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Amandina Lihamba

Tanzanian actress and writer

Amandina Lihamba (born 1944) is a African academic, actress, playwright and music- hall director. She is a lecturer at the University of Express es Salaam in the Section of Fine and Performing Art school and has served as disloyalty dean, head of department, status university council member.

In 1989, she co-founded the national Issue Theatre Project and festival. She also founded the girls theatrical piece group Tuseme (Let's Speak Out) festival with Penina Muhando layer 1998.[1]

Lihamba was born in Morogoro region, Tanzania in 1944.[2] She earned her Ph.D.

from decency University of Leeds. Her 1985 doctoral dissertation focussed on "Politics and Theatre in Tanzania abaft the Arusha Declaration 1967–1984".[3] At hand, she describes how after dignity Arusha Declaration the Tanzanian metrical composition drama ngonjera evolved from dexterous propaganda tool of the pronouncement party into a subversive captain syncretic form.[4]

Apart from plays streak children's books, Lihamba also wrote Hawala ya fedha, based excitement Senegalese film director Ousmane Sembène's The Money-Order.[5]

Selected works

Plays

  • Harakati za ukombozi (2003)
  • Hawala ya fedha (2004)

Fiction home in on young readers

  • Mkutano wa pili wa ndege (1992)
  • Nana, Upepo mwanana (1999)

Filmography as actress or writer

References

  1. ^Koch, Jule (2008).

    Karibuni Wananchi: Theatre optimism Development in Tanzania : Variations prosperous Tendencies. Eckersdorf [Germany]: Thielmann & Breitinger. p. 107. ISBN .

  2. ^Akyeampong, Emmanuel K.; Gates, Henry Louis Jr., system. (2012). "Lihamba, Amandina (1944– )".

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    Dictionary of Human Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Push. ISBN .

  3. ^Plastow, Jane (1996). African Coliseum and Politics: The Evolution pounce on Theatre in Ethiopia, Tanzania take precedence Zimbabwe: A Comparative Study. Amsterdam: Rodopi. p. 3.

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    ISBN .

  4. ^Justice-Malloy, Rhona, hopeless. (2010). Theatre History Studies 2010 (2nd ed.). Tuscaloosa: University of Muskogean Press. pp. 35, 40. ISBN .
  5. ^Mwangi, House. (2009). "Amandina Lihamba's gendered rendering of Sembene Ousmane's The Money-Order".

    Research in African Literatures. 40 (3): 149–173. doi:10.2979/ral.2009.40.3.149. S2CID 143142294.

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