Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. King Baabu and the Renaissance Vision -- 2. Dimensions of Theatricality in Africa -- 3. Theatre and Anthropology, Theatricality and Culture -- 4. Pre-Texts and Intermedia: African Theatre and the Question of History -- 5. Soyinka, Euripides, and the Anxiety of Empire -- 6. Antigone in the "Land of the Incorruptible": Sylvain Bemba's Noces posthumes de Santigone (Black Wedding Candles for Blessed Antigone) -- 7. Gestural Interpretation of the Occult in the Bin Kadi-SoAdaptation of Macbeth -- 8. Yoruba Gods on the American Stage: August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone -- 9. Femi Oso¤san: The Form of Uncommon Sense -- 10. Revolution and Recidivism: The Problem of Kenyan History in the Plays of Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- 11. The Politics and Theatre of Sony Labou Tansi -- 12. Theatre for Development and TV Nation: Notes on Educational Soap Opera in South Africa -- 13. Literacy, Improvisation, and the Virtual Script in Yoruba Popular Theatre -- 14. "How They See It": The Politics and Aesthetics of Nigerian Video Films -- 15. Modernity's Trickster: "Dipping" and "Throwing" in Congolese Popular Dance Music -- 16. Theatres of Truth, Acts of Reconciliation: The TRC in South Africa -- 17. The Turner-Schechner Model of Performance as Social Drama: A Reexamination in Light of Anlo-Ewe Haló -- 18. Theatricality and Social Mimodrama -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.