Shakespeare in Swahililand: in search of a global poet

Prelude

Beauty out of place. The Lake Regions: Shakespeare and the explorers

Zanzibar: Shakespeare and the slaveboy printworks

Interlude: the Swahili Coast: player-kings of Eastern Africa

Mombasa: Shakespeare, bard of the railroad

Nairobi: Expats, emigrés and exile

Kampala: Shakespeare at school, at war and in prison

Dar Es Salaam: Shakespeare in power

Addis Ababa: Shakespeare and the lion of Judah

Pan Africa: Shakespeare in the Cold War

Juba: Shakespeare, civil war and reconstruction.