{"id":13126,"date":"2024-04-03T22:11:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T22:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panafricanuniversitypress.com\/company\/?post_type=product&#038;p=13126"},"modified":"2024-05-25T10:20:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T10:20:57","slug":"a-nightingale-for-dr-dubois-by-femi-osofisan","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/panafricanuniversitypress.com\/company\/product\/a-nightingale-for-dr-dubois-by-femi-osofisan\/","title":{"rendered":"A Nightingale for Dr Dubois by Femi Osofisan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"B0C7RX4RWW\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"fs9u40-nxj8cb-iob3qb-ixsa5b\" data-cel-widget=\"bookDescription_feature_div\">\n<div class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\">\n<div class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Nigeria\u2019s 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\u2014as 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\u2019s Africa and the Diaspora Series, after Nkrumah-ni\u2026Africa-ni! : Nkrumah\u2019s 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\u2019 sojourn in Accra, just before he died\u2014a period that is not much written about. The play has since been produced in other cities, including Ibadan, Nigeria, and Carbondale, USA.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s 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\u2014as activist playwright, poet, biographer, novelist, journalist, actor, director, song writer, editor, etc. His plays have been performed in different countries all over the world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[97,105],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13126","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-africa","7":"product_cat-play","9":"first","10":"instock","11":"shipping-taxable","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-simple"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panafricanuniversitypress.com\/company\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/13126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panafricanuniversitypress.com\/company\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panafricanuniversitypress.com\/company\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panafricanuniversitypress.com\/company\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/panafricanuniversitypress.com\/company\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/13126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13128,"href":"https:\/\/panafricanuniversitypress.com\/company\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/13126\/revisions\/13128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panafricanuniversitypress.com\/company\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panafricanuniversitypress.com\/company\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panafricanuniversitypress.com\/company\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=13126"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panafricanuniversitypress.com\/company\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=13126"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panafricanuniversitypress.com\/company\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=13126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}