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YEMI AJIBADE
(1929 - 2013)Nationality: Nigerian
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29 Seymour House, Churchway, London NW I (0 1 388 4595) or c/6 Michael Imison, 8 1 -8 3 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W l (01 437 5 546) Lagos Yes, Lagos (BBC radio 1971 ) Published by Heinemanns 1972. Now a full length play not yet performed, about an author who wins an award with a big question mark. Behind the Mountains (1976) A full length play still being re-written. Parcel-Post (written 1974, performed Royal Court 1976) About the arrival of a parcel bride. into a Nigerian family living in London. Specialist areas: As a black man, specifically an African I write from my natural point of view. But my characters or situations need not be all black; in fact, they need not be black at all. Ready for the challenge to write for any group of human beings in human situations - from my point of view.
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Award Behind the Mountain Fingers Only Long Way From Home, A Mokai Para Ginto Parcel Post Waiting For HannibalAward
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an African author faces the dilEmma of accepting an 'arranged' literary award in London
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Top of PageBehind the Mountain
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a young African cult-man is corrupted in the city, he goes to trick his people in the village
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Unibadan Masques
1977
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Contained in: "Parcel Post & Behind The Mountain" published by African Books Collective 2001
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Top of PageFingers Only
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about a gang of pick-pockets during the World War in Nigeria
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BBC Radio 1971 As Lagos, Yes Lagos
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The Factory, Battersea Arts, London (Black Theatre Co-Op)
1982
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Heinemanns, London, 1972
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Top of PageLong Way From Home, A
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Top of PageMokai
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an outcast, by chance and mischance, becomes (despite protests) Head of State
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Unibadan Masques
1979
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Top of PagePara Ginto
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Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen (black version of Peer Gynt)
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adaptation
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Top of PageParcel Post
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a supposed virgin bride travels from Africa to join the bridegroom in London. all they know of each other is from photographs.
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Royal Court Theatre, London >>>
16 Mar 1976
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English Stage company
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Contained in: "Parcel Post & Behind The Mountain" published by African Books Collective 2001
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Top of PageWaiting For Hannibal
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about a Carthaginian noble woman who was a give away bride to an African King in return for his alliance to fight off the Roman invasion of Africa
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