Book Description
This third volume in the annual African Theatre series focuses on women in theatre and performance in Africa. Topics include the role of female goddesses in Egyptian theatre, early urban women performers in Asmara, Eritrea, an interview with Ghanaian concert party actress Adeline Ama Buabeng, and women's theatre and performance in Algeria, Kenya, Uganda, and Nigeria.


About the Author
About the guest editor: Jane Plastow is Drama Lecturer at the University of Leeds. She is author of African Theatre and Politics and co- editor of Theatre Matters: Performance and Culture on the World Stage and Contemporary African Plays by Wole Soyinka and Ama Ataa Aidoo. Martin Banham is Emeritus Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds. He is editor of The Cambridge Guide to Theatre and co- editor of The Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean Theatre. James Gibbs teaches at the University of the West of England in Bristol and has a particular interest in Ghanaian, Nigerian, and Malawian theatre. Femi Osofisan is a playwright who also teaches in the Department of Theatre Arts, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This third volume in the annual African Theatre series focuses on women in theatre and performance in Africa. Topics include the role of female goddesses in Egyptian theatre, early urban women performers in Asmara, Eritrea, an interview with Ghanaian concert party actress Adeline Ama Buabeng, and women's theatre and performance in Algeria, Kenya, Uganda, and Nigeria.