caa a22 4500 386363625 CHVBK 20180307111925.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198905 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0266464X00003043 doi S0266464X00003043 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0266464X00003043 Lakoju Tunde Literary Drama in Africa: the Disabled Comrade [Elektronische Daten] [Tunde Lakoju] NTQ has given considerable coverage to forms of popular theatre for conscientization and development in the so-called Third World. By contrast with such community-oriented, audience-involving activities, is there a function for conventional ‘literary' drama, on the western model, which can probably only reach relatively comfortable and literate middle-class audiences? Tunde Lakoju examines two such plays - I Will Marry When I Want by the Kenyan playwright Ngugi Wa Thiongo (London: Heinemann, 1982), and The Trials of Brother Jero by the Nigerian dramatist Wole Soyinka (Oxford University Press, 1964) - in terms of their success in measuring up to the needs they identify: and he considers, too, how those ‘needs' may be variously assessed by theoretical and practical criteria. Tunde Lakoju is Senior Lecturer at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, in his native Nigeria, having been awarded his doctoral degree from the University of Wales. His own play, The Last Saturday, has been broadcast in the BBC's African Theatre series. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 New Theatre Quarterly Cambridge University Press 5/18(1989-05), 152-161 0266-464X 5:18<152 1989 5 NTQ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X00003043 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X00003043 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Lakoju Tunde NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- New Theatre Quarterly Cambridge University Press 5/18(1989-05), 152-161 0266-464X 5:18<152 1989 5 NTQ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge