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Portraits for an eagle: a festschrift in honour of Femi Osofisan
No full textTo mark the 60th birthday of Femi Osofisan, this unique collection of essays by friends and critics pays tribute to his many achievements as a director, teacher, essayist, novelist, poet, critic and one of the foremost playwrights from Africa. The essays provide an important insight into the man,his work and his valuable contributions to theatre and literature in Africa.
Femi Osofisan has taught, directed and had his plays performed in several countries including Australia, Canada, Germany, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Jamaica, Lesotho, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom and the USA. Author of more than fifty plays, two books for junior readers, four works of fiction, four collections of poetry anf four volumes of essays, Osofisan also has popular columns in a number of Nigerian newspapers. Currently the President of the Nigerian Centre of International PEN and a Patron of the Pan-African Writers' Association, he has been the President of the Association of Nigerian Authors. Osofisan is currently a Professor of Drama at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
Portraits For An Eagle is a definitive tribute to a man of the theatre. Contributors include fellow writers, distinguished academics and critics like Biodun Jeyifo, James Gibbs, Olu Obafemi, Barbara Goff and Martin Banham
Portraits for an eagle: a festschrift in honour of Femi Osofisan
No full textTo mark the 60th birthday of Femi Osofisan, this unique collection of essays by friends and critics pays tribute to his many achievements as a director, teacher, essayist, novelist, poet, critic and one of the foremost playwrights from Africa. The essays provide an important insight into the man,his work and his valuable contributions to theatre and literature in Africa.
Femi Osofisan has taught, directed and had his plays performed in several countries including Australia, Canada, Germany, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Jamaica, Lesotho, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom and the USA. Author of more than fifty plays, two books for junior readers, four works of fiction, four collections of poetry anf four volumes of essays, Osofisan also has popular columns in a number of Nigerian newspapers. Currently the President of the Nigerian Centre of International PEN and a Patron of the Pan-African Writers' Association, he has been the President of the Association of Nigerian Authors. Osofisan is currently a Professor of Drama at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
Portraits For An Eagle is a definitive tribute to a man of the theatre. Contributors include fellow writers, distinguished academics and critics like Biodun Jeyifo, James Gibbs, Olu Obafemi, Barbara Goff and Martin Banham
Goddess of the storm and other stories: — a compilation of short stories by Nigerian authors Vol. 1
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A Gazelle of Savannal Sunday Ododo and the Framing of Techno- Cultural Performance in Nigeria: Theatre, Culture, Literature, Art
No full textPerforming myths, ritualising modernity: dancing for Nomkhubulwana and the reinvention of Zulu tradition
Get PDFThe European colonial expansion T in Africa disrupted and in instances stopped the celebration and development of traditional values in the colonised territories. This disruption is more acute in southern Africa, especially in the South African territory of Zululand, where the European economic and political policies led to a state of apartheid, which existed from 1948 to 1991, and uneven development afterwards. Several of the nations in the formerly colonised areas are trying to re-create and re-form their traditional values. The AmaZulu, who occupy the north-eastern part of South Africa, are a nation of proud antecedents and rich traditional values and they are now evolving practices and ideas to re-create the lost cultural heritage of the people. A part of the cultural rejuvenation is the annual Nomkhubulwana (Nomdede)festival in celebration of the Virgin Queen. This paper highlights some aspects of traditional revival in the 1990s, after the apartheid period when the nation was trying to reform its relevance
Language and accessibility in Femi Osofisan's drama
No full textFor more than forty years, Femi Osofisan as a committed Nigerian writer has devoted most of his dramaturgy to arguing and dramatising causes for a just society. In plays such as The Chattering and the Song (1976) and Morountodun (1982), Osofisan challenges the recuperative bias of the négritude ideology that classified everything African as noble, and proposes the presence of tyranny as the dictating current behind popular African myths and traditional practices. In other plays like Yungba Yungba and the Dance Contest (1993) and the Midnight series of plays , he criticises the corrupt and corruptive tendencies of the political elite in Nigeria whose ambition to enrich themselves has not only damaged the national credibility but has served to create an oppressive situation for the general populace
Developments in the theory and practice of contemporary Nigerian drama and theatre: a festschrift in honour of Dapo Adelugba
No full textA gazelle of the Savannah: Sunday Ododo and the framing of techno-cultural performance in Nigeria : theatre, culture, literature, art
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