African Drama and Performance ( A Research in African Literatures Book Series) Book

	Introduction	1
1	King Baabu and the renaissance vision	11
2	Dimensions of theatricality in Africa	24
3	Theatre and anthropology, theatricality and culture	39
4	Pre-texts and intermedia : African theatre and the question of history	46
5	Soyinka, Euripides, and the anxiety of empire	55
6	Antigone in the "land of the incorruptible" : Sylvain Bemba's Noces posthumes de Santigone (black wedding candles for blessed Antigone)	78
7	Gestural interpretation of the occult in the Bin Kadi-so adaptation of Macbeth	88
8	Yoruba Gods on the American stage : August Wilson's Joe Turner's come and gone	94
9	Ferni Osofisan : the form of uncommon sense	109
10	Revolution and recidivism : the problem of Kenyan history in the plays of Ngugi wa Thiong'o	126
11	The politics of theatre of Sony Labou Tansi	144
12	Theatre for development and TV nation : notes on educational soap opera in South Africa	155
13	Literacy, improvisation, and the virtual script in Yoruba popular theatre	176
14	"How they see it" : the politics and aesthetics of Nigerian video films	189
15	Modernity's trickster : "dipping" and "throwing" in Congolese popular dance music	198
16	Theatres of truth, acts of reconciliation : the TRC in South Africa	219
17	The Turner-Schechner model of performance as social drama : a reexamination in light of Anlo-Ewe Halo	227
18	Theatricality and social mimodrama	238