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Culture and Development: The Popular Theatre Approach in Africa

1992; Boston University; Volume: 25; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/219042

2326-3016

Nancy J. Schmidt, Penina Mlama,

African history and culture studies

Popular Theatre movement in Africa is a response to a history that has undermined people's genuine participation in the development process. With these words Penina Mlama opens the exciting survey in this book of different attempts at creating a truly Popular Theatre in the third World in general, and in Africa in particular. The author who is a writer and academic in Tanzania draws heavily on her own involvement in this cultural-political movement.