'The Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean Theatre provides a very necessary literary map which helps a reader to place the works in context and importance, which is an asset for a guide … a very good read and … laid out to provide easy reference with items of special interest and further reading material physically highlighted on the pages. The book will therefore satisfy the curious and the general reader as much as it will the student and the scholarly researcher.' A. Creighton, University of Guyana

• List of contributors; Preface; 1. African theatre; 2. Introduction; 3. Benin; 4. Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland; 5. Burkina Faso; 6. Cameroon; 7. People's Republic of Congo; 8. Cote d'Ivoire; 9. Ethiopia; 10. Gabon and the Central African Republic; 11. Ghana; 12. Guinea; 13. Kenya; 14. Madagascar; 15. Malawi; 16. Mali; 17. Mauritius; 18. Niger; 19. Nigeria; 20. Senegal; 21. Sierra Leone; 22. South Africa; 23. Togo; 24. Uganda; 25. Zaire; 26. Zambia; 27. Zimbabwe; 28. Caribbean theatre; 29. Introduction; 30. Barbados; 31. Cuba; 32. Dominican Republic; 33. Eastern Caribbean States; 34. Guyana; 35. Jamaica; 36. Puerto Rico; 37. Trinidad and Tobago; Index; Illustration acknowledgements.

'The Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean Theatre provides a very necessary literary map which helps a reader to place the works in context and importance, which is an asset for a guide … a very good read and … laid out to provide easy reference with items of special interest and further reading material physically highlighted on the pages. The book will therefore satisfy the curious and the general reader as much as it will the student and the scholarly researcher.' A. Creighton, University of Guyana

• List of contributors; Preface; 1. African theatre; 2. Introduction; 3. Benin; 4. Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland; 5. Burkina Faso; 6. Cameroon; 7. People's Republic of Congo; 8. Cote d'Ivoire; 9. Ethiopia; 10. Gabon and the Central African Republic; 11. Ghana; 12. Guinea; 13. Kenya; 14. Madagascar; 15. Malawi; 16. Mali; 17. Mauritius; 18. Niger; 19. Nigeria; 20. Senegal; 21. Sierra Leone; 22. South Africa; 23. Togo; 24. Uganda; 25. Zaire; 26. Zambia; 27. Zimbabwe; 28. Caribbean theatre; 29. Introduction; 30. Barbados; 31. Cuba; 32. Dominican Republic; 33. Eastern Caribbean States; 34. Guyana; 35. Jamaica; 36. Puerto Rico; 37. Trinidad and Tobago; Index; Illustration acknowledgements.