
Wale Ogunyemi
Dates:
1940 - 2002
Gender:
Male
Biography
Playwright Wale Ogunyemi was born in Igbajo in the West of Nigeria. Ogunyemi became a drama student at Ibadan University in on a one-year professional course. At the same time he was appointed to Ibadan's Institute of African Studies as a research assistant and transcriber, and he stayed with the institute throughout his career, increasingly devoting himself to Yoruba studies. From 1970s onwards Ogunyemi began writing for the stage with plays ranging from popular domestic comedies to reworkings of Yoruba myth and history.
Productions
Production | Date | Theatre |
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Langbodo | 1984 | Commonwealth Institute |
Publications
Title | Date | Publisher |
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Queen Amina of Zazzau | 1999 | Ibadan University Press |
Eniyan: A Morality Play | 1987 | Ibadan University Press |
The Vow | 1985 | Macmillan Education |
Langbodo: Dramatised from Soyinka / Jagunwas The forest of a thousand demons | 1979 | Nelson |
The Divorce | 1977 | Onibonoje Press & Book Industries |
Kiriji: An Historic Drama on Ekiti Parapo War in the Nineteenth Century | 1976 | African Universities Press |
Obaluaye | 1972 | Institute of African Studies |
Eshu Elegbara | 1970 | Orisun Acting Editions |
Ijaye War: A Historical Drama | 1970 | Orisun Acting Editions |
The Scheme: in Three Nigerian Plays, with an introduction and notes by Ulli Beier | 1967 | Longmans |