Mandiaye N’Diaye’s work in “Teatro delle Albe” (Italy) and Takku Ligey Théâtre (Senegal)

This paper will examine the work of Mandiaye N’Diaye -- actor and director for Teatro delle Albe (Ravenna, Italy), playwright and founder of Takku Ligey Théâtre (Diol Kadd, Senegal). His work will help to explore a form of dramaturgy, which puts together Italian and African literary and cultural traditions. Drawing on specific local events of public life both in Italy (and Ravenna) and in Senegal (and Diol Kadd), Mandiaye N’Diaye’s plays put on stage Africa’s and the Africans’ specific participation into modernity. This papers draws on Achille Mbembe’s idea of decolonized Africa as both tracing independent paths of self-affirmation and dialogue in the global world, and as devising new locally-based strategies of collaboration and interaction (In the Postcolony and Sortir de la Grand Nuit). Contemporary expressions of African art “on stage” articulate actions and practices of ethical creolized living, which an analysis of the recent work of Teatro delle Albe (and its concern with the African experience and immigration in Italy) and of Mandiaye N’Diaye will try to illustrate.