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CBCIU/PARTNERS HOST INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM IN HONOUR OF PRINCE (DR.) OYIN ADEJOBI
On Wednesday, 18 December, , the Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding (CBCIU), in partnership with the Department of Theatre Arts, Osun State University, Osogbo and Redeemer’s University, Ede, organised an International Colloquium to celebrate the life, legacy, and profound influence of the iconic theatre arts practitioner, Prince (Dr.) Oyin Adejobi. The event honoured a man whose artistic genius sparked cultural awareness and transformed the landscape of Yoruba theatre in Nigeria.
In his Welcome Address, Director of the CBCIU, Professor Siyan Oyeweso, highlighted that Oyin Adejobi was more than an actor, a visionary, cultural custodian and a storyteller whose work transcended Nigeria’s borders, leaving a lasting imprint on the global stage.
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You are here: Home Resources Events International Colloquium in honour of Prince (Dr.) Oyin Adejobi
CBCIU/PARTNERS HOST INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM IN HONOUR OF PRINCE (DR.) OYIN ADEJOBI
On Wednesday, 18 December, , the Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding (CBCIU), in partnership with the Department of Theatre Arts, Osun State University, Osogbo and Redeemer’s University, Ede, organised an International Colloquium to celebrate the life, legacy, and profound influence of the iconic theatre arts practitioner, Prince (Dr.) Oyin Adejobi. The event honoured a man whose artistic genius sparked cultural awareness and transformed the landscape of Yoruba theatre in Nigeria.
In his Welcome Address, Director of the CBCIU, Professor Siyan Oyeweso, highlighted that Oyin Adejobi was more than an actor, a visionary, cultural custodian and a storyteller whose work transcended Nigeria’s borders, leaving a lasting imprint on the global stage.
Through his celebrated plays
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Title: Ìyá Òṣogbo: Life and Times of Grace Owoola Oyin-Adejobi
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Author: Vincent Akindele
Reviewer: Bukola Martins-Adediran
Publisher: Hinds’ passform Communication Limited, Ibadan
At the first, cursory glance Ìyá Òṣogbo: Life and Times of Grace Owoola Oyin-Adejobi may seem like any other biography to the reader. However, its structure and redogörelse makes this captivating book an uncommon work of art replete with unique features. It stands out in ganska a number of ways: carefully and consciously written to satisfy both English and Yoruba-speaking fans of Ìyá Òṣogbo – a veritable, kvinna pioneer thespian in the Alarinjo (travelling theatre) tradition of the Yoruba, colonial era scen in Nigeria. The Yoruba texts are presented in comprehensible terms using the Yoruba diacritics, that fryst vatten, the Yoruba tone marks and sub-dots. Another unique feature fryst vatten the question and answer segment part of the book, which fryst vatten translated to Yoruba