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of court rooms. Instead of legal jargon, there is humour, arguments and counter arguments. What the author arrives at is not to prove which gender is superior but to show the complementary roles of men and women. There is a great deal of wit in the work and the setting here is the university environment where the youthful contenders are idealistic.
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had his first theatre experience in 1975, at the age of 11, when he saw a revival of this very play, performed in a reconstructed Greek amphitheatre at a university campus in Ife; and brought it to the UK shores as a
British leading theatre director under the company name
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materialised at the Amphi Africa
Theater when he was being put to rest as the crowd was drawn to a manuscript of the day's program outline. People made dramatic entry and exit to the stage around his casket with the man turning his casket.
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Books that contain his significant contributions (see notes for more information) are marked with a percentage(%); Conference publications are marked with an asterisk (*); thesis or dissertations are marked with a dagger (†) below.
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Nutsukpo, Margaret Fafa. "Beyond
Adaptation: The Representation of Women in Ola Rotimi's The Gods Are Not To Blame." International Journal 9, no. 2 (2019).
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309:. Owing, in part, to political conditions in Nigeria, Rotimi spent much of the 1990s living in the Caribbean and the United States, where he taught at
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Ola Rotimi & Dapọ Adelugba (editor): LACE occasional publications v. 1, no. 3, Dept. of
Theatre Arts, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, 1984.
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The works are also a social satire and this publication will spur renewed interest in his satires. Rotimi is sure to be remembered as a model in the
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A Dictionary of
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Kikelomo, and Samuel Ayodele Dada. "A demographic analysis of proverbs in Rotimis historical tragedies."
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Odebunmi, Akin. "Pragmatic functions of crisis-motivated proverbs in Ola Rotimi's The Gods Are Not to Blame." (2008).
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Adegbite, Wale. "Pragmatic tactics in diplomatic communication: a case study of Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi."
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ANIGBOGU, Ngozi Chidinma, and Festus C. AHIZIH. "LANGUAGE USE IN OLA ROTIMI’S'THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME'."
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A Pragmatic Analysis of Proverbs in Selected Works of Ola Rotimi
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1528:"BIOGRAPHY OF OLAWALE GLADSTONE EMMANUEL ROTIMI (OLA ROTIMI)"
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Socialscientia: Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
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Rotimi was the son of Samuel Gladstone Enitan Rotimi a
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David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University alumni
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The Cambridge Guide to African & Caribbean Theatre
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Ovọnramwẹn Nọgbaisi: An Historical Tragedy in English
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386:African Dramatic Literature: To Be or to Become?
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764:The Masquerade in Nigerian history and culture
561:is a coincidental meeting of two fellows from
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1487:"Ola Rotimi | Nigerian scholar and dramatist"
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1358:, Heinemann Educational Books, 1983, p. 474.
1611:"A study of nigerian dramatist ola rotimi"
1517:, Cambridge University Press, 1994, p. 81.
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690:Understanding "The Gods Are Not to Blame"
1776:A study of Nigerian dramatist Ola Rotimi
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711:Playwriting and Directing in Nigeria
573:First performed in Nigeria in 1968,
457:—an adaptation of the Greek classic
1791:Nigerian dramatists and playwrights
1285:, Kurunmi Adventures, Lagos, 1983.
1261:Thandie Lerato Pilane, Ola Rotimi,
1215:Introduction to Nigerian Literature
1185:Two Unpublished Plays of Ola Rotimi
738:Introduction to Nigerian literature
19:For other people named Rotimi, see
1866:Methodist Boys' High School alumni
1699:Studies in Literature and Language
826:"The trials of African literature"
823:"Through whom the spirits breathe"
786:Diversity of Creativity in Nigeria
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1087:Holding Talks: An absurdist drama
817:"How the kingfisher learned fear"
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1747:Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds
525:When the Criminals Become Judges
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854:African Papers, 1963, 1968–1989
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1554:"Ola Rotimi – DAWN Commission"
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876:Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again
829:"Everyone his/her own problem"
814:"Conversation with Ola Rotimi"
792:African Theatre in Performance
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278:Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again
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440:To Stir the God of Iron
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365:Later plays, such as
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911:Ovonramwen Nogbaisi
832:"No direction home"
668:Ovọnramwẹn Nọgbaisi
585:, London, in 2005.
480:Ovonramven Nogbaisi
351:Ovonramwen Nogbaisi
315:St. Paul, Minnesota
154:Ovonramwen Nogbaisi
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