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Ola Rotimi
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Ola Rotimi
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The Epilogue
Ola Rotini, the great Nigerian playwright, died in 2000. He was reworking two of his plays:îMan Talk, Women Talkî and ìTororo, Tororo, Roroî. They are now published posthumously, and represent an epilogue to his career as a theatre artist and comic playwright. In the first play, Rotimi seeks, with wry humour, resolution of the biases men and women hold against one another; and in the second, the lessons of sharing other peopleís problems are illuminated with comic effect. Effiok B. Unwatt is an Associate Professor of Literature, and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Abuja. He is a former Head of the Department of English and Literary Studies.
Playwriting and Directing in Nigeria
A compendium of interviews with the late Ola Rotimi, who is perhaps Nigeria's foremost dramatist of the twentieth century. This edition brings together interviews which Rotimi has given over the past thirty years, some of which were published in occasional journals, and some of which have never previously been published. The interviewers are for the most part leading scholars in the fields of African literature and the dramatic arts: Bernth Lindfors, Onuora Ossie Enekwe, Margaret Floarin, Eldred Titus Green and Bassey Uwatt. The interviews present Rotimi's views on a range of subjects. As a whole, the collection reflects the development in his work and thought over time, and in light of the changing social and political and cultural context. Some subjects addressed are: African identity, academic influences and artistic ambition; the literary heritages of his tragedies, comedies and historical plays; socio-political context and socio-political drama; the craft and form of drama; Nigerian drama, language and authenticity; theatre and teaching in Africa and North America; and the dramatist's commitment to Africa and the Third World.
Portraiture of the Nigerian Conundrum in Ola Rotimi’s "The Gods are not to Blame"
Academic Paper from the year 2014 in the subject African Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: This paper attempts reading Ola Rotimi’s "The Gods are not to blame" against the backdrop of the Nigerian dilemma in the contemporary times. The play first performed in the year 1968, in the heat of the Nigerian civil war is still relevant today. Many scholars viewed the work as a transplantation of Sophocle’s Oedipus Rex and underplay its powerful political message to the nascent Nigerian political class then and now. The paper examined the role of Odewale in the shaping of the Destiny of his society and how albeit with stint of tyranny champions the welfare of the state, taking...
