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Shakespeare in townships in south africa12/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() These various impositions were taken up by native Africans with varying levels of emotion, shaping life in Anglophone Africa in ways the British might have imagined would last forever. This podcast is called “I Speak of Africa.” When the British came to colonize the African continent in the middle of the 1800s, they brought many staples of Victorian England among with them, including rigid class hierarchies, boarding schools, the Anglican Church, and Shakespeare. I’m Michael Witmore, the Folger’s director. MICHAEL WITMORE: From the Folger Shakespeare Library, this is Shakespeare Unlimited. Previous: Creating Shakespeare’s First Folio | Next: Shakespeare and Religion We had help with recording from Gareth Dant at the University of Leeds, independent producer George Lavender, Ray Andrewsen at WQUN radio in Hamden, Connecticut, and Babatunde Ogunbajo at Midas Touch Studios in Ibadan, Nigeria. Thanks to Caleen Sinnette Jennings and David Schalkwyk and to Barbara Caldwell at UC-Irvine. It was edited by Gail Kern Paster and Esther Ferington. This episode, “I Speak of Africa,” was produced by Richard Paul. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is also interviewed in another Shakespeare Unlimited episode.įrom the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast series. Listen on iTunes, Google Play, SoundCloud, or NPR One. Also featured in this podcast episode are Nigerian playwright Femi Osofisan, Kenyan playwright and novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, and Tcho Caulker, a Sierra Leonean-American professor in the English Department at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. But after the British left power, it was often Shakespeare who leaders in African countries summoned to push back against the colonial experience - using his words to promote unity, elevate native languages, and critique the politics of the time.īarbara Bogaev interviews Jane Plastow, professor of African theater at the University of Leeds and co-editor of African Theatre 12: Shakespeare in and out of Africa. When the British came to colonize the African continent in the middle of the 1800s, they brought Shakespeare with them. ![]()
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