Sola Adeyemi
Fellow
Sola Adeyemi lectures in theatre and performance at Goldsmiths, University of London. His research interests include world theatre/s and performance studies, specifically the works of the Nigerian playwright Femi Osofisan; intercultural performance cultures; avant-garde performance; contemporary British theatre; postcolonial literature and African Studies; and diasporic African and black British theatre in its exploration of the politics of identity on the British stage. He has recently completed a book on Femi Osofisan, ‘Vision of Change in African Drama: Deconstructing Identity and Reconfiguring History’. He is Associate Editor of the African Performance Review, and Contributing Editor of 3P+ International Journal of the Arts. Sola is the General Secretary of the African Theatre Association (AfTA), UK, an international non-profit society open to scholars and practitioners of African performance and theatre.
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Sola Adeyemi lectures in theatre and performance at Goldsmiths, University of London. His research interests include world theatre/s and performance studies, specifically the works of the Nigerian playwright Femi Osofisan; intercultural performance cultures; avant-garde performance; contemporary British theatre; postcolonial literature and African Studies; and diasporic African and black British theatre in its exploration of the politics of identity on the British stage. He has recently completed a book on Femi Osofisan, ‘Vision of Change in African Drama: Deconstructing Identity and Reconfiguring History’. He is Associate Editor of the African Performance Review, and Contributing Editor of 3P+ International Journal of the Arts. Sola is the General Secretary of the African Theatre Association (AfTA), UK, an international non-profit society open to scholars and practitioners of African performance and theatre.
June 13, 2018
In this interview, IRC-Fellow Sola Adeyemi, a lecturer in theater and performance at Goldsmiths, University of London, introduces the wide range of his research interests in global theater and performance. Talking about his research project "Dramatizing the Postcolony: Nigerian Drama and Theater", he aims at proffering a new dramatic interpretation of the colonial historiography and postcolonial conquest and at suggesting a new reading of the legacy of dramatic narratives. Adeyemi's study uses geographical mapping and dramatic narratives to express the idealism and figurative ideas that are representational of the cultural manifestations that construct the nature of postcolonial encounters in Africa. Adeyemi also explains how his passion for the theater arouse and his connection to Femi Osofisan.