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Political Perspectives and Popular Theatre in Nigeria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2009

Olu Obafemi
Affiliation:
lectures in the Dept. of Modern European Languages at the University of Ilorin.

Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1982

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References

Notes

1. (a) Sowande, Bode, Farewell to Babylon and Other Plays, London, 1979.Google Scholar

(b) Osofisan, Femi, The Chattering and the Song, Ibadan, 1976.Google Scholar

(c) Omotoso, Kole, Shadows in the Horizon, Ibadan, 1977.Google Scholar

2. Biodun Jeyifo describes Soyinka's metaphysical vision of art as ‘metaphysical cosmic effluvia’. See Positive Review, ed. Jeyifo, B., Ofeimun, O. et al. , no. 1, Ibadan, 1978, p. 16.Google Scholar

3. Even when Soyinka goes ‘ideological’, he still exemplifies that artistic instinct which Jeyifo once again describes as ‘Western bourgeois individualism’. See Positive Review, No. 2, Ibadan, 1978, p. 23.Google Scholar

4. Femi Osofisan in an interview with Onuora Enekwe, Ibadan, 1978 (unpublished).

5. Sowande's The Night Before is published in Farewell to Babylon, op. cit.

6. Sowande's essay entitled ‘The Writer's Enterprise’ read in the seminar, ‘Radical Perspectives of Art and Society’, Ibadan, 1977.

7. Robert Fraser is one of these commentators. See his Review of Sowande', Farewell to Babylon and Other Plays in West Africa, London, 05 20, 1979, p. 936.Google Scholar

8. Olu Obafemi interviewing Sowande, Bode, 11 8, 1978.Google Scholar

9. Onuora Enekwe, interviewing Femi Osofisan, op. cit.

10. Omotoso, Kole's The Curse, Ibadan, 1976.Google Scholar