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WHAT IS POETRY TO YOU?

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WHAT IS POETRY TO YOU?

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WRITING THE RE-EDUCATION OF GINA OBI

As a former lecturer, it was quite easy to write this play. I didn’t have to do much research. Since the play was based in an educational setting, I just had to dig into my reserves of experience in the classroom. But it was still such a different ordeal though from my previous writing. The maxim that writers need to find themselves within an environment where they can express themselves authentically is all so true. The characters, and the scenarios, in this play were in my face, all around me, bombarding me with their stories.

I had just returned to Nigeria, having lived most of my life out of the country. Being on the ground was a breath of fresh air to me – a new lease of life for my writing. With my creativity in the cooler for decades in the United Kingdom with attempts at navigating out of the doldrums proving futile, here in this mad country, I could literally pluck ideas out of thin air. I was recharged, I could feel the blood flowing back in my veins.

I kept recalling a play I had watched way back in my student days, EDUCATING RITA by Willy Russel. The theme, ambitious lowly working-class girl and a patronising upper-class man has been making the rounds for ages: George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion and My Fair Lady the musical. I could see instinctively how it could be transposed to the terrain in Nigeria. But in this case, it wouldn’t just be about two people seeking an identity. The play had to capture the broad sweep of what it means to exist in a tumultuous country like Nigeria

With the eye of an ‘outsider’ one tends to see and notice things in ways people of the soil do not or have lived with for so long they have become immune to them. There was a lot, and I mean a lot. Nigeria is not just a pot of energy it is a swirl with tensions pulling in all directions. This makes life exciting but at the same time dangerous, in fact too dangerous at times for comfort. The scramble to survive forces extremes of human behaviour. Nothing is good or bad. It just depends on which position on the stage one is viewing the action.

As an African writer one cannot just write for fun, I think. We have an added responsibility tha

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Kinjeketile, is a historical reality. The Tanzanians had suffered so much in the hands of the German colonizers. In anger, the Tanzanians waged war to revenge the injustices meted on them by the Germans.

Did they succeed? If you want to know, let's meet in the Theatre on Friday 13th October, 2023.

Venue: University of Calabar Theatre
Time: 6pm

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For enabling the "Super Falcon to fly " while at the FIFAWOMEN CUP, by filling their craving with our delicacy, on behalf of the grateful Nigerians, I say THANK YOU. You deserve a National Honour.

Oro nation to the world

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Gearing up for the fourth edition, we going to cross River state .

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When you trespass by some bottles of unforbidden drinks.... link in my bio.

#hotspot #episode 11 #campus #life #story #films #life #compass

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WHY ARE YOU RUNNING? #hotspot the series #bts #film #acting #campus #life

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MY MONOLOGUE ENTRY FOR ART@ACK STUDIOS AUDITION CALL.
#Art@tack studio
#auditionalert
#roktv
#kunleafolayan
#kemiadetiba
#ebonylifetv
#actor

Name: SARAH JOSEPH
Phone: 08162263948
Email: sarahjay922@gmail.com

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Over the Weekend , the Calabar Chapter of the UNICAL THEATRE ARTS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION , (UCTAAA) held her Monthly meeting in March. Few highlights!! #unicaltheatreartsalumniassociation

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I SIT BY MYSELF TALKING TO THE MOON 🌝🌜🌛🌙🌔🌓🌒🌑🌘

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