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Drama In Africa Question Paper

Drama In Africa

Course:Bachelor Of Arts In Music

Institution: Kenyatta University question papers

Exam Year:2009

KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2008/2009
INSTITUTIONAL SCHOOL BASED PROGRAMME (IBP)
EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE MASTER OF ARTS

MAL 602: DRAMA IN AFRICA
DATE:
Wednesday 2nd September 2009
TIME: 9.00am-12.00 Noon
INSTRUCTIONS:
Answer only three (3) questions

1.
Evaluate Tewfik Al Hakim?s treatment of women in Fate of a Cockroach.
2.
?Blood Knot by Athol Fugard is not about the two brothers: Zack and Morris.
It is about the oppressive apartheid regime in South?. Do you agree? Defend
your position with appropriate examples from the play.

3.
Identify and anlyse the traditional African theatrical forms of communication
in The Gods are Not to Blame by Ola Rotimi.

4.
Choose any two plays you have studied in this course and compare them in
terms of the stylistics devices which the playwrights have used to explore their
various themes.

5.
?There is nothing like African aesthetics?. In fact what has commonly been
refereed to as African aesthetics is western aesthetics. Using any three books
studied in this course, accept or refute this claim.

6.
Outline and discuss the factors that have influenced the development/

underdevelopment of African drama.

7.
?The problem with African playwrights is that they flirt with social issues and
subsequently defeat one of the major concerns of African literature, viz, to
give society a sense of direction?. Using any three books studied in this
course, argue for or against this statement.
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