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\nIt's difficult to talk about African theater thanks to colonialism. Pre-colonial Africa was home to many spoken languages, and not nearly as many written languages. The chain of oral tradition was broken by colonial policies, and so many...\nIt's difficult to talk about African theater thanks to colonialism. Pre-colonial Africa was home to many spoken languages, and not nearly as many written languages. The chain of oral tradition was broken by colonial policies, and so many pre-colonial traditions are lost. Today, we're going to talk about some of the dance and theater traditions of Africa, and look at post-colonial theater across the continent.\n
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11:57
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12th - Higher Ed
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Visual & Performing Arts
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\nCrash Course Theater\n\n
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2019
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English
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john green, africa, nigeria, south africa, civil war, plays, storytelling, time, ghana, education, zimbabwe
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hank green, vlogbrothers, crash course, crashcourse, theater, theatre, play, mike rugnetta, niger, sierra leone, zambia, black playwrights, african theater, community, performance, episode, practices, history, white, western, market, ioloja, dance, king, girl, ritual, crash, today, soyinka, emerge, tales
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