Mandla Mbothwe’s blog post reflects on iKrele leChiza, the second ReTAGS’ Practice as Research (PaR) theatre production which engages not only with tragedy from a South African perspective, but also the Homeric character … Read More
by Gifty Etornam Katahena – continued from #16 A further Classical echo is in a portrait of Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of the Republic of Ghana, situated at his … Read More
by Gifty Etornam Katahena When the Remnants Remain: Redefining Classics in Ghana through Reception The first July blog (and 16th of the African takeover!) is written by Gifty Etornam Katahena … Read More
By Lekan Balogun Remarkably, Antigone is also an individual but a very different type for the singularity that this character embodies transcends type, class, sex, or the woman-female-gender sphere, either … Read More
By Lekan Balogun As noted by Kabali-Kagwa, Fleishman reminds us of our relationship to tradition as a means to (re)acquaint ourselves with other ways of interpreting a work of art … Read More
This thirteenth blog of the African takeover is written by Dr Lekan Balogun, post-doctoral fellow at the University of Cape Town. His PhD from the Victoria University of Wellington, New … Read More
Event announcement Prof. Folake Onayemi of the Department of Classics, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, will be speaking at the final Classical Reception Studies Network seminar on Monday 21 June 2021, 4.30pm-6.00pm BST. Professor Onayemi is well known for her fascinating work on Graeco-Roman and Yoruba literature and society. This includes topics such as comparative drama, women and … Read More
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
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
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