Community in Motion: Theatre for Development in Africa (Critical Studies in Education and Culture Series) - Hardcover

Byam, L. Dale

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0897895819 ISBN 13: 9780897895811

Publisher: Praeger, 1999

Africa has internal cultural resources that have positively influenced its development. Community in Motion explores the relationship between theatre and Freirian pedagogy. It underscores the urgency of refocusing development strategies on human rather than technical resources by showing how culture has traditionally played an important role in African development, and demonstrates the similarities between traditional African cultural paradigms and Freirian pedagogy.

The author describes selected significant Theatre for Development programs in diverse parts of Africa and determines the extent that these programs find congruence with the teachings of Paulo Freire. Case studies of Botswana, Zambia, Nigeria, and Kenya explore in detail the ongoing work in Zimbabwe, specifically the Zimbabwe Association of Community Theatre (ZACT). ZACT's work is analyzed in the context of Freirian pedagogy in order to highlight the development of a community-based theatre operation that is national in its scope and international in its influences.

Book Description:

A detailed account of the only community theatre network in Africa that is run by grassroots artists on a national and international scale.

About the Author:

L. DALE BYAM teaches Dramatic Arts at New York University and is an Educational Consultant for a number of education theatre firms and an international development agency./e

• Publisher: Praeger
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0897895819
• ISBN 13: 9780897895811
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240