... drama could be classed as theatre at all, because of its lack of literary form. Others argued that theatre was 'entertainment' and because pre-colonial African performances were deeply ingrained with religious and spiritual rituals; then it could not be deemed theatre, as true theatre was a secular form of entertainment, therefore it owed more to religion and worship than it did to the enjoyment of an audience. The arrogant egotistical notion that African performance had to follow western traditions of theatre for it to be classed as theatre now seems to us as ludicrous. Nowadays, thankfully, most commentators and dramatists accept that traditional African theatre did have a significant amount of secular presentations and that religious and ritualistic performances can be classed as entertainment, and not restricted to the process of worship. Indeed, many of the world's theatrical and dramatic forms of performance have very little resemblance to the Euro centric ...

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