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African Performance Arts and Political Actspresents innovative formulations for how African performance and the arts shape the narratives of cultural history an
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Explores how performance arts, whether staged or in daily life, regularly interface with political action across the African continent
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Fifteen writers explore the experimental, interdisciplinary and radically transgressive field of contemporary live art in South Africa, focusing on a wide range
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The jali--a member of a hereditary group of Mandinka professional performers--is a charismatic but contradictory figure. He is at once the repository of his peo