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Biozentrum | Seminarraum U1.197 | Spitalstrasse 41 | Basel
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Critical Urbanisms | Department of Social Sciences | University of Basel
Makau Kitata and Kenny Cupers: "Theatre as Decolonisation. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 'I will marry when I want' and Kamiriithu"
Told through the voices of some of its original actors and community members, Kamiriithu is a documentary film project about the Kamiriithu decolonial theater and its legacy today. Soon after its establishment in 1976, the theater was demolished by the Kenyan government because of its revolutionary content. It is best known for the involvement of Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who was imprisoned and later exiled. This project looks beyond the world-famous writer and government repression to foreground enduring struggles for social and environmental justice. Theater became a means by which ordinary people confronted land dispossession, industrial pollution, and neocolonial injustice. Based on their life stories, the project aims to produce a portrait of striving, remembering, and living amongst the lasting infrastructures of colonialism in a rapidly changing Kenya.
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