Connie Rapoo
Biographic Data
| ID | 1268358 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Connie Rapoo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Connie |
| FAMILY NAME | Rapoo |
| SIGNATURE | RAPOO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Botswana |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0239-1426 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Shifting sands of the past and the present in drama of the New South Africa
The experimental pedigree of South African drama of the anti-apartheid period requires no introduction. This pedigree was established during the years of anti-apartheid playwriting of the 1970s and 80s when South Africa's iniquitous politics of race relations was put under the spotlight on local and world stages. This was achieved through the work of playwrights such as Mbongeni Ngema, Percy Mtwa, Athol Fugard and Matsemela Manaka, among others. …
Ancestral rendezvous
Young producers of popular culture in Africa are positioned at the ironic axis of lack and luxury. Enticed by the lure of hope, these cultural producers are cashing in on the power of new media and popular culture as creative resistance to marginalization and a highway to self-assertion. Building on Karen Barber’s notion of creative expressions as ‘social facts,’ this paper examines the theatre of Moratiwa Molema as a performative articulation of…
Immobile Cabmen and Single-track Railroads
August Wilson’s celebrated ten-play cycle in which he focuses on the African American condition during the twentieth century has been hailed for the way the playwright grapples with issues of history and identity. This paper adopts aspects of the New Mobilities Paradigm (NMP) as it carries forward the theme of alienation, confusion and despair in Wilson’s plays. It argues that Jitney and Two Trains Running deploy highly deceptive cause-to-effect …
Youth and Popular Culture in Africa
Experiments with Truth
(2019). Experiments with Truth: Narrative Non-Fiction and the Coming of Democracy in South Africa, by Hedley Twidle. African Historical Review: Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 73-76
Performing Cultural Memory and the Symbolic. The Musical Theatre Traditions of the Basarwa in the Ghanzi District, Botswana
Urbanised soundtracks
This article interrogates the participation of youth in constructing and defining the African urban landscape. It seeks to examine youth popular culture and performance practices that combine indigenous sound aesthetics with enactments of cultural memory to construct the urban landscape of Botswana. Particularly, the article examines youth cultural and expressive forms such as hip-hop and Kwaito musical genres, popularised traditional music, and …
Just give us the bones!’
Repatriations of dead African bodies, ritualistic reburials, and commemorative practices of remembering bodies elaborate African practices of cultural memory and collective identification. The repatriations of the bodily remains of Sarah Baartman, the so-called ‘Hottentot Venus’, from France to South Africa, and ‘El Negro’ from Spain to Botswana, are emblematic and define instances of such African dramas. This article interrogates these embodied …
Flight (review)
Flight. By Charlayne Woodard. Directed by Robert Egan. Kirk Douglas Theatre, Culver City, California. 16 January–13 February 2005
Just give us the bones!’
Repatriations of dead African bodies, ritualistic reburials, and commemorative practices of remembering bodies elaborate African practices of cultural memory and collective identification. The repatriations of the bodily remains of Sarah Baartman, the so-called ‘Hottentot Venus’, from France to South Africa, and ‘El Negro’ from Spain to Botswana, are emblematic and define instances of such African dramas. This article interrogates these embodied …
Performing Cultural Memory and the Symbolic. The Musical Theatre Traditions of the Basarwa in the Ghanzi District, Botswana
Urbanised soundtracks
This article interrogates the participation of youth in constructing and defining the African urban landscape. It seeks to examine youth popular culture and performance practices that combine indigenous sound aesthetics with enactments of cultural memory to construct the urban landscape of Botswana. Particularly, the article examines youth cultural and expressive forms such as hip-hop and Kwaito musical genres, popularised traditional music, and …
Flight (review)
Flight. By Charlayne Woodard. Directed by Robert Egan. Kirk Douglas Theatre, Culver City, California. 16 January–13 February 2005
Just give us the bones!’
Repatriations of dead African bodies, ritualistic reburials, and commemorative practices of remembering bodies elaborate African practices of cultural memory and collective identification. The repatriations of the bodily remains of Sarah Baartman, the so-called ‘Hottentot Venus’, from France to South Africa, and ‘El Negro’ from Spain to Botswana, are emblematic and define instances of such African dramas. This article interrogates these embodied …
Performing Cultural Memory and the Symbolic. The Musical Theatre Traditions of the Basarwa in the Ghanzi District, Botswana
Urbanised soundtracks
This article interrogates the participation of youth in constructing and defining the African urban landscape. It seeks to examine youth popular culture and performance practices that combine indigenous sound aesthetics with enactments of cultural memory to construct the urban landscape of Botswana. Particularly, the article examines youth cultural and expressive forms such as hip-hop and Kwaito musical genres, popularised traditional music, and …
Experiments with Truth
(2019). Experiments with Truth: Narrative Non-Fiction and the Coming of Democracy in South Africa, by Hedley Twidle. African Historical Review: Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 73-76
Youth and Popular Culture in Africa
Shifting sands of the past and the present in drama of the New South Africa
The experimental pedigree of South African drama of the anti-apartheid period requires no introduction. This pedigree was established during the years of anti-apartheid playwriting of the 1970s and 80s when South Africa's iniquitous politics of race relations was put under the spotlight on local and world stages. This was achieved through the work of playwrights such as Mbongeni Ngema, Percy Mtwa, Athol Fugard and Matsemela Manaka, among others. …
Ancestral rendezvous
Young producers of popular culture in Africa are positioned at the ironic axis of lack and luxury. Enticed by the lure of hope, these cultural producers are cashing in on the power of new media and popular culture as creative resistance to marginalization and a highway to self-assertion. Building on Karen Barber’s notion of creative expressions as ‘social facts,’ this paper examines the theatre of Moratiwa Molema as a performative articulation of…
Immobile Cabmen and Single-track Railroads
August Wilson’s celebrated ten-play cycle in which he focuses on the African American condition during the twentieth century has been hailed for the way the playwright grapples with issues of history and identity. This paper adopts aspects of the New Mobilities Paradigm (NMP) as it carries forward the theme of alienation, confusion and despair in Wilson’s plays. It argues that Jitney and Two Trains Running deploy highly deceptive cause-to-effect …
Sociology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)