OVERVIEW: In 2015, South African students protested exorbitant tuition fees, racial inequality at universities, and curriculums that failed to explore post-colonial South African culture. This page will explore the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s (UKZN) Shakespearean theater festival, #ShakespeareMustFall?, and the ensuing charge to portray Shakespearean drama through a modernized lens. InContinue reading
Category: Sub-Saharan Africa
Ghanaian Theater
“In Africa, performance is a primary arena for the production of knowledge. It is where philosophy is enacted and where multiple and often simultaneous discourses are employed.“ “In addition, performance is a means by which people reflect on their current condition, define or reinvent themselves and their social world andContinue reading
South African Gumboot Dance
OVERVIEW: Disenfranchised miners in South Africa developed the gumboot dance as a way to communicate with each other underground, where the mine bosses had banned oral communication. THE MAGIC’S IN THE BOOTS: The Story of Gumboot Dance and Other Forms of Liberation & Protest Dance in South Africa A Global EngagementsContinue reading