Mobilizing the hordes : radio drama as development theatre in Sub-Saharan Africa / Victor N. Gomia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gomia, Victor N.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radio plays.

Theater in community development--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Theater in community development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Place of Publication:

Mankon, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book draws on years of rich empirical research on radio drama production in Cameroon to offer a strikingly new perspective in Development Theatre discourse in Africa. Chronicling the history and evolution of Development Theatre practice in Anglophone Africa and arguing for literary forms that address the basic everyday realities of ordinary people in a medium they understand, the book revisits the crucial question of utilitarian literature in a continent that continues to brandish a begging bowl even as it celebrates fifty years of independence. Radio Theatreís inherent latitude to reach

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; List of Abbreviations; Chapter One. Alternative Development Theatre; Chapter Two. Theoretical Basis and Critical Focus; Chapter Three Development Theatre: Progress, Impediments and an Alternative Approach; Chapter Four African Radio Drama as Theatre for the Multitude; Chapter Five. Radio Theatre Aesthetics: Engineering Development Initiatives on the Air; Chapter Six Development Discourse in Selected Cameroon Anglophone Radio Plays; Conclusion; Bibliography; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789956727933

9956727938

9789956727919

9956727911

OCLC:

830165950