Background: Youth with disabilities are a marginalised group in society. This marginalisation traps them and prevents their full participation in social and economic development. Objective: This study sought to understand how exposure to the Performing Arts facilitates the inclusion of youth with...

There has been a remarkable rise in the number of Afrikaans arts festivals in South Africa. The outcomes of such festivals, however, remain little understood, particularly concerning the arts festivals' contribution to the arts. The aim of this study is to determine the contribution of three...

This issue contains 5 articles, 2 interviews, and 10 book reviews on Southern African theatre. The first two articles deal with Angolan theatre and reveal different kinds of theatre, mainstream and community-based, to anglophone readers unfamiliar with lusophone African theatre. The third article...

The use of the performing arts -- drama, poetry, story-telling, puppetry, music, song, and dance -- for community education and development in Africa is an age-old tradition. In more recent times, however, the new "Popular theatre" movement, in places such as Botswana, Ghana, and the Northern parts ...

Contributing to discourses on cultural nationalism, the postcolonial African state, and national dance, this article explores the politics of "managing" culture in West Africa by showing how members of Ghana's two state dance ensembles mediate the surrounding disciplinary machinery to create...

Dance in the Republic of Guinea is an object of cultural transmission that magnifies the inherent contingency of social reproduction and the plasticity of the heirloom. Long connected to the vicissitudes of Guinean politics, dance was violently appropriated by the postindependence socialist state...

Dances and drum rhythms from African traditions have been integrated into summer camp activities in the United States as a response to the ever-globalized environments in which these camps are located and the diversity of the campers and teachers that they attract. This reflective article draws on...

The Matendera festival is a ceremony conducted annually to celebrate the intangible heritage of the Shona people of Buhera in eastern Zimbabwe, popularly known as the Vahera, through their native dances, traditional music and cuisine, and a marathon. The ceremony is hosted annually at Matendera, a...

When state support for the arts drained away after 1994, theatre in South Africa became a freelance industry and arts festivals proliferated. In the absence of permanent puppet theatres and with few theatre houses which present puppet shows on a regular basis, arts festivals with predominantly...

This ethnographical study tries to put in relation the artistic filiation, the body and the transmission of the knowledges. The rustic communities are submitted to a massive drift from the land, the people arrive in town with their cultures and their past. A large number of techniques and...