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Nigeria's triple historical heritage of autochtone cultures, of Islamic Jihad, Christian missions and British colonialism conditioned a cultural development of continuous change before and after independence. The interaction of the nations within the nation in the 90s further enhanced a variety of creolisations in the arts, visibly in the theatre. The revival of Eggon festival performance as revitalisation of ethnic identity within the Nigerian nation, Soyinka's and Osofisan's usage of Yoruba traditions in a new form of social documentation theatre, Amatu Braide's and Bose Tsevende's theatre for special purposes are the examples chosen by Dugga to illustrate the changes in the art as well as the new role of the cultural elite in the 21st century Nigeria. He points to the emergence of a new cultural policy, yet to be programmatically formulated, that envisages cultural diversity as major asset to Nigerian cultural identity. Victor Samson Dugga teaches Theatre at the University of Jos/Nigeria. He has written and directed a variety of plays, he staged plays of the African classical dramatists, initiated popular theatre/TfD projects, he writes poetry and short stories. His short story Over the Bar won a first prize in a writing contest organised by the Swiss Association for African Studies and FIFA in Zurich 2001.

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Dugga succeeded in working out the multi-faceted trends in Nigerian theatre. His reasoning power has the force to convince the reader of the validity of his arguments. - Said Khamis

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