Fall Term

September 12, 2006
African Drama: An introduction
The dramatists; Sources; Genres; Trends; Bearing to the other genres and arts; Periodizing African drama; Critical Issues and Debates.

• Read Jeyifo, “Introduction” to Modern African Drama:  Authoritative Texts, Background and Criticism

September 19
Al-Hakim, Fate of a Cockroach, in Modern African Drama

September 26
Yacine, Intelligence Powder

October 3
Wa Thiong’o and Wa Mirii, I Will Marry when I Want

October 10
Osofisan, Esu and the Vagabond Minstrels

• Guest Speaker

October 17
Gabre-Medhin, Collision of Altars

October 24
Aidoo, The Dilemma of a Ghost & Anowa

October 31
Fugard, Kani and Ntshona, Sizwe Bansi is Dead

November 7
Junction Avenue Theatre, Sophiatown, in Drama for a New South Africa

• Read Graver, “Introduction,” Drama for a New South Africa

November 14
Mda, And the Girls in Their Sunday Dresses

November 21
De Wet, Crossings

November 28
Mahomed, Purdah

Winter Term

Jan 9, 2007
Bailey, Ipi Zombi

Jan 16
Soyinka, The Bacchae of Euripedes

Jan 23
Soyinka, The two Jero plays

Jan 30
Soyinka, King Baabu

Feb 6
Fugard, Boesman and Lena

• Guest Speaker

Reading week Feb 12- 16

Feb 20
Fugard, Road to Mecca

Feb 27
Fugard, Sorrows and Rejoicing

March 6
Sutherland, The Marriage of Anansewa

March 13
Onwueme, The Broken Calabash, in Three Plays

Mar 20
Onwueme, Wazobia

• The film version will be discussed as well

March 27
Slabolepsy, Mooi Street Moves

April 3:
Nicholas Ellenbogen, Horn of Sorrow, in Drama for a New South Africa
Contemporary African Drama: Retrospective and Prospective