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Funmilayo Ranco: Feminist Self-Assertion in Late-20th-Century Yoruba Traveling Theatre

Ngozi Udengwu
Publisher: Journals Gateway
TDR/The Drama Review (2019) 63 (1 (241)): 52–63.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/dram_a_00816
Published: 01 March 2019
Abstract
Funmilayo Ranco was a radical self-proclaimed feminist in 1960s Nigeria. As the only female actor-manager in the professional Yoruba traveling theatre, she upended the conventions of the popular form’s opening and closing glee entertainments to assert her complex gender expression.
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