Introduction

The following annotated list of entries about the Festival offers an approach to preparing a history of PANAFEST that complements and extends Victor Yankah's analysis. By way of pre-amble, the dates of the editions of the festival may be noted:

1. 2-19 December 1992

2. 9-18 December 1994

3. 29 August - 7 September 1997

4. 30 July - 8 August 1999

5. 27 July - 3 August 2001

6. 24 July - 1 August 2003

7. 21 July - 1 August 2005

8. 22 July - 1 August 2007

9. 16 July 2009

10. 23 July - 1 August 2011

The earlier part of the bibliography from which these entries have been extracted is available on-line from the Jahn Library for African Literatures at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) I am grateful to Dr Anja Oed who has made on-line access possible. See http://www.jahn-bibliothek.ifeas.unimainz.de

[1980]

Sutherland, Efua. ‘A Proposal for an Historical Drama Festival in Cape Coast’, paper presented to the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. In 1991, this was expanded into plans for PANAFEST, a Pan- African Historical Theatre Festival, first held 1992.