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| Featuring a Visiting Professor | |
| Dr. Mohamud Bhadmus Wumi, Associate Professor Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria. Dr. Bhadmus is a visiting associate professor of theatre and drama from Bayero University, Kano-Nigeria. His interests include reading established dramatists and plays against the grain and finding new meanigs and interpretations for established theatre and drama traditions. Dr. Bhadmus will be teaching a course titled "Studies in African Drama and Theatre" during the 1st session of this summer. This course will offer students an overview of origin, growth and developments of African Drama and Theatre using concepts such as mimesis, ritual, substitution and theatrical antecedents from across the continents as illustrations and pivots of the discussion. This, as the first module of the course, will serve as the introductory and background lecture for the course. |
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| The role and impact of religions on African Drama and Theatre shall be the focus of discussion in the second module. Trends and patterns in African Drama and Theatre will be examined, preparatory to discussions of selected African plays and African playwrights in subsequent modules for the course Theatre is specifically added to transcend the tradition of discussing African drama as an exclusive academic practice as opposed to it being a more vibrant mode of representation, pedagogy and recreation, thriving on the streets, marketplaces, beer parlour, churches, mosques, palaces and as films, home videos and radio drama. I intend to do a teaching of African Drama and Theatre against the grain of the established canons and tradition. |
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SUMMER COURSES OPPORTUNITIES
Please see the Announcements page for full course descriptions.