User:CharlieCaseyYork/Penina Mlama

Penina Muhando Mlama is a Tanzanian academic, playwright and theatre-maker who made a significant contribution to community theatre, or what is also known as Theatre for Development (TfD) in Africa. Alongside her colleague Amandina Lihamba, she pioneered a particularly in-depth approach with their Oxfam-funded project 'Theatre for Social Development' which took place over eighteen months in Malya, in the Mwanza region of northern Tanzania.

She also did important work on the aesthetics of African orature.

Books

 * Culture and development: the popular theatre approach in Africa, 1991

Articles

 * 'Digubi: A Tanzanian Indigenous Theatre Form', The Drama Review, 1981
 * 'Tanzania's Cultural Policy And Its Implications For The Contribution Of The Arts To Socialist Development', Utafiti, 1985
 * 'African Perspectives on Programs for North American Students in Africa: The Experience of the University of Dar es Salaam', African Issues, 2000
 * 'Popular theatre and development‐challenges for the future: The Tanzanian experience', Contemporary Theatre Review, 2002