Vol. 16 No. 1 (2026): African Performance Review

Published: 23-08-2026

Editorial

Editorial

Sarahleigh Castelyn

7-15
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Articles

Dancing National Identity: A discussion of Idio Chichava's work and the history of contemporary dance in Mozambique

Adriana Jamisse

17-46
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Yusimi Moya Rodriguez's 'Orisha Oshun Dance from Cuba: Oshun as La Mulata in Afro-Cuban, African Caribbean, Circum-Caribbean Sexualities and Libidinal Economies

D. Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson

47-75
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Intersection of Opera and the Traditional African Performance: Transforming Orature and Musical Traditions in Henry Wassanyi Serukenya and Byron Kawadwa's Oluyimba Iwa Wankoko (Song of Wankoko)

Samuel Kasule

77-120
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'Press play': contemporary dancing in Cape Town, South Africa

Gerard M. Samuel

121-134
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The Afro-pop landscape: A continuum fusion of trans border black dances, crystalised as contemporary cultural intangible African identity

Terry Bright Kweku Ofosu, Benedictus Mattson

135-147
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Choreographing Worlding: Planetary Praxis, Care and Resistance in Flatfoot Dance Company's Bodies of Water

Clare Craighead

149-170
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Personhood, Selfcraft and Kinaesthetic Regimes: Colonial Witchcraft and The Timeworn Death Wish

Tawanda Chabikwa

171-194
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Celebrating the complexity of contemporary dance makers in Africa through the lens of South Africa's JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Festival (2015-2024): a reflective visual article

Lliane Loots, Val Adamson

195-213
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Review

Biodun Jeyifo: The Yoruba Popular Travelling Theatre of Nigeria

Gbenga Adeboye

215-218
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