"The Popular Theatre movement in Africa is a response to a history that has undermined people's genuine participation in the development process." With these words Penina Mlama opens the exciting survey in this book of different attempts at creating a truly Popular Theatre in the third World in general, and in Africa in particular. The author who is a writer and academic in Tanzania draws heavily on her own involvement in this cultural-political movement.
Contents: 1. Culture and development -- 2. Theatre and development -- 3. Popular theatre in Latin America and Asia -- 4. The background to popular theatre in Africa -- 5. The popular theatre movement in Africa from the 1970s -- 6. The theatre in Tanzania -- 7. Malya Popular Theatre Project 1982-1983 -- 8. Bagamoyo Popular Theatre Workshop 1983 -- 9. Msoga popular Theatre Workshop 1985 -- 10. Mkambalani Popular Theatre Workshop 1986