Olawale Gladstone Emmanuel Rotimi, best known as Ola Rotimi (13 April 1938 – 18 August 2000), was one of Nigeria's leading playwrights and theatre directors...
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The Gods Are Not To Blame is a 1968 play and a 1971 novel by Ola Rotimi. An adaptation of the Greek classic Oedipus Rex, the story centres on Odewale,...
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Has Gone Mad Again is a play by Olawale Gladstone Emmanuel Rotimi, best known as Ola Rotimi. The play centers around the entry of a former military Major...
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Nigerian general, diplomat and politician Ola Rotimi (1938–2000), Nigerian playwrights and theatre director Sunday Rotimi (born 1980), Nigerian football goalkeeper...
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of Honor Ola Möller (born 1983), Swedish politician Ola Otnes (born 1951), Norwegian actor Ola Rapace (born 1971), Swedish actor Ola Rotimi (1938–2000)...
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Nigeria. Archived from the original on 31 March 2016. Retrieved 7 June 2016. Ola, Erinfolami (28 February 2014). "Nollywood Celebrities Birthday". Naijagists...
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Grip Am is a play by Olawale Gladstone Emmanuel Rotimi, best known as Ola Rotimi, a playwright and theatre director. The play centers around Isa, a poor...
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scholar, chief Ola Rotimi. Kola Oyewo was known for the role he played as "Odewale" in The Gods Are Not to Blame, a drama by Ola Rotimi. In 1996, Oyewo...
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late 2008, starring Ralph Fiennes and Claire Higgins. In the late 1960s Ola Rotimi published a novel and play, The Gods Are Not to Blame, which retell the...
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Femi Osofisan Funso Aiyejina Helen Oyeyemi Lola Shoneyin Natasha Bowen Ola Rotimi Olufemi Terry Pelu Awofeso Sophie Oluwole Tade Thompson Taiye Selasi Teju...
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on Latin, as "a medium not dead but turned to stone." Nigerian writer Ola Rotimi adapted Oedipus Rex into a 1968 play and novel, titling it The Gods Are...
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joined the Olokun Theatre group under the tutelage of the late Professor Ola Rotimi, a renowned dramatist and prolific playwright at the University of Ife...
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David Rayfiel – Playwriting (1950) Keith Reddin – Playwriting (1981) Ola Rotimi – Playwriting (1966) Joanna Russ – Playwriting (1960) Robert Sandberg...
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Abiola Oba Otudeko (b. 1943), businessman Obafemi Awolowo (1909–1987) Ola Rotimi Olabisi Onabanjo Oladipo Diya Olamide Olawunmi Banjo Olusegun Obasanjo...
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(January 2005). Ola Rotimi's African Theatre: The Development of an Indigenous Aesthetic. E. Mellen Press. ISBN 978-0-7734-6147-5. Ola Rotimi (January 1988)...
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singer and composer Endurance Ojokolo, athlete Blessing Okagbare, athlete Ola Rotimi, playwright "Sapele | Infoplease". www.infoplease.com. Retrieved 4 June...
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Oyěwùmí Remi Sonaiya (born 1955) Remi Raji (born 1961), poet, academic Ola Rotimi (1938–2000), novelist, theatre director and playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa (1941–1995)...
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Nigerian states. Akeredolu was born on 21 July 1956 in Owo to Reverend J. Ola Akeredolu of the Akeredolu family and Lady Evangelist Grace B. Akeredolu...
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published by this imprint include Wole Soyinka, Obi Egbuna, J. P. Clark, Ola Rotimi, and Barbara Kimenye. MacPhee, Josh (1 December 2014), "Three Crowns Africa"...
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Babalola Chinedum Peace – pharmacist Olikoye Ransome-Kuti – paediatrician Ola Rotimi – playwright Omowunmi Sadik – chemist Lateef Akinola Salako – pharmacologist...
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Plays relating to the events include Ovonramwen N' Ogbaisi, written by Ola Rotimi (1971); and The Trials of Oba Ovonramwen, written by Ahmed Yerima (1997);[citation...
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television series, Hotel de Jordan and also performed in a rendition of Ola Rotimi's The Gods are Not to Blame. In 1977, he left sales for a career in theatre...
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player and manager, heart attack. Bernard Krainis, 75, American musician. Ola Rotimi, 62, Nigerian playwright and theatre director. Morton Shulman, 75, Canadian...
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critic, he worked with noted dramatists and writers such as Wole Soyinka, Ola Rotimi, John Pepper Clark and Abiola Irele, he later edited celebratory books...
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anglophone and francophone poetry Ogbonnaya Onu, chemical engineering Ola Rotimi, theatre arts Kay Williamson – linguist who specialised in the study of...
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cultural heritage. Literary works by Yoruba authors like Wole Soyinka and Ola Rotimi have explored Omoluwabi themes, examining the complexities of human nature...
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Penina Mlama, Femi Osofisan, Sandra Richards, Amowi Sutherland Phillips, Ola Rotimi, Margaret Watts, Henry Wellington, and Vivian Windley. Writer, poet, lecturer...
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Ile-Ife Olusegun Osoba - first civilian Governor, Ogun State, Nigeria Ola Rotimi - renowned playwright and author Lateef Akinola Salako - National Merit...
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sexuality, race and culture through stylised portraits and compositions. Rotimi Fani-Kayode was born in Lagos, Nigeria, in April 1955, as the second child...
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23 March 2023. Retrieved 23 March 2023. Fashagba, Joseph Yinka; Ajayi, Ola-Rotimi Matthew; Nwankwor, Chiedo, eds. (2019). "The Nigerian National Assembly"...
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