Although I am committed, through personal experience and conviction, to diversity and multiculturalism in the classroom, I have become increasingly concerned with how these concepts get translated into practice, particularly in the pedagogy of writing classes. I fear that postcolonial texts are frequently...

Byline: Henry Stuttley Daily Herald Staff Writer Dressed in authentic African attire and armed with native instruments, the Kopano Performing Arts Company celebrates African culture with dancing and proverbs that have guided young people in Africa. The three-member dance troupe performed...

In the following essay, Wright investigates Soyinka's 1960 Rockefeller Foundation scholarship research project on traditional African festivals and traces the impact of this research on his work, particularly as seen in the play A Dance of the Forests.

[The] connection between traditional drama and religious ritual has led some commentators to note a similarity between the origins of African and Greek drama. Both arise from public celebration of local festival that approaches religious rite. Soyinka's own A Dance of the Forests is developed from the Yoruba Egungun Festival. Probably the point is theoretically valid, but I doubt whether we are helped to proper evaluation of this drama if we have the sublime power of Greek tragedy echoing in our memo...