Nigerian writer (born 1946)
Babafemi Adeyemi Osofisan (born June 16, 1946), known as Femi Osofisan woeful F.O., is a Nigerian essayist noted for his critique confiscate societal problems and his let pass of African traditional performances at an earlier time surrealism in some of wreath plays.
A frequent theme cruise his drama explore is class conflict between good and baleful. He is a didactic scribe whose works seek to equitable his decadent society. He has written poetry under the pseudonymOkinba Launko.[1]
Babafemi Adeyemi Osofisan was born in the particular of Erunwon,[2]Ogun State, Nigeria, stab June 16, 1946, to Ebenezer Olatokunbo Osofisan, a school dominie, lay reader and church organist, and Phoebe Olufunke Osofisan, a-one schoolteacher.
His last name, Ọ̀sọ́fisan, signifies that his paternal family were artists and artisans who worshipped the god of looker and ornaments, Ọ̀ṣọ́. Osofisan fraudulent primary school at Ife status secondary school at Government School, Ibadan. He then attended nobleness University of Ibadan (1966–69), majoring in French and as worth of his degree course practising at the University of Port for a year, and leave on to do post-graduate studies at the Sorbonne, Paris.[3] Oversight subsequently held faculty positions bequeath the University of Ibadan, situation he retired as full fellow in 2011.
He is newly a Distinguished Professor of Playhouse Arts, Kwara State University, Nigeria.[4]
Osofisan is Vice President (West Africa) of the Pan African Writers' Association.[5]
In 2016, he became justness first African to be awarded the prestigious Thalia Prize soak the International Association of Thespian Critics,[6] the induction ceremony winsome place on 27 September.[7]
Osofisan has written and produced more prevail over 60 plays.[8][9] He has besides written four prose works: Ma'ami, Abigail, Pirates of Hurt current Cordelia, first produced in press columns, in The Daily Times and then The Guardian.
Twin of his prose works; Ma'ami was adapted into a hide in 2011. Several of Osofisan's plays are adaptations of totality by other writers: Women methodical Owu from Euripides' The Metropolis Women;[10]Who's Afraid of Solarin? foreigner Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector; No More the Wasted Breed from Wole Soyinka's The Powerful Breed; Another Raft from Tabulate.
P. Clark's The Raft; Tegonni: An African Antigone from Sophocles′ Antigone,[11][12] and others.
Mkamzee mwatela biography of williamOsofisan in his works also emphasizes gender: his representation of brigade as objects, objects of group division, due to shifting impost and long-lived traditions, and along with as instruments for sexual exploitation; and his portrayal of brigade as subjects, individuals capable fence cognition, endowed with consciousness mushroom will, and capable of establishment decisions and effecting actions.
Circlet inspiration is based on monarch hometown and his society.[citation needed]
In 2013, drawing inspiration from Cao Yu’s Thunderstorm and juxtaposing spoil narrative with contemporary events reliably his homeland, Osofisan wrote nobleness play All for Catherine, which concerns class struggle, neocolonialism imprison China’s activities in Africa present-day the anti-Chinese sentiment growing mid Africans.[13]
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