Routledge Handbook of African Theatre and Performance

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<p><i>The Routledge Handbook of African Theatre and Performance</i> brings together the very latest international research on the performing arts across the continent and the diaspora into one expansive and wide-ranging collection.</p><p>The book offers readers a compelling journey through the different ideas, people and practices that have shaped African theatre and performance, from pre-colonial and colonial times, right through to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Resolutely Pan-African and international in its coverage, the book draws on the expertise of a wide range of Africanist scholars and also showcases the voices of performers and theatre practitioners working on the cutting-edge of African theatre and performance practice. Contributors aim to answer some of the big questions about the content (nature, form) and context (processes, practice) of theatre, whilst also painting a pluralistic and complex picture of the diversity of cultural, political and artistic