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The successes and challenges behind the production of one of Nigeria’s most iconic theatre works on a Western stage.
Aug 18, 2024
Amaka Umeh (foreground) as Praise-Singer with Anthony Santiago as Elesin and members of the company in Death and the King's Horseman. Stratford Festival, 2022. DAVID HOU / STRATFORD FESTIVAL CA.
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is a Nigerian living in the diaspora whose work and activism circles the axis of borders and bodies, the diaspora and the postcolonial, sexuality and gender, race and religion.



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