African Theatre 13: Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Wole Soyinka (EPDF) von Martin Banham

Directors and collaborators assess and comment on the production of plays by West Africa's Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka and East Africa's most influential author Ngugi wa Thiong'o.

Editors' Introduction - Martin Banham and Femi Osofisan and James Gibbs
Reading & performing African drama: how Wole Soyinka & Ngugi wa Thiong'o influenced my work - David Kerr
Ayan contra Ujamaa: Soyinka & Ngugi as theatre theorists - Biodun Jeyifo
ENCOUNTERS WITH SOYINKA: I Working with Wole Soyinka - Tunji Oyelana and Sola Adeyemi
II The difficulties of a neophyte staging Wole Soyinka'sThe Beatification of Area Boy - Tunde Onikoyi
III Pentecostalizing Soyinka'sThe Trials of Brother Jero - Bisi Adigun
IVThe Lion & the Jewel in Mombasa - Silviah Namussasi
ENCOUNTERS WITH NGUGI: I Choru wa Muiruri: reflections on the Kamiriithu Experience - Mugo Muhia
II ProducingI Will Marry When I Want in South Africa - Fredrick Mbogo
III Ngugi wa Thiong'o: the unrecognized Black Hermit - Oby Obyerodhyambo
IV Kamiriithu in retrospect - Gichingiri Ndigirigi
Wole Soyinka & Ngugi wa Thiong'o: plays in production - James Gibbs and Mugo Muhia
The making ofThe Trial of Dedan Kimathiby Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Micere Githae Mugo at the University of California, Irvine: a personal reflection - Ketu H. Katrak
Playscript:A Rain of Stones. A previously unpublished radio play by Wole Soyinka - Wole Soyinka
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