Ola Rotimi
, 1938 - 2000
Olawale Gladstone Emmanuel Rotimi was born in Eastern Nigeria, and educated at the Methodist Boys' High School in Lagos, Boston University in the US, and at Yale University, where his first play, Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again, won the Yale Major Play of the Year award in 1966. His other plays include: Kurunmi (1969) and Ovonramwen Nogbaisi (1971). They focus on the personal and political dilemmas of traditional chiefs in Nigeria in the nineteenth century in the face of European annexation of Africa.
Bio prepared by Daniel A. Nkemleke, University of Yaoundé 1, nkemlekedan@yahoo.com
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