Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Obituary of Efo Kodjo Mawugbe
- Introduction by James Gibbs
- Festivals as a Strategy for the Development of Theatre in Zimbabwe 1980–2010
- The Legacy of Festac '77
- Festac, Month by Month & Soyinka's Involvement
- The Dakar Festivals of 1966 & 2010
- African Renaissance between Rhetoric 30 & the Aesthetics of Extravagance FESMAN 2010 – Entrapped in Textuality
- Theatre Programme for FESMAN & Commentary
- The Pan-African Historical Theatre Festival (PANAFEST) in Ghana, 1992–2010
- PANAFEST through the Headlines
- International Festivals & Transnational Theatre Circuits in Egypt, 1988–2010
- The Jos Theatre Festival 2004–2011
- The Grahamstown Festival & the Making of a Dramatist An interview with ANDREW BUCKLAND
- Playscript
- Book Reviews
PANAFEST through the Headlines
An annotated bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Obituary of Efo Kodjo Mawugbe
- Introduction by James Gibbs
- Festivals as a Strategy for the Development of Theatre in Zimbabwe 1980–2010
- The Legacy of Festac '77
- Festac, Month by Month & Soyinka's Involvement
- The Dakar Festivals of 1966 & 2010
- African Renaissance between Rhetoric 30 & the Aesthetics of Extravagance FESMAN 2010 – Entrapped in Textuality
- Theatre Programme for FESMAN & Commentary
- The Pan-African Historical Theatre Festival (PANAFEST) in Ghana, 1992–2010
- PANAFEST through the Headlines
- International Festivals & Transnational Theatre Circuits in Egypt, 1988–2010
- The Jos Theatre Festival 2004–2011
- The Grahamstown Festival & the Making of a Dramatist An interview with ANDREW BUCKLAND
- Playscript
- Book Reviews
Summary
Introduction
The following annotated list of entries about the Festival offers an approach to preparing a history of PANAFEST that complements and extends Victor Yankah's analysis. By way of pre-amble, the dates of the editions of the festival may be noted:
2-19 December 1992
9-18 December 1994
29 August - 7 September 1997
30 July - 8 August 1999
27 July - 3 August 2001
24 July - 1 August 2003
21 July - 1 August 2005
22 July - 1 August 2007
16 July 2009
23 July - 1 August 2011
The earlier part of the bibliography from which these entries have been extracted is available on-line from the Jahn Library for African Literatures at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) I am grateful to Dr Anja Oed who has made on-line access possible. See http://www.jahn-bibliothek.ifeas.unimainz.de
[1980]
Sutherland, Efua. ‘A Proposal for an Historical Drama Festival in Cape Coast’, paper presented to the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. In 1991, this was expanded into plans for PANAFEST, a Pan- African Historical Theatre Festival, first held 1992.
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- African Theatre 11: Festivals , pp. 56 - 67Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2012