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In 2005, President Olusegun Obasanjo announced plans to privatise the National Theatre. This sparked controversy amongst Nigerian entertainers and playwrights like Wole Soyinka [3] On 30 December 2014, it was reported that the National Theatre has been sold to a Dubai-based conglomerate for the sum of 31.5 billion naira, and that the building will be converted to a duty-free shopping centre.
Chief Hubert Adedeji Ogunde D.Lit. (// ⓘ; 10 July 1916 – 4 April 1990) was a Nigerian actor, playwright, theatre manager, and musician who founded the first contemporary professional theatrical company in Nigeria, the African Music Research Party, in 1945.
Legend has it that Adikpo Songo from Akpagher; Mbatyav in the present day Gboko local government area of Benue State, Nigeria, was the originator of Kwagh-hir.Adikpo Songu, in an interview with Iyorwuese Hagher, a scholar of Kwagh-hir, attempted to corroborate this view held by several kwagh-hir group leaders and notable elders in Tivland.
History. The success of Yoruba theatre practitioners can never be overemphasized without mentioning the doyen of theatre play in person of Chief Hubert Adedeji Ogunde when he started his first group which synchronised the body of theatre dramatists in his time when he created the Africa Musical Research Party in the year 1945 [1]. This ...
sucs Mark Angel (born 27 May 1991) is a Nigerian scriptwriter and YouTuber. He is best known for the Mark Angel Comedy series of shorts on YouTube, often featuring child comedians such as his cousin, Emmanuella Samuel (age 14), [2] his niece, [3] and her cousin "Aunty" Success Madubuike (age 16).
Before his start in professional theatre, Ogunmola was a schoolmaster in Ado-Ekiti. [3] At Emmanuel School, Ado-Ekiti, Ogunmola created school plays performed by students inside and sometimes outside the school. He formed his drama troupe, Ogunmola's Theatre Party around some of the pupils and his fellow teachers.
Nwazuluwa Onuekwuke "Zulu" Sofola (22 June 1935 – 5 September 1995) [1] was the first published female Nigerian playwright and dramatist. [2] Sofola was also a university teacher and became the first female Professor of Theater Arts in Africa .
Olawale Gladstone Emmanuel Rotimi, best known as Ola Rotimi (13 April 1938 – 18 August 2000), [1] was one of Nigeria's leading playwrights and theatre directors. He has been called "a complete man of the theatre [2] – an actor, director, choreographer and designer – who created performance spaces, influenced by traditional architectural forms."