African Performance Arts and Political Actspresents innovative formulations for how African performance and the arts shape the narratives of cultural history an

Explores how performance arts, whether staged or in daily life, regularly interface with political action across the African continent

Fifteen writers explore the experimental, interdisciplinary and radically transgressive field of contemporary live art in South Africa, focusing on a wide range

Jay Pather, Performance and Spatial Politics in South Africa offers the first full-length monograph on the award-winning choreographer, theater director, curato

The jali--a member of a hereditary group of Mandinka professional performers--is a charismatic but contradictory figure. He is at once the repository of his peo