About the Journal

Articles for African Performance Review are accepted for publication after assessment by referees. Submissions should be original and unpublished contributions, and should not be under consideration with another publication. Articles should be typed in Microsoft Word, should not normally exceed 5000 words, and must be typed double-spaced with wide margins. Submissions should include an abstract and a list of keywords. Name(s) and affiliation of contributors must not appear on the manuscript, but be submitted in a separate document.

Contributors should use the Harvard Style. All references are included in the text and are indicated by surname(s) or author(s), year of publication and page number(s) in brackets, e.g. (Ukaegbu, 2013: 57)

Submissions should be sent to the Editor, African Performance Review, at:  editor@african-theatre.org

All articles published in African Performance Review are open access and are licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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African Performance Review is published by the African Theatre Association (AfTA). Copyright in individual articles, reviews, and other contributions remains with the respective authors unless otherwise stated. The journal as a collective work is published by AfTA.

Unless otherwise indicated, all articles and other published content in African Performance Review are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Under this licence, readers may share and redistribute the material in any medium or format, provided that appropriate credit is given to the author(s), African Performance Review, and AfTA; a link to the Creative Commons licence is provided; and any changes to the licence terms are indicated. The material may not be used for commercial purposes, and no derivatives or adaptations may be distributed.

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