The fate of a cockroach / Tawfik al-Hakim
Intelligence powder / Kateb Yacine
Sizwe Bansi is dead / Athol Fugard, John Kani & Winston Nthsona
Death and the king's horseman / Wole Soyinka
Collision of altars / Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin
The dilemma of a ghost / Ama Ata Aidoo
I will marry when I want / Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Ngugi wa Mirii
Esu and the vagabond minstrels / Femi Osofisan.
Backgrounds and criticism
On national culture / Frantz Fanon
Theatre in African traditional cultures: survival patterns / Wole Soyinka
Enactments of power: the politics of performance space / Ngugi wa Thiong'o
The reinvention of theatrical tradition / Biodun Jeyifo
African theatre in a global context / Don Rubin
Dimensions of theatricality in Africa / Joachim Fiebach
Art as tool, weapon or shield? : arts for development seminar, Harare / David Kerr
Trends in the drama of Tawfik al-Hakim / Paul Starkey
Introduction to "Fate of a cockroach" and other plays / Denys Johnson-Davies
Philosophical and psychological themes in Fate of a cockroach / Richard Long
The theatrical carnivalesque in Intelligence powder / Bernard Aresu
Populist aesthetics and idioms in Kateb Yacine's theatre / Jacqueline Kaye and Abdelhamid Zoubir
The pragmatics and aesthetics of Kateb Yacine's theatre practice / Kamal Salhi.
Introduction to Statements / Athol Fugard
"Robert Zwelinzima is alive" / Russell Vandenbroucke
Artistic ambivalence in Sizwe Bansi is dead / Hilary Seymour
The Statements plays / Dennis Walder
Author's note to Death and the King's horseman / Wole Soyinka
Towards a true theatre / Wole Soyinka
The fox's dance : the staging of Soyinka's plays / Annemarie Heywood
Cultural death and the King's horseman / Adebayo Williams
Tribute to Wole Soyinka / Michael Etherton
Author's note to Collision of altars / Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin
Collision of altars : notes on history / Richard Pankhurst
Art and ideology in the plays of Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin / Biodun Jeyifo
Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin and Ethiopian reformist theatre / Jane Plastow
Oral tradition in Dilemma of a ghost / Lloyd W. Brown
Motherhood in Ama Ata Aidoo's plays / C.L. Innes
A bird of the Wayside sings / Vincent O. Odamtten
Women in cultural work : the fate of the Kamĩrĩĩthũ people's theatre in Kenya / Ngugi wa Thiong'o
I will marry when I want / Oliver Lovesey
Formal strategies and social commentary in his plays / Femi Osofisan
Hegemony rests with the audience / Sandra Richards
Form, content, and context in Femi Osofisan's drama / Abiola Irele
The theatre of Femi Osofisan / Chris Dunton
African drama : a chronology.
