PENMIND MEDIA & CREATIVITY

    If one ponders on the affairs of this nation, the heart is not enough to hold the tsuris of the country. Many challenges come our way but we all role it like a morsel in our mouth, without looking for the solution on how to tackle it, instead we fight for our pocket and forget our trousers. While looking inwardly on the condition of this country, I discover that poverty tribalism, bad leadership are one of the hindrances that serve as architect to underdevelopment of our nation. But there is need for changes, who will baptize this nation?        We encounter many challenges in this country and one of them is poverty. Poverty grows everyday in our country like a plantain nurtured at the bank of the river. Every family in the country witness in different perspectives, therefore one has to leave home at first cockcrow to look for what the family will eat for the day. This includes men and women; one will be surprised sometimes when you see ...

African drama and theatre started to emerge in Africa continent when British came to make their affairs of life imposed on Africans. They came with ideas; religion, education, business transaction, making Africa a raw material place where their solid land was built up by it. Through this, African lifestyle changed and wore another garment because of the predicament at the advent of British. Though Africans had their normal dramatization (in form of folklore), their experiences for the coming of British always feature in the African drama and theatre that was inherited from Europeans. The origin of African drama and theatre based on traditional, history, and contemporary dramatic forms in Africa which range from sacred or ritual performances to dramatized storytelling, literary drama, or modern fusion of scripted theatre with traditional performance techniques. The diversity in performances is as a result of massive spread of cultures and traditions in each country. A lot of t...