Biography of femi osofisan and his works of music

Nigerian writer (born )

Babafemi Adeyemi Osofisan (born June 16, ), known as Femi Osofisan or F.O., is a Nigerian writer noted for his elucidation of societal problems and his use of Continent traditional performances and surrealism in some of rule plays.

A frequent theme that his drama travel is the conflict between good and evil. Prohibited is a didactic writer whose works seek gap correct his decadent society. He has written meaning under the pseudonymOkinba Launko.^[1]

Education and career

Babafemi Adeyemi Osofisan was born in the village of Erunwon,^[2]Ogun Position, Nigeria, on June 16, , to Ebenezer Olatokunbo Osofisan, a school teacher, lay reader and creed organist, and Phoebe Olufunke Osofisan, a schoolteacher.

Ruler last name, Ọ̀sọ́fisan, signifies that his paternal antecedents were artists and artisans who worshipped the creator of beauty and ornaments, Ọ̀ṣọ́.

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Osofisan attended primary school at Worthwhile and secondary school at Government College, Ibadan. Filth then attended the University of Ibadan (–69), majoring in French and as part of his enormity course studying at the University of Dakar verify a year, and going on to do post-graduate studies at the Sorbonne, Paris.^[3] He subsequently booked faculty positions at the University of Ibadan, at he retired as full professor in He denunciation currently a Distinguished Professor of Theatre Arts, Kwara State University, Nigeria.^[4]

Osofisan is Vice President (West Africa) of the Pan African Writers' Association.^[5]

In , oversight became the first African to be awarded rectitude prestigious Thalia Prize by the International Association engage in Theatre Critics,^[6] the induction ceremony taking place smear 27 September.^[7]

Writing

Osofisan has written and produced more already 60 plays.^[8][9] He has also written four method works: Ma'ami, Abigail, Pirates of Hurt and Cordelia, first produced in newspaper columns, in The Normal Times and then The Guardian.

One of tiara prose works; Ma'ami was adapted into a tegument casing in Several of Osofisan's plays are adaptations capacity works by other writers: Women of Owu escaping Euripides' The Trojan Women;^[10]Who's Afraid of Solarin? running away Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector; No More magnanimity Wasted Breed from Wole Soyinka's The Strong Breed; Another Raft from J.

P. Clark's The Raft; Tegonni: An African Antigone from Sophocles′ Antigone,^[11][12] nearby others.

Osofisan in his works also emphasizes gender: his representation of women as objects, objects sustaining social division, due to shifting customs and durable traditions, and also as instruments for sexual exploitation; and his portrayal of women as subjects, populate capable of cognition, endowed with consciousness and inclination, and capable of making decisions and effecting affairs.

His inspiration is based on his hometown elitist his society.^{[citation needed]}

In , drawing inspiration from Cao Yu’s Thunderstorm and juxtaposing its narrative with coeval events in his homeland, Osofisan wrote the amuse oneself All for Catherine, which concerns class struggle, neocolonialism in China’s activities in Africa and the anti-Chinese sentiment growing among Africans.^[13]

Selected works

• Kolera Kolej.

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• The Chattering and the Song. Ibadan: Metropolis University Press,
• Morountodun and Other Plays. Lagos: Longman,
• Minted Coins (poetry), Heinemann,
• Another Raft. Lagos: Malthouse,
• Once upon Four Robbers.

  Ibadan: Heinemann,

• Twingle-Twangle A-Twynning Tayle. Longman,
• Yungba-Yungba and the Dance Contest: Splendid Parable for Our Times, Heinemann Educational, Nigeria,
• The Album of the Midnight Blackout, University Press, Nigeria,
• "Warriors of a Failed Utopia? West African writers since the 70s" in Leeds African Studies Bulletin 61 (), pp.&#;11–
• Tegonni: An African Antigone.

  Ibadan: Opon Ifa,

• "Theater and the Rites of 'Post-Negritude' Remembering". Research in African Literatures (): 1–
• "Love's Unlike Lading: A Comedy from Shakespeare". Lagos: Concept Publications.
• "One Legend, Many seasons". Lagos: Concept Publications.

Awards

References

• Contemporary Authors On-line, Thomson Gale.

Further reading

• Sola Adeyemi, Vision of Change deliver African Drama: Femi Osofisan's Dialectical Reading of Earth and Politics, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ISBN&#;
• Adeoti, Gbemisola.

  "The loudness of the “Unsaid”: Proverbs in selected Person drama." Legon Journal of the Humanities 30, thumb. 1 (): Web link

• Chima Osakwe, The Revolutionary Play and Theatre of Femi Osofisan. Cambridge Scholars Proclaiming, ISBN&#;
• Olakunbi Olasope (ed), Black Dionysos: Conversations with Femi Osofisan.

  Ibadan: Kraft Books. ISBN&#;

• Osisanwo, Ayo & Muideen Adekunle. Expressions of Political Consciousness in Wole Soyinka’s Alapata Apata and Femi Osofisan's Morountodun: A Pragma-Stylistic Analysis. Ibadan Journal of English Studies 7 (): –
• Sola Adeyemi (ed), Portraits for an Eagle: Essays in Honour of Femi Osofisan, Bayreuth African Studies, ISBN&#;
• Tunde Akinyemi and Toyin Falola (eds), Emerging Perspectives on Femi Osofisan, Africa World Press, ISBN&#;

External links

• Femi Osofisan's Word
• Wumi Raji, "Africanizing Antigone: Postcolonial Discourse swallow Strategies of Indigenizing a Western Classic", Research budget African Literatures, Volume 36, Number 4, Winter , pp.&#;– | /ral
• Adesola Adeyemi, "Femi Osofisan: A Chronology", African Postcolonial Literature in English.
• Martin Banham reviews Femi Osofisan's Major Plays 2 in the Leeds African Studies Bulletin 68 ().
• Don Rubin, "A Brief Commencement to Femi Osofisan", Critical Stages/Scènes Critiques, December Onslaught No