Performing Artists Gather At Ibadan Varsity For Bode Sowande At 70

May 10, 2018 Greg Abolo

The Oasis Reporters

May 10, 2018

A portrait of the Man was presented to Prof. Bode Sowande by the South West Association of Nigerian Authors, ANA,. On the left is their chairman and on the right is Toye Arulogun, Hon. Commissioner for Information, Oyo State. He’s a graduate of the Theatre arts department, University of Ibadan.
Bode Sowande (middle) kept wondering how they got that particular photo to make the portrait.

Thespians gathered at the Theatre Arts auditorium, University of Ibadan, weekend from all over the south west of Nigeria. Their gathering was not to examine the
‘Ideological Mutations in the Drama of Bode Sowande’, as Ameh Dennis Akoh of the Osun State University would write about, it was to celebrate the man, Bode Sowande, a post soyinkan professor of Theatre arts.

And the question is, who is Bode Sowande?

Ever read any, or all of the following books ?

BODE SOWANDE

Books
1 of 3
Farewell to Babylon and other plays

1979
Tornadoes full of dreams

1990
Circus of Freedom Square

2010
Our man, the president

1981
Ajàntálá, Pinocchio

1997
2 of 3
Flamingo and other plays

1986
Without a Home

1982
The Missing Bridesmaid

1988
The Carioca File
2009

Sowande had just clocked 70 and eminent professors in the theatre arts profession, historians, writers etc gathered to celebrate the jolly good fellow where it all started for him – at the premier University of Ibadan.

Thespians cannot gather without performances.

Bode Sowande was born on the 2nd of May in 1948. He is a Nigerian writer and dramatist, known for the ” theatrical aesthetic of his plays about humanism and social change”, so said Ameh Akoh.

Prof. Bode Sowande taught Theatre arts at the University of Ibadan, but left over twenty years ago.
He currently lectures at the Department of Performing Arts， Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye，Ogun State in south west Nigeria.