CAMPUS ASSOCIATION OF POETS' ANTHOLOGY
CAMPUS ASSOCIATION OF
POETS'
ANTHOLOGY
THEMED: PUNCHEON; An
Appraisal To Poetry
In Respect of
THE WORLD POETRY DAY.
The origin of African Drama and Theatre with Salient Elements from Selected Plays by Olaniyi Abdulwaheed
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...
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