Banham Collection
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Type of record: Book
Title: Banham Collection
Classmark: Banham Collection
Date(s): 1960-2018
Size and medium: 320 volumes; books
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/654102
Description
Over 300 publications collected by Professor Martin Banham, mainly consisting of plays by African dramatists and critical works on African theatre, with some poetry. Much of the collection was published in Nigeria. Other countries of publication include Cameroon, South Africa, Mauritius, Kenya, the UK and the USA.
The collection includes works by and about playwrights and poets including: J.P. Clark Bekederemo, Olu Obafemi, Osonye Tess Onwueme, Femi Osofisan, Ola Rotimi, Wole Soyinka and Dev Virahsawmy.
Cataloguing of this collection is currently in progress. Basic records will be available while this is underway.
Martin Banham is Emeritus Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds.
Banham studied as an undergraduate at the University of Leeds and was a contemporary of Wole Soyinka. From 1956-1966 he taught at the the University College, Ibadan, Nigeria (now the University of Ibadan) where he was involved with the foundation of the School of Drama.
He was appointed Fellow in Drama at the University of Leeds in 1966. Together with his colleague and Technical Director Trevor Faulkner, Banham established the Workshop Theatre and was its Director from 1966-1998.
Banham's publications include African Theatre Today (1976) and A History of Theatre in Africa (2004). He has written extensively on African theatre in international journals and was co-editor of the annual journal African Theatre alongside James Gibbs and Femi Osofisan.
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