Theatre for development in Africa historical and institutional perspectives edited by Christopher B. Balme and Abdul Karim Hakib

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Balme, Christopher 1957- Editor.

Hakib, Abdul Karim 1982- Editor.

Series:

Open publishing LMU

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 Online-Ressource (274 Seiten)

Place of Publication:

München Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 2023

Summary:

Papers of a conference planned to take place from 16–20 March 2020 in Pretoria, South Africa, as a joint effort of the Department of Theatre Studies, LMU Munich and the Faculty of Arts and Design, Tshwane University of Technology, organized under the auspices of the European Research Council-funded project ‘Developing Theatre: Building Expert Networks for Teatre in Emerging Countries after 1945’.

Contents:

Introduction / Christopher Balme and Abdul Karim Hakib.

part I. Globalized concept, conceptual framings and the development of networks. From theatre for development to theatre as development / Tim Prentki

Disrupting the performance in the evolutionary journey(s) of theatre for development in Africa / Oga Steve Abah

Theatre for development in Africa : the quest for empowerment of grassroots communities for critical participation in development processes / Penina Oniviel Mlama

Theatre for development within and outside academic : critical reflections from experiences / Selina Banda and Daniel L. Mpolomoka

Transnational networks of the Theatre of the Oppressed : exchanges and institutionalization of a circulating method / Clara de Andrade

Back to the grassroots : the global-historical frameworks of theatre for development as an organizational field / Christopher Balme.

part II. Country-specific case studies. Theatre for development in Ghana : influences, contexts and changing narratives / Abdul Karim Hakib

History and evolution of theatre for development in Cameroon : implications for formal and non-formal institutions / Emelda Ngufor Samba

A typology of theatre for development in Ghana / Victor K. Yankah

Theatre for development practice in south-south Nigeria (1990 to the present) / Ofonime Inyang and Idaresit Inyang

Theatre for development, community development and tertiary institutions in Nigeria / Abel Idebe

Impact assessment of theatre for development (TfD) academic practice in the Niger-Benue Valley of Nigeria, 1993-2013 / Sunday Ogbu Igbaba

A situational analysis of theatre for development in Tanzania / Daines Nicodem Sanga.

Other Format:

Erscheint auch als Theatre for development in Africa

Publisher Number:

urn urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-93602-1

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access