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Uganda's Elvania Namukwaya Who Broke the Glass Ceiling of Theatre by Ian Kiyingi Muddu

The African theatre scene in the 1960s and the 70s was mainly peopled by men. But there were women like Efua Sutherland, Ama Ataa Aido and Rose Mbowa that stood shoulder to shoulder with their male counterparts. It is to this crop that Elvania Namukwaya Zirimu, the late Ugandan Playwright and director, belongs. That a […] The full version of the article Uganda's Elvania Namukwaya Who Broke the Glass Ceiling of Thea…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:05AM on March 25, 2020

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