Background: John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo (1935-2020), popularly known as J. P. Clark, was born in Kiagbodo, Delta State, Nigeria, to Ijaw parents on April 6 1935. Clark received his early education at the Native Administration School and the prestigious Government College...
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Summary and Analysis of The Marriage of Anansewa
Background: Efua Sutherland (1924 –1996) was born on 27 June 1924 as Efua Theodora Morgue in Cape Coast, Gold Coast (now Ghana), where she studied teaching at St Monica’s Training College in Mampong. She then went to England to continue...
Summary and Analysis of Kurunmi by Ola Rotimi
Background Olawale Gladstone Emmanuel Rotimi, popularly known as Ola Rotimi (1938-2000), was born in Sapele in the State of Delta, South-south Nigeria to Samuel Gladstone Enitan Rotimi, a Yoruba steam-launch engineer and a successful director and producer of amateur theatricals...
Summary and Analysis of The Gods Are Not to Blame By Ola Rotimi
Background: ROTIMI, Ola (1938-2000), Nigerian dramatist, was born in the defunct Bendel State (now Delta and Edo States) in South-south Nigeria to a Yoruba father and an Ijaw mother. After his study in the USA, where some of his early...
Summary and Analysis of The Blinkards by Kobina Sekyi
Background: William Essuman-Gwria SEKYI (1892-1956), also known as Kobina Sekyi, was a Ghanaian novelist, playwright, poet and nationalist, born in 1892 in Cape Coast, which is said to be the centre of Gold Coast (Ghana) nationalism. He attended the prestigious...
Summary and Analysis of Ovonramwen Nogbaisi by Ola Rotimi
Background: ROTIMI, Ola (1938-2000), Nigerian dramatist, was born in the defunct Bendel State (now Delta and Edo States) in South-south Nigeria to a Yoruba father and an Ijaw mother. After his study in the USA where some of his early...
Summary and Analysis of Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again by Ola Rotimi
Background: Olawale Gladstone Emmanuel Rotimi, popularly known as Ola Rotimi (1938-2000), was born in Sapele in the State of Delta, South-south Nigeria to Samuel Gladstone Enitan Rotimi, a Yoruba steam-launch engineer and a successful director and producer of amateur theatricals...
Summary and Analysis of Morountodun by Femi Osofisan
Background: Femi Osofisan (1946- ) was born in Eruwon in the State of Ogun in southwest Nigeria. He lost his father early in life and was brought up by his teacher mother who bore the burden of raising him alone...
Summary and Analysis of Hard Ground by Ahmed Yerima
Background: Ahmed Yerima was born in Lagos to Saidatu and Musa Yerima. His father was a police officer and originally intended Yerima to study Law. He had his education at the Baptist Academy, Obanikoro, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria where in was...
Summary and Analysis of Another Raft by Femi Osofisan
Background: Femi Osofisan was born in 1946 in Eruwon in the state of Ogun in south-western Nigeria. He lost his father early in life and was brought up by his teacher mother, who bore the burden of raising him alone...