Popular Theatre and Development‐Challenges for the Future: The Tanzanian Experience
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2002
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Taylor and Francis
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Popular Theatre or Theatre for Development created much excitement in
the 1970s and 1980s. Theatre practitioners all over Africa were attracted by
the potential in Popular Theatre to effect qualitative grassroots participation
in the development process. Various versions of Popular Theatre were put
into practice in the rural areas of Nigeria, Cameroon, Sierra Leone,
Swaziland, Lesotho, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Tanzania.
These practices have been extensively documented in a number of studies
including Kidd (1979), Kamlongera (1987), Eyoh (1986,1991), Kerr (1981),
Mlama (1991), Abah (1994), Bakari and Materego (1995).
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Mlama, P., 2002. Popular theatre and development‐challenges for the future: The Tanzanian experience. Contemporary Theatre Review, 12(1-2), pp.45-58.