Femi Osofisan
Biographic Data
| ID | 175003 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Femi Osofisan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Femi |
| FAMILY NAME | Osofisan |
| SIGNATURE | OSOFISAN F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ibadan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Pa Fálétí, Another Icon Departs
Pa Fálétí is gone, never more to answer our calls or supplications, except from the other side, in the surrogate voice of an ancestor. But we do not mourn him. Rather, the mourning is for ourselves, for those of us left behind. What we mourn indeed is not his passing, but the void that stares us in the face, the apprehension we feel that there is no immediate successor to replace him. But still, we have to accept this not as a defeat but a collec…
Interweaving as a living theatre practice
Christel Weiler: Today, right now, when so many migrants are arriving in Europe, the key question surely centres on what it might mean to live together? How can we cope with this situation and how
African Theatre 15
African Theatre 15
African Theatre 14
African Theatre 12
African Theatre 11
Contributors examine how international theatre festivals have been organised and how they have affected the evolution of sustainable theatre. During the last fifty years, large sums of money, huge resources of labour and vast amounts of creative energy have been invested in international theatre festivals in Africa. Under banners such as 'Reclaiming the African Past' and 'African Renaissance', the festival participants have used the performing ar…
African Theatre 9
African Theatre 7
Profiles theatre companies in Africa working creatively in the context of financial and political constraints. A close scrutiny of how theatre companies operate is an often neglected aspect of theatre life in Africa, yet, as companies profiled here grapple with the issues of 'creativity and collaboration' much is revealed about the way theatre companies across the continent face the challenges of financial constraints, the political complications…
Literary Theatre after the Generals
Let me explain right from the outset that I have chosen the term ‘after the generals’ only as a convenient shorthand. In fact what I mean is something like ‘after the notorious dictatorships of the later half of the last century in Africa south of the Sahara’. Some of these, as you know, were military regimes, like those of Eyadema, Bokassa, Mobutu or Abacha (graphically satirized in Soyinka's A Play of Giants ), but quite a number were also civi…
Yorùbá Theatre in Crisis
Les « humanités » contribuent-elles à l'humanisation
Opium
A Rebirth in African Theatre
Theater and the Rites of ?Post-Negritude? Remembering
o judge from all the clamor in contemporary literary discourse, it would seem that we are back, we black writers, to the days of Negritude, and that the most acute subject of our writing is once again the rediscovery and reaffirmation of our cultural values, and the reinscription of our racial identity on the pages of history. The white man, to consolidate his military, territorial, and economic conquests over us, has inscribed us within a grand …
‘The Revolution as Muse’
We might say then ... that Osofisan's play is, ultimately, a celebration of the Revolution as Muse.(Abiola Irele)
The Alternative Tradition
The Alternative Tradition
‘The Revolution as Muse’
We might say then ... that Osofisan's play is, ultimately, a celebration of the Revolution as Muse.(Abiola Irele)
Theater and the Rites of ?Post-Negritude? Remembering
o judge from all the clamor in contemporary literary discourse, it would seem that we are back, we black writers, to the days of Negritude, and that the most acute subject of our writing is once again the rediscovery and reaffirmation of our cultural values, and the reinscription of our racial identity on the pages of history. The white man, to consolidate his military, territorial, and economic conquests over us, has inscribed us within a grand …
Opium
A Rebirth in African Theatre
Yorùbá Theatre in Crisis
Les « humanités » contribuent-elles à l'humanisation
African Theatre 7
Profiles theatre companies in Africa working creatively in the context of financial and political constraints. A close scrutiny of how theatre companies operate is an often neglected aspect of theatre life in Africa, yet, as companies profiled here grapple with the issues of 'creativity and collaboration' much is revealed about the way theatre companies across the continent face the challenges of financial constraints, the political complications…
Literary Theatre after the Generals
Let me explain right from the outset that I have chosen the term ‘after the generals’ only as a convenient shorthand. In fact what I mean is something like ‘after the notorious dictatorships of the later half of the last century in Africa south of the Sahara’. Some of these, as you know, were military regimes, like those of Eyadema, Bokassa, Mobutu or Abacha (graphically satirized in Soyinka's A Play of Giants ), but quite a number were also civi…
African Theatre 9
African Theatre 11
Contributors examine how international theatre festivals have been organised and how they have affected the evolution of sustainable theatre. During the last fifty years, large sums of money, huge resources of labour and vast amounts of creative energy have been invested in international theatre festivals in Africa. Under banners such as 'Reclaiming the African Past' and 'African Renaissance', the festival participants have used the performing ar…
African Theatre 12
African Theatre 14
African Theatre 15
African Theatre 15
Interweaving as a living theatre practice
Christel Weiler: Today, right now, when so many migrants are arriving in Europe, the key question surely centres on what it might mean to live together? How can we cope with this situation and how
Pa Fálétí, Another Icon Departs
Pa Fálétí is gone, never more to answer our calls or supplications, except from the other side, in the surrogate voice of an ancestor. But we do not mourn him. Rather, the mourning is for ourselves, for those of us left behind. What we mourn indeed is not his passing, but the void that stares us in the face, the apprehension we feel that there is no immediate successor to replace him. But still, we have to accept this not as a defeat but a collec…
Art (10 works) · History (10 works) · African history and culture studies (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works)