James Gibbs
Biographic Data
| ID | 3586143 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Gibbs |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Gibbs |
| SIGNATURE | GIBBS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
History on Stage and Screen
Law and Personality
Exhuming and highlighting the nearly forgotten Gold Coast intelligentsia
The name K. A. Amonoo sits in the Roll of Honour in the entrance hall of Queen’s College, Taunton, Somerset, England together with the names of other former pupils who served in the First World War. In recent times, focus on K. A. Amonoo has been on his palatial residence, which he built in Anomabo, a coastal town in Ghana, in colonial Gold Coast, as Micots (2015 and 2017) have sought to emphasize in terms of the architectural design of his resid…
African Theatre 15
African Theatre 15
African Theatre 14
Uhuru na Kenyatta
In December 1963 Kenya gained independence from the United Kingdom. To mark the birth of a new nation the new Kenyan government, in collaboration with the retreating colonial government, arranged several celebratory events, from a flag ceremony to dances and sporting occasions, and set about creating new national symbols. Many of the events and symbols organised to celebrate Kenya's independence closely followed precedents laid down across the fo…
African Theatre 12
African Theatre 11
Contributors examine how international theatre festivals have been organised and how they have affected the evolution of sustainable theatre. During the last fifty years, large sums of money, huge resources of labour and vast amounts of creative energy have been invested in international theatre festivals in Africa. Under banners such as 'Reclaiming the African Past' and 'African Renaissance', the festival participants have used the performing ar…
African Theatre 9
African Theatre 7
Profiles theatre companies in Africa working creatively in the context of financial and political constraints. A close scrutiny of how theatre companies operate is an often neglected aspect of theatre life in Africa, yet, as companies profiled here grapple with the issues of 'creativity and collaboration' much is revealed about the way theatre companies across the continent face the challenges of financial constraints, the political complications…
ALT 26 War in African Literature Today
Antigone and her African Sisters
This chapter maps the interaction between the varied and complex indigenous performance traditions of West Africa, and the genres and styles imported from Europe. The focus of the discussion is prompted by theatre in Ghana, and the material has an additional importance outside the field of classics in that it will go some way to compensate for the lack of publication of a theatrical record in Ghana. The chapter explores the impact of Caribbean an…
Writing Ghana, Imagining Africa
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African Drama and Performance (review)
Conteh-Morgan, John, and Tejumola Olaniyan, eds. 2004. African Drama And Performance. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 274 pp. $ 21.95 (paper)
Gathering Seaweed
African-American Pioneers in Anthropology . Ira E. Harrison , Faye V. Harrison
Conversations with Wole Soyinka
Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka is the most prominent writer from the African continent and one of the greatest living playwrights in the English language. His plays have been produced by the leading professional and repertory companies and stages in the English-speaking world including the National Theatre in Britain and the Lincoln Center in New York. At the same time, Soyinka has been the most consistent campaigner against civil and human rights v…
The Poetry of Tanure Ojaide
A Rebirth in African Theatre
Efua Theodora Sutherland
Matters of the Heart
A Critical History of Shona Poetry
Soyinka and a Tattered Power
I Would Like to Raise Their Consciousness
The Kpelle Moot
Opening ParagraphAfrica as a major culture area has been characterized by many writers as being -marked by a high development of law and legal procedures. In the past few years research on African law has produced a series of highly competent monographs such as those on law among the Tiv, the Barotse, and the Nuer. These and related shorter studies have focused primarily on formal processes for the settlement of disputes, such as those which take…
Marital Instability among the Kpelle
A Critical History of Shona Poetry
The Sympathetic Undertaker and Other Dreams
When his brilliant younger brother is discovered wandering naked in the market, stark, raving mad, the nameless storyteller looks back on Rayo's life - a life of questioning and absurdity. Wilfully impetuous and with the resourcefulness of his youth, Rayo challenges the corrupt systems that control the lives of his fellow countrymen. He starts with a grotesque school bully and works his way up to an eventual headlong collision with the centre of …
History on Stage and Screen
Gathering Seaweed
Uhuru na Kenyatta
In December 1963 Kenya gained independence from the United Kingdom. To mark the birth of a new nation the new Kenyan government, in collaboration with the retreating colonial government, arranged several celebratory events, from a flag ceremony to dances and sporting occasions, and set about creating new national symbols. Many of the events and symbols organised to celebrate Kenya's independence closely followed precedents laid down across the fo…
The Poetry of Tanure Ojaide
Stanford Anthropology Department Splits
The Writer and the Road
A socialactivist with wide-ranging concern for the welfare of his society, Wole Soyinka is on record as saying that it was the death toll among students and colleagues which prompted him to become involved in road safety. These victims were among the grim statistics of accidents; for example, in 1988 a total of 9,077 people were killed on Nigerian roads, and 24,413 were injured.2But it is clear from Soyinka's writing that his interest in 'the roa…
Daughters of the Dust
Prize and Prejudice
On Cultural Anthropology and Spouse Abuse
Wole Soyinka
The Market's Edge. A film by C. Edward Hopen
The Kpelle Moot
Opening ParagraphAfrica as a major culture area has been characterized by many writers as being -marked by a high development of law and legal procedures. In the past few years research on African law has produced a series of highly competent monographs such as those on law among the Tiv, the Barotse, and the Nuer. These and related shorter studies have focused primarily on formal processes for the settlement of disputes, such as those which take…
Marital Instability among the Kpelle
Report of the African Studies Association
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Afro-American Committee Chairman Replies to Clarke Report
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The Market's Edge. A film by C. Edward Hopen
The Drama of Black Africa
It does not derive from a personal observation of dramatic performances, but is clearly the product of most extensive library reading. Its utility cannot derive from the novelty of the information it provides, but that it brings together in a competent and sensible way a great amount of material previously scattered throughout many sources not readily obtainable. It has all the virtues and vices of the thesis form which most clearly lies behind i…
Wole Soyinka
Nine Malawian Plays
Law in Radically Different Cultures
Wole Soyinka
On Cultural Anthropology and Spouse Abuse
Whiskers, Alberto" and the "Township Lambs" - Towards an Interpretation of Jack Mapanje's poem 'We Wondered About the Mellow Peaches
Singing in the dark rain
Poets, novelists and censorship in Malawi: the cases of Felix Mnthali, Jack Mapanje, Frank Chipasula and others
Law in Radically Different Cultures
Journal Article J. Barton, J. Gibbs, Jr., V. Li & J. Merryman: Law in Radically Different Cultures Get access Law in Radically Different Cultures By John H. Barton, James Lowell Gibbs, Jr., Victor H. Li and John Henry Merryman. West Publishing Co., 1983. Pp. xxxix, 960. Luis M. Negron Luis M. Negron *Formerly Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor, University of Puerto Rico School of Law; currently, a practicing attorney in San Juan, Puerto Rico.…
Prize and Prejudice
Wole Soyinka
Biography Into Autobiography
In fact, What becameAkestarted out with me wanting to write a biography of an uncle, a very remarkable uncle of mine, who is mentioned here, Daodu, Rev Kuti. I think some of you have heard of Fela, the Nigerian musician. Daodu was his father and a very remarkable individual.Wole Soyinka in Jo Gulledge (ed.), 'Seminar onAkewith Wole Soyinka', inThe Southern Review(Baton Rouge), 23, 3, July 1987, p. 513.The publication of Ake:the years of childhood…
Infusions of lipid into the duodenum elicit satiety in rats while similar infusions into the vena cava do not
Daughters of the Dust
The Chattering Wagtails of Mikuyu Prison
AcknowledgementsPrologueAnother Fools' Day Homes InOut of BoundsChattering WagtailsThe Release and Other Curious SightsGlossary
The Sympathetic Undertaker and Other Dreams
When his brilliant younger brother is discovered wandering naked in the market, stark, raving mad, the nameless storyteller looks back on Rayo's life - a life of questioning and absurdity. Wilfully impetuous and with the resourcefulness of his youth, Rayo challenges the corrupt systems that control the lives of his fellow countrymen. He starts with a grotesque school bully and works his way up to an eventual headlong collision with the centre of …
Bombesin-like peptides and satiety
The Writer and the Road
A socialactivist with wide-ranging concern for the welfare of his society, Wole Soyinka is on record as saying that it was the death toll among students and colleagues which prompted him to become involved in road safety. These victims were among the grim statistics of accidents; for example, in 1988 a total of 9,077 people were killed on Nigerian roads, and 24,413 were injured.2But it is clear from Soyinka's writing that his interest in 'the roa…
Law and Personality
A Critical History of Shona Poetry
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