the Lone Actor by Viola Spolin (Northwestern University Press, 2001)
Actions: The Actors Thesaurus by Marina Caladrone (Drama Pub 2004)