Theatre and the Oppressed: Apartheid and Paulo Freire (original) (raw)

The Hwamanda is the kudu horn that calls the people to the dare, the meeting place. For me the moan of the horn is the horn that brings the old and the young to the most pressing dare of all – namely, that of intergeneration communication. This paper is a memoir, written for a young student in Botswana who wanted to know something about ‘protest theatre’ in apartheid South Africa, Augusto Boal and his Theatre of the Oppressed. The writer is an old man remembering and sharing the past with youth. I have largely written about what I personally experienced and participated in. No doubt there are times when my memory will get it wrong but I hope that more often it will get it right.