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During the 1950s, he toured various Nigerian cities with his travelling troupe. In 1964, he released Yoruba Ronu, a play that generated controversy and earned him the wrath of Chief Akintola, premier of the Western Region. The Ogunde Theater was banned in the Western Region of Nigeria for two years as a result.
One of the main innovations of Oba Kò So was that it departed from the traditional Yoruba folk opera and entered into a new postcolonial chapter of Yoruba theater that aimed to reclaim the traditional Yoruba poetry, music, and dance rituals that were denounced by the European colonial powers that promoted the retelling of stories from the ...
Born: Hubert Ogunde, Nigerian playwright, founder of the Ogunde Theatre Party, the first professional theatre company in the country, author of Yoruba Ronu, in Ososa, Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, Nigeria (d.
His most famous play, Ọba kò so (The King did not Hang), a dramatization of the traditional Yoruba story of how Ṣango became the Orisha of Thunder, received international acclaim at the first Commonwealth Arts Festival in 1965 and on a Europe an tour, where a Berlin critic, Ulli Beier, compared Ladipọ to Karajan. [1]
The mother drum, being whichever is the biggest in a set and playing the lead role while other drums play in support. [3] The Gbedu backing drums are each played by a drummer using both his open palm and a stick. [4] Among the Yoruba, the Gbedu drum signifies royalty. [5] The largest of the Yoruba drums, it is played during important functions. [6]
Ayo (Yoruba: Ayò Ọlọ́pọ́n) is a traditional mancala played by the Yoruba people in Nigeria. It is very close to the Oware game that spread to the Americas with the atlantic slave trade. Among modern mancalas, which are most often derived from Warri, the Kalah is a notable one that has essentially the same rules as Ayo.
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Obey was born on 3 April 1942 [2] to an Egba–Yoruba ethnic background family. Obey, whose real names are Ebenezer Remilekun Aremu Olasupo Fabiyi, was born in Idogo, Ogun State, Nigeria of Egba-Yoruba ethnic background. He is of the Owu subgroup of the Egba.