Impact of Community Theater in Tanzania

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in the rural areas of Africa in the most time effective manner. In order to conquer this obstacle many activists turn to theater.
When it comes to absolute numbers of people living with HIV or AIDS in the period from 2000 to 2006, the estimated number is 40,000 for males aged between ?fteen and twenty-four and 100,000 for females of the same age. The same statistics for persons aged between twenty and twenty-four indicate that 80,000 men versus 220,000 women are infected (Johansson, 2006). In recent years the Tanzanian government has begun to realize that the methods deployed by the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) in 1985 were not as effective as they had hoped for. In 2002 the three tiered plan set out by the NACP and the Tanzania Commission for AIDS (TACAIDS) was then established in to coordinate a three tiered multisectoral response, bringing together all stakeholders including government, business and civil society to provide strategic guidance to HIV/AIDS ...

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political were banned and the producers fined.” By the 1960’s most African countries had achieved independence and began celebrating by creating anti-colonial theatre thus eliciting “a euphoric celebration of freedom” among its people; but, this newly found sense of freedom was only an illusion. By the early 1970’s it had become blatantly apparent that the separation from the British government had only “replaced white colonial masters with black colonial masters.” With the feeling of disappointment and betrayal members of the community, and more specifically artists began to write illuminating issues and possible solutions at the judicial level.
As the movement grew the need to ...

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