African Theatre Association

The African Theatre Association is an international non-profit society open to scholars and practitioners of African performance and theatre. Its primary aim, through its annual conference, is to be a forum for the exploration of African performance and theatre processes. It intends to serve as a bridge between African theatre practices and scholarship in Africa and the African Diaspora, by bringing academics and theatre-makers together. The Association will initiate and lead discussions on African performance theory and practice. Its journal, African Performance Review, will help define and shape African performance and theatre scholarship and pedagogy by liberating them from a bondage to non-African discursive frameworks.

• New Directions in African Theatre and Performance (Annual International Conference, 30 July - 2 August 2009)
• Critical Perspectives on African Theatre and Performance (30 August - 1 Sept 2007)
• Inaugural Symposium on Women in African Performance and Theatre (April 2006)
• African Performance Review journal [PDF]
• AfTA membership form [PDF]
• AFTA constitution
  

AfTA Executive Officers

President: Dr Osita Okagbue Goldsmiths College, University of London
General Secretary: Dr Victor Ukaegbu University of Northampton
Treasurer: Dr Jumai Ewu University of Northampton
Membership Secretary: Sola Adeyemi University of Leeds

Members of the Executive Board

Dr Frances Harding SOAS University of London
Dr Sam Kasule University of Derby
Ms Marcia Hewitt Collective Artistes, London
Dr Dipo Agboluaje, London

Contact AfTA: email AfTA@gold.ac.uk.