Femi Osofisan's
Works
Adesola Adeyemi
MA Candidate, Drama Studies Department, University
of Natal, Pietermaritzburg
Creative Works: Drama
- 1996 Reel Rwanda!
- 1967 Behind the Ballot Box
- 1968 Oduduwa Don't Go!
- 1975 A Restless
Run of Locusts
- 1976 The Chattering and
the Song
- 1978 Who's Afraid of
Solarin?
- 1980 Once Upon Four
Robbers
- 1983 Morountodun and Other
Plays [containing Morountodun, Red
is the Freedom Road and No More the
Wasted Breed]
- 1984 Once Upon Other
Robbers
- 1986 Farewell To A Cannibal
Rage
- ---- Midnight Hotel
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1987 Two Short Plays [containing Altine's
Wrath and The Oriki of A Grasshopper]
- 1989 Another Raft
- 1990
Birthdays Are Not For Dying and Other Plays
[containing Birthdays Are Not For Dying,
Fires Burn and Die Hard
and The Inspector and the Hero]
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1991 Esu and the Vagabond Minstrels
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1992 Aringindin and the Nightwatchmen
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1993 Yungba Yungba and the Dance Contest
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1994 The Album of the Midnight Blackout
- ---- Ire Ni!
- ----
Nkrumah-Ni!...Africa-Ni!
- ---- Tegonni, An
African Antigone
- 1995 The Oriki of A
Grasshopper and Other Plays
- ----
Twingle-Twangle, A Twynning Tayle
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---- The Engagement
- 1996 One
Legend, Many Seasons
- ---- Fiddlers on a
Midnight Lark
- ---- Making Children is
Fun
- 1997 Many Colors Make the
Thunder-King
Television Scripts
[written in 1982 as an experimental
project - The Visitors - on the Broadcasting
Corporation of Oyo State (BCOS) Television, Ibadan
with the Unibadan Performing Company]
- To
Kill A Dream
- At the Petrol Station
- Operation
Abandoned
- The New Cathedral
- A Success
Story
- Operation Rat-trap
- And Fear Comes
Calling
- The Audience Also Dances
- A Debt to
the Dead
- A Date With Danger
Poetry [as Okinba Launko]
- 1988
Minted Coins
- 1993 Dreamseeker On
Divining Chain
Novelettes
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1975 Kolera Kolej
- 1989 Cordelia
- 1994 Ma'ami
Monographs
and Others
- 1974 "The Quality of
Hurt: The New Voices - A Survey of Recent Nigerian
Poetry"
- 1975 "Anubis Resurgent: Chaos
and Political Vision in Recent Literature"
- ---- "The
Environment as Hero: A Note on The
Interpreters"
- 1977 "Literacy As
Suicide: Artist and Audience in Contemporary Nigerian
Society"
- ---- "Criticism and the Sixteen Palmnuts:
The Role of Critics In an Age of Illiteracy"
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1978 "Tiger on Stage: Wole Soyinka and the
Nigerian Theatre"
- ---- "The Nostalgic Drum: Oral
Literature and the Possibilities of Modern African
Poetry"
- 1981 "Festac and the Heritage of
Ambiguity"
- ---- "Domestication of An Opiate:
Western Paraesthetics and the Growth of the Ekwensi
Tradition"
- ---- "Do the Humanities Humanize? - A
Dramatist's Encounter With Anarchy and the Nigerian
Intellectual Culture" (Les Humanites humanisent-ils? -
Discours (peu) academique)
- 1982
"Wonderland and the Orality of Prose: a Comparatist
Excursion into the World of Tutuola, Rabelais, and
Joyce"
- ---- "Ritual and the Revolutionary Ethos:
The Humanist Dilemma in Contemporary Nigerian
Theatre"
- 1983 Theatre and
Nationalism [Translation of Theatre
et Nationalism by Alain Ricard from French to
English]
- 1984 "Drama and the New
Exotic: The Paradox of Form in Contemporary
Theatre"
- 1985 "Beyond Translation: A
Comparatist Look at Tragic Paradigms and the
Dramaturgy of Wole Soyinka and Ola Rotimi"
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1986 "The Alternative Tradition:
A Survey of Nigerian Literature After the Civil War"
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---- "The Place of Theatre In The Cultural Development
of Nigeria"
- 1987 "The Author As
Sociologist: Cultural Obstacles to the Development of
Literature in Nigeria"
- 1992 "The Writer,
the Artist and the Journalist as Mirrors of the Nation's
Ethos"
- 1994 "West African Drama in
English"
- ---- "The Monolitic Cult"
- ---- "Wole
Soyinka and a Living Dramatist"
- 1995
"Medium of Change/Change of Medium: Reflections
on Theatre Practice in Contemporary Nigeria"
- ----
"Rotten English, Rotten Nation: An Improvisation from
the Perspective of Drama"
- 1996 "Warriors
of a Failed Utopia? - West African Writers since the
70s"
