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Nigeria’s Femi Osofisan (aka Okinba Launko) is currently emeritus professor of drama and theatre at the university of Ibadan, Nigeria. A restless artist and multiple award winner, he wears many caps—as activist playwright, poet, biographer, novelist, journalist, actor, director, song writer, editor, etc. His plays have been performed in different countries all over the world and in 2016, Osofisan became the first African ever to win the international Thalia Prize. This is second play in Osofisan’s Africa and the Diaspora Series, after Nkrumah-ni…Africa-ni! : Nkrumah’s Exile Years in Conakry. Commissioned by the WEB DuBois Memorial Centre in Accra, and first performed in 1997, the play deals with the last days of the great Dr DuBois’ sojourn in Accra, just before he died—a period that is not much written about. The play has since been produced in other cities, including Ibadan, Nigeria, and Carbondale, USA.
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