Exploring Classic African Plays
Reading
- Death and The King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka (Methuen Drama, 1975)
- Anowa by Ama Ata Aidoo (Prentice Hall Press, 1970)
- A Season in the Congo by Aime Cesaire (Seagull Books, 1966)
- And The Girls in Their Sunday Dresses by Zakes MdaWits (University Press, 1988)
- Kwa-Landlady by Magi Noninzi Williams (Routledge, 1993)
- The Black Hermit by Ngugi wa Thiong’o (Heinemann, 1962)
Audio
Articles
- 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)
Introducing African Diaspora Performance
Reading suggestions provided by Patrice Naiambana
Reading
- 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
Articles
Articles
Various Creative Hub Resources
Reading
- 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)
Audio
Articles
Video
- Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From, Ask Where I’m Local by Taiye Selasi (Ted Talk, 2014)
- My Name Is Kwame Documentary on Young Vic Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah (BBC, 2020)
- Stella Chiweshe: The Speech Zimbabwe’s mbira queen makes a speech (2009)
- How To Act ‘Realistically’ with Acting Coach John Windsor-Cunningham (2013)