Femi osofisan biography of abraham

          Today in History: 16th US President Abraham Lincoln born in LaRue County, Kentucky, ,.

          Femi Osofisan: A Chronology

          Adesola Adeyemi MA Candidate, Drama and Speech Department, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg

          1946 (June 16): Babafemi Adeyemi Osofisan aka Okinba Launko born at Erunwon, Ogun State, Nigeria.

          The plays are Waiting for Godot () by Samuel Beckett, The Oriki of a Grasshopper () by Femi Osofisan, and The America Play () by Suzan-Lori Parks.

        1. Distinguished Professor.
        2. Today in History: 16th US President Abraham Lincoln born in LaRue County, Kentucky, ,
        3. Femi Osofisan is revered as the African icon of relatable literature and the only African to have received the prestigious World Literary Prize in Drama, “The.
        4. This document provides an analysis of Femi Osofisan's play "Women of Owu" and how it uses history as a tool to shape history.

          5. Father, Ebenezer Olatokunbo Osofisan, a lay-reader, church organist and school teacher died three months after his birth; mother, Phebean Olufunke Osofisan (retired teacher)

          1952-58 Primary School education

          1959-1963 At the Government College, Ibadan where he obtained his West African School Certificate in 1963.

          Wins the 1st T. M. Aluko Prize for Literature

          1965 Higher School Certificate. Wins the 1st Western Nigeria Broadcasting Service (WNBS) Independence Prize with the essay "Five Years Ago"

          1966 Enters the University of Ibadan to read French.

          Awarded the Western State and Federal Government of Nigeria's Scholarships (till 1969). Acts in James Ene Henshaw's Dinner for Promotion

          1967-68 Attends Universite de Dakar, Senegal, for the year-