Yorùbá Performance, Theatre And Politics: Staging Resistance

This book explains the connections between traditional performance (e.g. masked dances, prophecy, praise recitations), contemporary theatre (Wole Soyinka, Ola Rotimi, Tess Onwueme, Femi Osofisan, and Stella Oyedepo) , and the political sphere in the context of the Yorùbá people in Nigeria.

• | Author: Glenn Odom
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Aug 04, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 173 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1137492783
• | ISBN-13: 9781137492784