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UI Renames Arts Theatre After Wole Soyinka

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UI Renames Arts Theatre After Wole Soyinka

by InsideOyo
July 30, 2018
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As part of its intent to recognise and honour the global status of Prof. Wole Soyinka as a Noble Laurette, activist, writer, teacher and first African to ever head the Theatre Arts department of the university, the management of the University of Ibadan has renamed its Arts Theatre after the pen wizard and alumnus of the institution.

In a statement made by incumbent head of the Department of Theatre Arts of the university, Dr. Tunde Awosanmi, the rechristening of the Arts Theatre as the Wole Soyinka Theatre will be made official at an unveiling event scheduled to hold on Tuesday.

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Awosanmi said “The Council and Senate of the University of Ibadan have decided to rename the Arts Theatre of the University after Professor Wole Soyinka.”

“This is in recognition of his global status as a writer-activist and also the first African Head of the Department of Theatre Arts which was founded in 1963. To be renamed Wole Soyinka Theatre, the unveiling, which has been combined with the 2nd Geoffrey Axworthy Lecture,  instituted in honour of Geoffrey Axworthy, the founding Head of the Department of Theatre Arts., has been scheduled to hold on Tuesday 31st July, 2018.

“The Arts Theatre is a very historical structure. Apart from being one of the oldest buildings in the University, having been constructed in 1955 with a generous grant from the Rockefella Foundation, it has assisted — being a major laboratory to the Department — in producing an enoumous size of human resource for the Nigerian nation’s  and indeed, Africa’s creative and culture industry, not to talk of the media, civil service, banking, oil and gas, etc.  sectors.  It is no doubt the oldest institutional theatre in Nigeria and most likely in Africa since the Department which it houses is the oldest on the African continent.

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“Following the unveiling immediately is the Geoffrey Axworthy Lecture by Professor Ahmed Yerima of the Redeemers University. The first in the series of the lecture was delivered in 2013 by Professor Wole Soyinka on the occassion of the 50 Years anniversary of the Department of Theatre Arts. The general public, especially old students of the Department, are invited to the occasion which has been designed to be a part of the University’s 70 Years Anniversary.”

Soyinka was a student of the University of Ibadan between 1952 and 1954. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.

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