Sadisu Mohammed

Sadisu Mohammed otherwise known as Teacher Yekondu in Nupe movie industry, Niger State and Nupe land, lived a rather short life of adventures, writings, theatre, movies, artistic restlessness, social anxiety and a crusader of Nupe language and culture in Nigeria.  He was a humourist, satirist, dramatist, poetry performer per excellence, playwright, short story writer, para-poet,…

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NUPE MOVIES AS VEHICLE FOR INTELLECTUALISM, DOCUMENTATION & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

By Sadisu Mohammed MONOGRAPH 007 First published in 2012 CONTENTS Theatre in Nigeria Modern Nigeria theatre started with Soyinka.  Although, there had been earlier attempts by James Ene Hanshaw.  Henshaw’s plays are simple, situational plays with a mild sense of satire but mainly all written to achieve a particular emotional goal-laughter.  It is with Soyinka’s…

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