Nigeria\u2019s Femi Osofisan (aka Okinba Launko) is currently emeritus professor of drama and theatre
\nat the university of Ibadan, Nigeria. A restless artist and multiple award winner, he wears many cap
\n\u2014as activist playwright, poet, biographer, novelist, journalist, actor, director, song writer, editor, etc.
\nHis plays have been performed in different countries all over the world and in 2016, Osofisan
\nbecame the first African ever to win the international Thalia Prize. This is the first of three plays
\ndealing with the issue of Pan-Africanism, and the role of our brothers and sisters in the Diaspora in
\nthe agenda of black unification, total liberation, and future development. Specifically, the play
\nfocuses on the regime of Kwame Nkrumah, leader of the first African country to gain political
\nindependence from the British, in 1957 and the first African leader to consciously invite African
\nAmericans to the continent and make Accra a sort of Mecca for all liberation movements. Sadly,
\nhe was overthrown in 1966 and went to live in Conakry with Sekou Toure, the Guinean leader, for
\nwhat he thought would be a brief interlude, but which in the end lasted for over six years till his
\ndeath. As it says in its title, the play deals with incidents from Nkrumah\u2019s exile years in Conakry,
\nwhere he met and held discussions almost daily with Sekou Toure, and Amilcar Cabral . It was
\ncommissioned and first performed for the African Literature Association\u2019s meeting in Accra\u2014its
\nfirst ever meeting on the African soil\u2014in 1994, then a year later with great success at Colombo
\n(with the playwright directing jointly with Dr Neloufer del Mel), and later revived as part of the
\nceremonies marking Ghana\u2019s 50th independence anniversary in Accra. Anyone interested in Pan
\nAfricanism and the story of African independence especially in the early years, will gain
\nconsiderably from reading or watching this play.<\/p>\n
ISBN: 978-1-943533-62-6 \u0399 Published 2023 \u0399 Pan-African University Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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