The use of plays by African authors in secondary schools

Written to be performed, plays are also used as teaching aids in the teaching-learning of the French language in the Ivorian education system. In C te d'Ivoire's lyc es and coll ges, pupils are taught theatrical works by French and African authors. This study focused on plays written by Africans in order to determine the contribution of these African plays to the teaching-learning of the French language and the opinions of teachers and pupils on the usefulness of these teaching aids. The results show that, apart from a few difficulties encountered, teachers and their pupils prefer African plays because, as well as enabling them to learn theatrical writing, they have a direct impact on pupils' oral and written expression because of the realities of African societies that they depict.