Theatre, Media and National Integration in a Globalising World

Liwhu Betiang, Ph.D, is Associate Professor at the Department of Theatre and Media Studies, University of Calabar, Nigeria. A veteran broadcaster and producer with the Nigerian Television Authority and Sub-Station Manager of Cross River Broadcasting Corporation, Ugaga, he experiments with integrated media and development drama in special contexts; strategies he has used for many pro-health and environmental interventions. He adjudicates for the famous Carnival Calabar; and was Chairman of the Calabar Carnival Literary Competition. His publications include the novels Beneath the Rubble, The Cradle on the Scales, and The Rape of Hope, and he is the author of Fundamentals of Dramatic Literature and Criticism and co-editor of Theatre and Media in the Third Millennium. Esekong Andrew-Essien, Ph.D, is Professor of Theatre Scenography at the Department of Theatre and Media Studies, University of Calabar, Nigeria. He is the author of Developing Indigenous Colour Pigments for the Theatre in Nigeria (2014) and Research Methods: A Simplified Approach… (2017). He also edited Research in the Humanities: Dynamics in the Management of Knowledge Creation (2014), and co-edited The Dramaturgy of Liberation and Survival (2002) and Theatre and Media in the 3rd Millennium (2017). He has also published a number of journal articles.