Language of Nigerian Arabic Theatre and Play in Nigeria Society

Abdulhamid Ahmed

Abstract


This paper shall look into Nigeria languages and Arabic theatre. The official language and must – widely spoken Lingual Franca in English. Which was the Language of Colonial Nigeria? It is most widely spoken language, although English is not the official language of Nigeria. In addition to English, Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo According to Ethnologue 512 languages are spoken in Nigeria. Although Arab theatre in the sense of stage play did not develop until the 19th century, the religion has the other dramatic traditions. Arabic theatre working group ATWG exist to broaden international understanding of the theatre and performance culture of the Arabic – Islamic world, in 2009 the group voted to retain the application Arabic in recognition of the historically unifying role of the Arabic language. This recognition notwithstanding the group is neither meant to be exclusive nor promote any nationalist or religious based agenda rather it seek to maintain its scholarly mission by holding up its key definitional terms to ongoing critical subjects can be draw from all areas of theatre activity as well from performance work that outside the traditional European concept of theatre methodological approaches from the field of (theatre) translation, cultural and postcolonial studies will be represented in the work of the group, but all approaches that will provides a better understanding of this large field of studies are welcome. The Arabic theatre working international federation for theatre research invites proposal for contribution and Arabic theatre.


Keywords


Arabic; Language; Methodological religion; Recognition; Scholarly; Theatre

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