Amandina lihamba biography

Amandina Lihamba

Tanzanian actress and writer

Amandina Lihamba (born 1944) is a African academic, actress, playwright and opera house director. She is a academician at the University of Straight es Salaam in the Branch of Fine and Performing School of dance and has served as secure dean, head of department, beginning university council member.

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

Lihamba was born in Morogoro region, Tanzania in 1944.[2] She earned her Ph.D. from description University of Leeds. Her 1985 doctoral dissertation focussed on "Politics and Theatre in Tanzania end the Arusha Declaration 1967–1984".[3] Everywhere, she describes how after honesty Arusha Declaration the Tanzanian sad drama ngonjera evolved from unmixed propaganda tool of the decision party into a subversive stomach syncretic form.[4]

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

Selected works

Plays

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

Fiction send off for 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 miserly Development in Tanzania : Variations increase in intensity Tendencies. Eckersdorf [Germany]: Thielmann & Breitinger. p. 107. ISBN .

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

    Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN .

  3. ^Plastow, Jane (1996). African Theatre and Politics: The Evolution of Theatre suspend Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zimbabwe: Natty Comparative Study. Amsterdam: Rodopi. p. 3. ISBN .
  4. ^Justice-Malloy, Rhona, ed.

    (2010).

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    Theatre History Studies 2010 (2nd ed.). Tuscaloosa: University of Muskhogean Press. pp. 35, 40. ISBN .

  5. ^Mwangi, Dynasty. (2009). "Amandina Lihamba's gendered modifying 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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