Trickster theatre: the poetics of freedom in urban Africa

Introduction: poetics of uncertainty

History and mediations in making theatre

Making culture : race, history, and a theory of performance in the Gold Coast colony

The national theatre movement : urban art infrastructures and a contested national culture in independence-era Accra

Revolutionary storytelling : Pan-African theatre and remaking lost futures in 1980s Ghana

A man of the people : Mohammed Ben Abdallah as artist-politician

Stagings in millennial Ghana

Total African theatre : language, reflexivity, and ambiguity in The witch of Mopti

"The best tradition goes on" : audience, consumption, and the structural transformation of Concert Party popular theatre

Fake pastors and real comedians : doubling and parody in miraculous, charismatic performance

Copying independence : backstage at the fiftieth-anniversary re-enactment of Nkrumah's independence speech

Epilogue: unfreedom as critical theory.