Browsing by Author "Balogun, Jide"
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Item Drama in its Social Context and the Kaleidoscope of oppression in Bakare's Once Upon a Tower(SPM Pubications, 2014) Balogun, Jide; Balogun, BamitaleItem Olu Obafemi's Ogidi Mandate in the Historical Recreation of Anti-Imperalist Drama(Department of the Performing Arts, University of Ilorin, 2014) Balogun, Jide; Balogun, BamitaleHistory has it that , there has been an age long enemity between the Okun-Yoruba speaking people of Kogi State and the Nupe people of Kwara State ; which was caused by the local imperialism imposed on the former by the latter. The purpose of this paper is to build on the obvious fact that , literature in this context drama does not exist in a vacuum .Rather, it draws substantial resources from history, which is an indispensable element of society. The paper identified and discussed those historical features recreated by Olu Obafemi in Ogidi Mandate [2010] to validate the connection between history and literature. This paper did a critical analysis of Odidi Mandate using as its weapons, the utterances of the characters in the play text matching the same with the events of war which resulted from that local imperialism. As epitomized in the play text , the playwright envisioned a cohabitation of the Okun and Nupe folks in the contemporary society without recourse to injuries sustained by the former in the historical encounter. The findings revealed a paradox of aesthetic vision. For the Okun-Yoruba speakers , tough the wounds are healed, the scars are indelible; which in away hampers a genuine cohabitation. The paper concluded that the entire scenario created and recreated in Ogidi Mandate “is to develop a kind of nostalgia”, Balogun ,[20007,p,206] in the Okun-Yoruba speakers about their historical past and at the best procedure a dint of psychotherapy for them in the process.Item Postcolonialism, Orature and Social Transformation in Femi Abodunrin's "The Dancing Masquerade(Department of Theatre Arts, University of Abuja, 2016-08-16) Balogun, Jide; Salihu, SaratWriters and critics have used critical literary thoughts to interrogate issues concerning inequality,oppression, gender difference, colonialism, class stratification amongst others. Postcolonialism as a theory is used to dismantle colonial-imperialist discourses which are still predominant in Africa and Nigeria in particular as a colonized territory. It is a retrospect of the historical antecedence of colonial enslavement by the imperialists and its consequence effects on the African people as a race. The research examines the process of decolonization of the African society and the proposition towards the eventual restoration to human civilization. It is an expose` of the African postcolonial and African literary text of social transformation as captured in Femi Abodunrin’s The Dancing Masquerade which typifies the unchanging malevolent colonial effects on the African continent and the Nigerian society in particular. The paper therefore, embarks on a textual analysis of the novel in order to highlight the postcolonial propensity embedded in the text with a view to underwrite the utmost need for social transformation and a clarion call for an egalitarian society.