| LC control no. | n 88051054 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR9387.9.O85 |
| Personal name heading | Osofisan, Femi |
| Variant(s) | Osofisan, Babafemi |
| See also | Alternate identity: Launko, Okinba |
| Associated country | Nigeria |
| Associated place | France |
| Located | Ibadan (Nigeria) |
| Birth date | 1946-06 |
| Place of birth | Nigeria |
| Affiliation | University of Ibadan. Department of Theatre Arts Université de Paris IV: Paris-Sorbonne |
| Profession or occupation | Authors Dramatists Drama teachers Novelists Poets |
| Found in | His Midnight hotel, 1986: t.p. (Femi Osofisan) LC data base, 9-23-88 (hdg.: Ọṣọfisan, Fẹmi; usage: Femi Osofisan) His Another raft, 1988: t.p. (Femi Osofisan) p. i (b. 6-46 in the then Western Region of Nigeria) Launko, O. Cordelia, 1989: t.p. (Okinba Launko) p. i (Okinba Launko best known pen-name of Femi Osofisan; b. 6/46 in Western Region of Nigeria; currently head of Dept. of Theatre Arts, Univ. of Ibadan) The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought, accessed March 16, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Osofisan, Femi; dramatist, fiction writer, poet; born 1946 in Nigeria; studied at the University of Ibadan and at Sorbonne, Paris; lecturer and professor of Theatre Arts, at the University of Ibadan (1985); worked as actor, director, musical composer, publisher, critic, and cultural theorist; wrote over fifty plays, four works of fiction, four collections of poetry and two books for young readers, associated mainly with traditional Yoruba myths and visual iconography of Orunmila and Èshù, gods of oracular wisdom and mischief and disruption; founded journal of poetry OponIfa) The writer, novel visions and possible dreams, 2018: title page (a conversation with Okinba Launko) page 6 (Okinba Launko the powerful poet is Femi Osofisan the giant playwright; when it comes to drama this author bears [the name] Femi Osofisan, and when it comes to poetry, he bears [the name] Okinba Launko; real name Babafemi Osofisan, penname Okinba Launko) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | n 89622675 |
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