Performing Power... attempts a comparative re]examination of the 'nation' and its various contestations from the perspective of the more recent popular theatre tradition in Kenya. It is substantially a re-think and interrogation of entrenched assumptions about the postcolony and its realities, often typified by mind-boggling expressions of ethnicity in many African countries, complete with all the codes, values, mythologies, various stereotypes as well as the language as its most prominent insignia. The book is a fairly comprehensive historical exploration of works produced during the...