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Abstract. Ola Rotimi's Kurunmi has generally been classified as a tragedy, historical play, postcolonial text, satire etc. Such general classifica- tions have limited ...

by O Animashaun — The setting of the Ola Rotimi's dramatic work Kurunmi was an accurate account of the historical event, (Johnson, 1973:331-360), despite the introduction of artistic ...

Key Words: Man, Aristotelian concept of tragedy, Kurunmi, tragic flaw, tragic vision, ... Ola Rotimi‟s Kurunmi was chosen to illustrate the point because a cursory ...5 pages

by O Animashaun · 2019 — The Hero in Ola Rotimi's Play Kurunmi: A Preserver or … 12. (Ayodabo, 2016). His works illustrate contemporary Nigerian socio- political and historical issues ...

I focus my analysis on Ola Rotimi's Kurunmi (1971). The textual ... Rotimi's play, Kurunmi (1971) is built on the history of the Ibadan-Ijaye war which took place as.19 pages

by OO Jegede · Cited by 1 — Achebe, Zulu Sofola, Zainab Alkali, T. M. Aluko, and Ola Rotimi among others. As good as ... African proverbs used by Ola Rotimi in Kurunmi. The contexts in ...9 pages

by ARA Adeoye · 2015 · Cited by 2 — the plays of Ola Rotimi as they experiment with language use in the African theatre. ... Kurunmi, who is also the defender of tradition, Kurunmi, captures the.

by A Coker · 1992 · Cited by 1 — Again, 1966; The Gods Are Not to Blame, 1968; Kurunmi, 1971;. Ovonramwen Nogbaisi, 1972; Holding Talks, 1977; IF, 1979; and. Hopes of the Living Dead, 1984 ...

by T AZEEZ · Cited by 3 — Ola Rotimi and wale Ogunyemi are perhaps the closest dramatists in English to the traditional performing arts in Nigeria in terms of the use of oral tradition and ...13

by VO Adeniyi · 2018 — the Marxist aesthetics and ideology in Ola Rotimi's If: A Tragedy of the Ruled ( 1983) and ... As such, Kurunmi is a drama of the ruling class and the playwright is a ...

by B CROW · 2000 · Cited by 10 — Rotimi and Femi Osofisan. I want to ... In what he calls his "historical tragedies," Ola Rotimi shares ... Kurunmi ( 1969) is firmly structured around the theme

by OO Oso · 2018 · Cited by 1 — Ola Rotimi's. Kurunmi and Toyin Abiodun's The Trials of Afonja exemplify historical African plays which have been copiously previously studied.

Again~ The Gods Are Not To Blame, Oba Ovonramwen and Kurunmi ... 4 OlaRotimi, Kurunmi(BeninCity:EthiopePublishingCorporationandlbadan: Univ.

Again~ The Gods Are Not To Blame, Oba Ovonramwen and Kurunmi ... 4 OlaRotimi, Kurunmi(BeninCity:EthiopePublishingCorporationandlbadan: Univ.

by AN Obika — Historical Implications in the Plays of Ola Rotimi: A Study of Kurunmi, Ovonramwen Nogbaisi and the Gods Are Not to Blame. By. Aloy Nnamdi Obika, PhD.

by TJ Ikyoive · 2017 — Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's horseman (1975), Ola Rotimi's Kurunmi ... male character commits suicide), In Kurunmi (1971) by Ola Rotimi (Kurunmi.

Death and the King's Horseman; two plays by Ola Rotimi, Kurunmi and Ovonramwen Nogbaisi. (The Gods Are Not To Blame is excluded on the rather specious ...

guished Nigerian playwrights who had directed productions there: Ola Rotimi and ... As a matter of fact, we did stage Kurunmi in the Oduduwa Hall amphitheatre.

in Ola Rotimi's Kurunmi and Ovonramwen Nogbaisi. Samuel Okoronkwo and Chukwu-Okoronkwo. Department of Theatre Arts, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, ...

sponsorship of a Nigerian classic featured Ola Rotimi's Kurunmi, directed by Olu Akomolafe ... Rotimi and his colleagues in the old Institute of African Studies in.

lenges Kurunmi (play by Ola Rotimi 1969), even if one war was European and the other was 'Ogun. Ijaye'. 9 Both characters are human; both are victims of war.

In this unit, we will examine Ola Rotimi‟s 2 plays namely: Man Talk Woman ... Kurunmi, which the playwright terms “an historical tragedy” is a play that deals.74 pages

1 Ojuola by Lekan Balogun is an appropriation of Rotimi's The Gods are not to ... different plays by Ola Rotimi, like Kurunmi, Ovonramwen Nogbaisi, The Gods ...

by CE Nwabudike · 2017 — Viewed from a sociolinguistic perspective, Yoruba proverbs exemplified by those used by Ola Rotimi in The Gods Are Not to Blame and Kurunmi especially, reveal  ...

by OS Elegbeleye · 2003 · Cited by 1 — manifestation of affective bias in Ola Rotimi through his drama~is persorlae especially the ... kurunrni. the eponymous hero of the historical tragedy - Kur

Table 3: Proverbs as a characterization device in Kurunmi. 167 ... Ola Rotimi: The gods are not to blame, Kurunmi and Our husband has gone mad again, which ...

by AA Oguntuase — work, King Oedipus ( Oedipus Tyrranus ) by Ola Rotimi's play, The gods Are not to ... Our Husband has Gone Mad Again, The gods Are not to Blame, Kurunmi,.

The Gods Are Not To Blame is a 1968 play and a 1971 novel by Ola Rotimi. An adaptation of the ... (1969) Kurunmi (1970) Holding Talks. (1971) Ovonramven ...

Africanness of Ola Rotimi‟s drama through three of his selected plays: ... 2.2 Ola Rotimi and African Drama. Emmanuel ... Kurunmi (1972). Though, this play is in ...

Oct 26, 2020 — carries out a major study of Ola Rotimi's plays. He does a stylistic analysis of action and tradition in The god's. Are not to Blame, Kurunmi and ...

This paper appraises the use of proverbs by the characters in Ola Rotimi's ... Kurunmi originates from Yoruba history, Ovonramwen Nogbaisi from Benin, while  ...

by B Binebai · Cited by 3 — and the English Language called Bilingualism as proposed by Ola Rotimi in his inaugural ... Identity also features strongly in Ola Rotimi's Kurunmi (1998) and.

by O Shuaib · 2009 · Cited by 3 — Orisun (1963) and Ola Rotimi's Oriolokun Theatre. Company (1968) have ... make-up designs of his plays, such as Kurunmi, Ovoramwen. Nogbaisi, The Gods ...

loggerheads' from Kurunmi: an historical tragedy by Ola Rotimi, University Press Ltd, Ibadan,. 1971 (Three Crowns Book Series) (p. 158); The poem New Year's ...

The Gods Are Not To Blame is a 1968 play and a 1971 novel by Ola Rotimi. ... ( 1969) Kurunmi (1970) Holding Talks (1971) Ovonramven Nogbaisi—the title ...

Julius Caesar and Coriolanus, or Ola Rotimi's Kurunmi and Ovonramwen Nogbaisi deal with the historical accounts of historical figures with same names as ...

OLA ROTIMI'S POSTMODERN HINTS IN THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME ... not to Blame (1971), Kurunmi (1971), Ovonramwen Nogbaisi (1974), Holding ...

political critique on Nigerian literary drama of Wole Soyinka, Ola Rotimi, J.P. ... and the Historical Play: A Radical Study of Ola Rotimi's Kurunmi, Ovonramwen.

To the larger public, Ola Rotimi is famous and popular for his adaptation of ... Rotimi's tragic plays include the “Gods Are Not to Blame” (1971); “Kurunmi” (1972 );.

by SO Chukwu-Okoronkwo — Ola Rotimi's Kurunmi and Ovonramwen Nogbaisi are replete with palpable formidable pressures of incursive influences. The incursive ...

by B Mekusi · Cited by 3 — Study of Ola Rotimi's If… A Tragedy of the Ruled and Hopes of the. Living Dead ... Unlike the epic and romantic values that characterize Rotimi's Kurunmi and.

Clarke's Song of a Goat and Ozzidi, Ola Rotimi's Kurunmi and The Gods are not to Blame, Zulu Sofola's Wedlock of the Gods, and so on. These plays are.

by K Igweonu · 2017 — Baabu (2002) by the 1986 Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, and Ola Rotimi's Kurunmi (1971) and Hopes of the Living Dead (1988). For second generation ...

by S Adeyemi · Cited by 1 — While other playwrights like Wale Ogunyemi, Ola Rotimi and John Pepper Clark- ... (Kurunmi) and Wole Soyinka (The Strong Breed, Death and the King's ...

by S Yirenkyi — Ola Rotimi's Kurunmi as texts upon which their African concept of the tragedy and the tragic hero are based. 1.5. Summary of the play Anowa by Ama Ata Aidoo.

by A Odebunmi · Cited by 46 — Oloruntoba-Oju (1998) is a major study of. Ola Rotimi's plays. It does a stylistic analysis of actional tradition in The Gods, Kurunmi and. Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.

The paper argues that Ola Rotimi, in a bid to celebrate African women does not ... Kurunmi and Ikoli Harcourt Whyte in Hopes of the Living Dead. While most ...

Ola Rotimi's African theatre the development of an indigenous aesthetic, Niyi Coker, 2005, , 150 pages. This work is an exploration into the writing, cultural and  ...

KEYWORDS: Struggle, Sovereignty, Nation Building, Ola Rotimi, Akassa You Mi, ... (1971), Kurunmi (1971), Invitation into Madness (1973), Grip Am (!973),.

by SM Aiyedun · 2018 — Kurunmi (1971) and Ovonramwen Nogbaisi (1974) by Ola Rotimi faithfully re- enact these phases in the African historical experience.

by T FALOLA · Cited by 109 — back to 1836, when Kurunmi, the ruler of Ijaye, assisted in making ... the start of the Yoruba Wars of the 19th century, Kurunmi used his ... Ola Rotimi's play, Ku-.

by T Ikyoive — Text to context: re-interpreting suicide in Ola Rotimi's Kurunmi. Journal of. Pan African Studies, 9 (6), 85. Ikyoive, T. 2016b. Interrogating the ...

Ola Rotimi (13 April 1938 – 18 August 2000), was one of Nigeria's leading ... Kurunmi and the Prodigal (produced 1969; published as. Kurunmi, 1971), written  ...

by A Adeniji · Cited by 1 — Dennis Osadebe, Gabriel Okara, Amos Tutuola, Chinua Achebe, and Ola. Rotimi just to name a few. Anti-colonial sentiment is directly ...

pieces of Osofisan, like those of Soyinka and Ola Rotimi, have at several points ... Gods are not to Blame, and Kurunmi are plays whose ideological currents ...

by JSS Methuselah · Cited by 8 — from great astute war generals like Kurunmi, in Kurunmi and Odewale in. The Gods are not to Blame by Ola Rotimi, Olunde in Death and the King's. Horseman  ...

the recognized theatrical craft of Wole Soyinka, Ola Rotimi, and Femi. Osofisan ... of Ola. Rotimi's history plays, Kurunmi and Akassa You Mi, manifest a strong.

by A Adade-Yeboah · Cited by 7 — In Ola Rotimi's Kurunmi (1971), Kurunmi, like Okonkwo, is a traditionalist. Thus he is constantly seen in the play asking for guidance and ...

by OO GBOYEGA · 2018 — In relation to Soyinka's representations, Ola Rotimi depicts Aare Kurunmi in. Kurunmi (1971) as stubborn, arrogant and abrasive, one who delights in war17.

(xi) Lighting Designer and Technical Director, Kurunmi by Ola Rotimi,. Unilorin ... Nigerian theatre, including Wole Soyinka, Ola Rotimi, Wale Ogunyemi, Femi.

like Ola Rotimi in Kurunmi and Our Husband has gone Mad Again to show the enduring relevance and functions of these Proverbs. Using the. Lexical semantic  ...

by A Gbemisola · 2003 · Cited by 6 — Christopher Okigbo, John Pepper Clark, Ola Rotimi, Femi Osofisan, ... Mendicants. Ola Rotimi's Kurunmi is a dramatisation of the Ijaye war in. Yoruba history

Data for the study are drawn from the plays of Ola Rotimi and Femi Osofisan, two ... both Kurunmi and Odewale are fraught with instances of, borrowing, literal ...

by AE Adeseke — with works of Wole Soyinka and Ola Rotimi, to show how those works reflect high level of commitment, ... If… the Tragedy of the Ruled, Kurunmi, When.

by MI Lawan — Ola Rotimi, the playwright under discussion, belongs to postcolonial theatre, a theatre that ... Two of his plays; Kurunmi and OvonramwenNogbaisi, are historical  ...

For instance, Ola Rotimi (1976) in his play Kurunmi demonstrated the fact that the conflict over tradition coupled with the refusal of the ruling elite to embrace.

by ASUDDELS DELL'AFRICA — Kurunmi. Ola Rotimi. This play tells the story of the conflict that arose in the middle of the nineteenth century between the Kingdom of. Oyo, supported by Ibadan, ...

Sociolinguistic investigation of the proverbs in Ola Rotimi's The Gods Are Not To Blame, Kurunmi and Ovonramwen Nogbaisi. A Ph.D thesis submitted to the ...

Rotimi, Ola. Kurunmi. Ibadan: Oxford University Press, 1971. Yaqub, Nuhu. “What is in Restructuring in the Era of Change in Nigerian Politics?

Aside Kurunmi (another historical drama by Ola Rotimi), this play is for me the best from the playwright. Ovonramwen Nogbaisi is a play that further establishes  ...

In “Ritual Imagination in selected plays of J.P Clark, Ola Rotimi and Wole Soyinka ”, ... Galileo, Kurunmi and Ovonramwen Nogbaisi in Ola Rotimi's Kurunmi and ...

Azeez (2013) interprets Ola Rotimi‟s Kurunmi and Wale. Ogunyemi‟s Ijaye as factual historical war dramas, and not merely as historical plays as most previous  ...

documented and interpreted in play text by Ola Rotimi and Ahmed Yerima. Another effort to render of this ... In Ola Rotimi's Kurunmi, the. Ovonranwen: A dream?

Wole Soyinka and Ola Rotimi interweave the patterns and operational modes of ... Ovonramwen, Kurunmi, Kamini, Ngunema, Kasco and. Tuboum bubble with ...

by BA Bakare · 2018 — selected works of Hubert Ogunde, Wole Soyinka, Ola Rotimi and Femi Osofisan. ... and the manipulation of human destiny against human freewill), Kurunmi and ...

by S Gbadegesin · 2013 — In a moment of comic relief in an otherwise tragic drama, Ola Rotimi had Kurumi lecture the British resident about what justice was. Kurunmi used the analogy of ...

by EA Awogu-Maduagwu · 2017 — SOYINKA'S DEATH AND THE KING'S HORSEMAN AND OLA ROTIMI'S THE ... “ Traditionalism as a source of Change: Ola Rotimi's Kurunmi as an epitome”,.

by T Azeez · 2020 — enhances the tangibility of gender heroism as dramatised by Ola Rotimi in the play. ... Kurunmi and Ikoli Harcourt Whyte in Hopes of the Living Dead. While most ...

such as Wole Soyinka, Ola Rotimi, Zulu Sofola, Tess Onwueme, Akanji ... Kurunmi, the prevailing indigenous/traditional aesthetics in contemporary African  ...

Ola Rotimi Kurunmi has generally been classified as a tragedy, historical play, postcolonial text, satire etc. Such general classifications have limited the analyses ...

by AE Adeseke · 2018 — ... to juxtapose them with works of Wole Soyinka and Ola Rotimi, to show ... the collective will outlook are If… the Tragedy of the Ruled, Kurunmi,.

by IR Adedoyin — WOLE SOYINKA'S A DANCE OF THE FORESTS AND OLA ROTIMI'S THE GODS ... writes his plays (Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again, Kurunmi, Ovonranwen ...

Critical Discourse Analysis of Ola Rotimi's Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again. ... 1971), Kurunmi (Ibadan: University press Limited 1971), Our Husband has ...

Compare, for example, the use of language in a play by Ola Rotimi that is writ? ... (irrespective of the status of the character involved), for example, Kurunmi,.

Ola Rotimi, a renowned Nigerian writer, displays Yoruba values in his play. Kurunmi, written in English. Kurunmi is the hero of a historical tragedy about the ...

Ola Rotimi's Kurunmi (1971) is also cast in the mould; being a dramatic enactment of the Yoruba history as it concerned the rebellion staged against the then ...

by BK Sabr · 2019 · Cited by 1 — at the hands of others is depicted in Ola Rotimi's Kurunmi. ...One thing to observe is that, ritual is an unavoidable constituent of culture, ranging ...

The only exception was Ola Rotimi's historical tragedy. Kurunmi, premiered at Ile- Ife in 1969, although not published until two years later (29). To the Yoruba, the ...

by FT OLANREWAJU — Shittu, T (2015),‟Proverbs as Literary Aesthetics in Ola Rotimi‟ sOvonramwenNogbaisi and Kurunmi‟. Kaduna. Voices; Journal of English Studies.Vol.1 (3).

Even though Ola Rotimi, a Nigerian playwright, maintains that drama is the best artistic medium for Africa because it is not alien in form, as is the novel (1985:12)  ...

by T Dramaturgy — Ola Rotimi have undergone radical reconstruction(s), and thereby creating a ... eponymous character of Kurunmi in Rotimi's work, they refuse to sway to the tide  ...

Ola Rotimi's adventure at the University of Ife and Duro Ladipo's collaboration with Ulli ... and some of the titles are Yoruba titles (a play such as Kurunmi). On the ...

Ola Rotimi's Kurunmi and The Gods are not to Blame......................... 142 ... 5.2.2 Traditional Yoruba life in Kurunmi: Lesson for Contemporary. Society .

by SR Talajooy · 2008 · Cited by 2 — of playwrights, especially with Ola Rotimi and Femi Osofisan. Emmanuel ... Rotimi is at his best in his historical tragedies such as Kurunmi (1969) which deal

The Gods Are Not To Blame is a 1968 play and a 1971 novel by Ola Rotimi. ... ( 1969) Kurunmi (1970) Holding Talks (1971) Ovonramven Nogbaisi—the title ...

by C Mungoshi — rotimi, ola rubadiri, david ruganda, John ruheni, mwangi (pseudonym of nicholas ... Kurunmi. Langbodo. Lion and the Jewel, The. Madmen and Specialists.

THE THEATRE OF OLA ROTIMI ... Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again (Rotimi, 1977) ... Kurunmi. Ibadan: OUP. Rotimi, O. (1971). The Gods Are Not to Blame.

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Also quite noteworthy here is Ola Rotimi who hinges his argument on the ... Kurunmi (1971), Ovonramwen Nogbaisi (1974) and Hopes of the Living Dead ( 1985) ...

Kurunmi: an historical tragedy (1971) initiation into madness (1973) grip am ( 1973) ... olawale gladstone emmanuel rotimi, popularly known as ola rotimi ...