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the first production of the stage version of The Black Jacobins, which premiered in Nigeria, in 1967, during the Biafran War, while because holy shit! The original director, Wole Soyinka, was arrested for Biafran sympathies, partway through the process; the new director had to deal with not only navigating university politics during a civil war, but also with C.L.R. James constantly airmailing him letters suggesting new scenes and staging up to like a week before opening night. When the author talks about the palimpsest of the drama of history she is really not kidding

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