Intellect

Chukwuma Okoye is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Theatre Arts, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, where he teaches contemporary African theatre and performance. His current research interest is in critically marginalized forms of contemporary African theatre, especially by young people, that are neither taught nor investigated in conventional theatre scholarship. He has published critical essays on indigenous Igbo masquerade theatre in Nigeria, and on the location of African theatre in current debates in literary and cultural studies.