African Shakespeare in a time of Global South consciousness

While the field of Global Shakespeare remains popular in Shakespeare studies, some Shakespeareans have been producing scholarship insisting on the recognition of Global South Shakespeare as a distinct field of inquiry. Global South Shakespeare is constituted by a growing body of work that presents appropriations, adaptations, translations, reinventions and subversions of Shakespeare within the transnational geographies of the Global South. The latest addition to this decolonial body of knowledge is the book African Shakespeare: Subversions, Appropriations, Negotiations, edited by Ifeoluwa Aboluwade, Serena Talento, Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong and Oliver Nyambi. With a clear focus on the African continent as a major stakeholder in Global South politics, the book engineers an ideology of reading Shakespeare not as a borrowed canon in Africa but as a canonical product of Africa's complex and rich encounters with Shakespeare over the centuries. In a time of Global South consciousness, this collection of essays directs our scholarly sensibilities towards an African Shakespeare consciousness that is both provocative and self-reflexive.