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THIS week the department of Theatre at the University of Ibadan celebrates 50 years of Theatre in the African academy. The celebrations mark fifty years of formal Theatre training in Africa, the University of Ibadan being the first of such in the whole of the continent. In those years, graduates of the department have provided high value leaderships in Theatre, Music, Advertising, Film, Radio and Television, Print Journalism, Politics, Business, Civil service, International Diplomacy, Academics and even institutional religion. They have served both country and the world with vision and distinction, wielding major global influence.
Earlier in the year, Professor Wole Soyinka – Africa’s first Noble Prize winner in Literature and an early head of the University of Ibadan School of Drama had opened the celebrations with a public lecture. Now as the events of the week kicked off, Professor Abiola Irele – a one time actor on the Ibadan stage, who then went on to become a Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, headlined the events with a Key note address. As an alumnus of the UI department, I have often bragged the pedigree of my alma maters – University of Ibadan (my African Ivy league in Theatre) and Yale University (my American Ivy League in Drama). The com
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Nigeria’s former Minister of Culture and Tourism, High Chief Edem Duke, has implored the Federal Government of Nigeria to adopt the Carnival Calabar and festival as a national event.
Justifying his stand, the former Minister of Tourism stated that, unlike festivals in other states that died out with time, the Calabar Festival began in 2004 when former Cross River Governor, Mr Donald Duke, planned to turn the state into a tourism and hospitality hub and has been sustained since then.
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Duke identified several instances in which the Rio Carnival, despite not being held in the Brazilian capital, was adopted to be celebrated by the Brazilian government.
While presenting the theme of the 2024 Calabar Festival, “Our Shared Prosperity,” the Governor of Cross River State, Prince Bassey Otu, noted that since tourism cannot thrive in an atmosphere of chaos, the security of lives and properties has been given pride of place in his administration.
“Permit me to remark at this juncture that the Carnival Calabar and fest