Repertoire du theatre burkinabe. (Special Issue: Oral Literature)

"The present Repertoire du theatre burkinabo lists all the plays by Burkinabe authors of whom I could find any trace: plays edited and published in reviews, newspapers, or publishing houses in Africa or in Europe; plays performed before an audience; manuscript plays, typescript plays, mimeographed plays, and plays that were performed without scripts; plays mentioned in the media, submitted to national or international competitions, or mentioned in the secondary literature" (7). Even more than Zimmer's Repertoire du theatre camerounais (1986), his bibliography of Burkinabe drama is exhaustive. Some might cavil at the hearsay aspect of a few plays or at the general …