Amandina lihamba biography sample
Amandina Lihamba
Tanzanian actress and writer
Amandina Lihamba (born ) is a Tanzanian academic, actress, playwright and theatre director. She is a professor at the University of Dar es Salaam in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts and has served as its dean, head of department, and university council member.
In , she co-founded the national Children Theatre Project and festival. She also founded the girls drama group Tuseme (Let's Speak Out) festival with Penina Muhando in [1]
Lihamba was born in Morogoro region, Tanzania in [2] She earned her Ph.D.
Biography sample for work Personal Profile. Actress Director Professor. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Recently viewed 0 Save Search.from the University of Leeds. Her doctoral dissertation focussed on "Politics and Theatre in Tanzania after the Arusha Declaration –".[3] There, she describes how after the Arusha Declaration the Tanzanian verse drama ngonjera evolved from a propaganda tool of the ruling party into a subversive and syncretic form.[4]
Apart from plays and children's books, Lihamba also wrote Hawala ya fedha, based on Senegalese film director Ousmane Sembène's The Money-Order.[5]
Selected works
Plays
- Harakati za ukombozi ()
- Hawala ya fedha ()
Fiction for young readers
- Mkutano wa pili wa ndege ()
- Nana, Upepo mwanana ()
Filmography as actress or writer
References
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Karibuni Wananchi: Theatre for Development in Tanzania: Variations and Tendencies. Eckersdorf [Germany]: Thielmann & Breitinger. p. ISBN.
- ^Akyeampong, Emmanuel K.; Gates, Henry Louis Jr., eds.Free biography sample University of Leeds. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Actress Director Professor. Amandina Lihamba.
(). "Lihamba, Amandina (– )". Dictionary of African Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN.
- ^Plastow, Jane ().Personal biography sample resume Don't have an account? Username Please enter your Username. Yaliyomo hamishia kwenye mwambaa upande ficha. ISBN
African Theatre and Politics: The Evolution of Theatre in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zimbabwe: A Comparative Study. Amsterdam: Rodopi. p.3. ISBN.
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"Amandina Lihamba's gendered adaptation of Sembene Ousmane's The Money-Order". Research in African Literatures. 40 (3): – doi/ral S2CID