African Drama and Performance

African Drama and Performance is a collection of innovative and
wide-ranging essays that bring conceptually fresh perspectives, from both renowned
and emerging voices, to the study of drama, theatre, and performance in Africa.
Topics range from studies of major dramatic authors and formal literary dramas to
improvisational theatre and popular video films. South Africa's Truth and
Reconciliation Commissions are analyzed as a kind of social performance, and aspects
of African performance in the diaspora are also considered. This dynamic volume
underscores theatre's role in postcolonial society and politics and reexamines
performance as a form of high art and everyday social
ritual.

Contributors are Akin Adesokan, Daniel Avorgbedor, Karin
Barber, Nicholas Brown, Catherine Cole, John Conteh-Morgan, Johannes Fabian, Joachim
Fiebach, Marie-José Hourantier, Loren Kruger, Pius Ngandu Nkashama, Isidore
Okpewho, Tejumola Olaniyan, Ato Quayson, Sandra L. Richards, Wole Soyinka, Dominic
Thomas, and Bob W. White.