Yakubu Abdullahi Nasidi

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor of Comparative Literature and Postconial Studies at Ahmadu Bello University

Background: The first time I knew Professor Hagher in the seventies, we were both undergraduate students in the Department of English at Ahmadu Bello University. I recall those glorious years with a lot of nostalgia. Professor Hagher was one year behind me, but I remember him as a young man, full of humour and a rascally buoyancy-qualities he has r...

Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse [emph. mine] what we are .... (Michel Foucault) No identltv is stable in today's wild, recombtnant mix of culture, blood and ideas. Things fall apart; thev make themselves anew. Every race carries with it the seeds of its own destruction. (Eric Liu) Like Gizo and Koki (the prote...

Chronologically, and ideologically too, this conversation belongs to that intensely engaging period in Brecht's career which Martin Esslin has designated ',:xuberantly yourhfulj " the period when, as Brecht himself put it, "the technique of alienation was not yet open to me"2-at least not at a conscious theoretical level. The epic theatre was still...

Before the coming of the while man theatre In Africa had functioned to entertain and educate people in an integrated way of existence. As song, dance, story, music, theatre "played an important role in fostering attitudes, promoting awareness, and moving pe pie to action. Theatre did not merely serve to entertain but also to teach, to consolidate a...