REVIEW:
'African Theatre is a series that seeks to fill a void, fusing on often overlooked but vigorous developments and ongoing scholarship and performance in this big field. ...Neophytes to contemporary African theatre will come away from this book with a sound basis for further investigation.' - Femi Euba, Louisiana State University '...the real value of this volume is that it provides a text in English of Toufan...Dev Virahsawmy's gem of a play and the editors must be congratulated for affording the reader this pleasure.' - Alan Shelley in the Journal of Modern African Studies 'The medicine of theatre in Sudan, Cameroon, Mauritius, Ghana and Nigeria, though delivered in tiny homeopathic doses to vast bodies politic, may be life- or spirit-saving... Old themes come in guises so new you feel like a first-time visitor to a weirdly familiar but mad planet. Playwrights condense, whether writing plays or articles, and this book offers many readable potted histories - an analytic, provocative intellectual's guide to some aspects of current Africa.' - Rob Amato in Mail & Guardian