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The Samaru Projects: Street Theatre in Northern Nigeria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2009

Oga S. Abah  and
Michael Etherton
Oga S. Abah
Affiliation:
Drama Section of the Dept. of English, Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria.
Michael Etherton
Affiliation:
Drama Section of the Dept. of English, Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria.
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Theatre Research International , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1982 , pp. 222 - 234
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1982

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References

Notes

1. See especially Clark, Ebun, 1979, Hubert Ogunde: the making of Nigerian Theatre, London: Oxford University PressGoogle Scholar. We await a study, by ‘Tunde Lakoju, of the career and art of Moses Olaiya Adejumo, alias Baba Sala, and his Alawada Theatre of Nigeria – Ogunde's successor in popularity.

2. Examples of this have been, from time to time, the Guinée national corp de ballet; the Zambian National Dance Troupe; and, most recently, the Nigerian National Theatre which has become embroiled in a controversy over a new play which it commissioned from the popular playwright Ola Rotimi, and then had the government withdraw the commission.

3. An obvious exception is some of the Black Consciousness theatre in South Africa: see Kavanagh, Robert Mshengu, editor, 1981, South African People's Plays, London: Heinemann Educational BooksGoogle Scholar. See also some of the popular drama of the Kamirithru Adult Education Centre, Kenya, with which the writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been associated.

4. The work of the peasant organisation PROSHIKA in Bangladesh is highly significant. For other examples see Ross Kidd, ‘The Popular Performing Arts and Social Change in India: three case studies’, in the Report on the Berlin Seminar on The Use of Indigenous Social Structures and Traditional Media in Non-Formal Education and Development, 1981, Deutsche Stiftung für internationale Entwicklung, Bonn. Also Leis, Raul, ‘The Popular Theatre and Development in Latin America’, in Educational Broadcasting International, 1979, 12 (1), pp. 10–13.Google Scholar

5. See, for example, Freire, Paulo, 1972, Cultural Action for Freedom, Harmondsworth: Penguin; pp. 67 et seq.Google Scholar

6. Kasoma, Kabwe, ‘Theatre and Development’, presented at an International Workshop on Communication for Social Development, Lusaka, Zambia, 04/05 1974.Google Scholar

7. See Bappa, Salihu, ‘The Maska Project: drama work for Adult Educators’, in Convergence, 1981, XIV (2)Google Scholar. [First published in Work in Progress 3, 1980Google Scholar, Department of English, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria.]

8. See particularly Stella Oyesile and Murphy, Margaret, ‘A social rehabilitation programme for patients suffering from vesico-vaginal fistulae at A.B.U. Hospital, Zaria’, in Savanna, 12 1976, 5 (2); pp. 185–8.Google Scholar