Atipo, Medaye, Sons and Old Age …continued from POST #10 by Olakunbi Olasope The fundamental importance of male children to a Greek man is similar to their importance to a … Read More
African BLOG TAKEOVER #11
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African BLOG TAKEOVER #10
Osofisan’s Medaye: Time and Setting …continued from POST #9 by Olakunbi Olasope “The play is set sometime in March 1862 in Yorubaland. The 19th century was a period of tumultuous … Read More
African BLOG TAKEOVER #9
Femi Osofisan’s Medaye in Ibadan by Olakunbi Olasope Prof. Olakunbi Olasope of the Department of Classics, University of Ibadan, Nigeria works on the reception of Greek and Roman theatre in West African drama, … Read More
African BLOG TAKEOVER #8
Digitising Performance as Practice Research by Jayne Batzofin On the 18th April 2021, a devastating wild fire swept across Cape Town’s Table Mountain. While no human lives were lost to … Read More
African BLOG TAKEOVER #7
Classical References in the Urban Landscape of Mozambique by Carla Bocchetti Carla Bocchetti has a PhD in Classics from the University of Warwick and is currently an associate member of … Read More
African BLOG TAKEOVER #6
But we are tyrants too. We look, but we see nothing. Someone speaks to us, but we hear nothing. And we go on in our endlessly narcissistic self-justification, adding Facebook … Read More
African BLOG TAKEOVER #5
by Prof. Mark Fleishman At the beginning of 2019, the University of Cape Town’s Centre for Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies (previously the department of Drama and the School of … Read More
African BLOG TAKEOVER #4
Continuing the conversation with Charlayn von Solms… SM: Your first main work using the poetics of Homer, A Catalogue of Shapes, was the subject of a dissertation for your PhD … Read More
African BLOG TAKEOVER #3
Homer in Cape Town: the sculptural assemblages of Charlayn von Solms In February’s African takeover blogs, I (Dr Samantha Masters, Stellenbosch University) speak to Charlayn von Solms, a contemporary South … Read More
African BLOG TAKEOVER #2
Meet our African takeover team members! Prof. Mark Fleishman, Mandla Mbothwe and Jayne Batzofin, from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, are working on the exciting project entitled Reimagining … Read More