Biographical overview
Fulbright Scholar, Africana Studies Program,New York University, NewYork 10003, USA; publ: Monday Morn' Song", "Joy", "Throbs from theSinging Dawn", in Voices, From The Fringe: AnANAAnthologyof New Nigerian Poetry, (ed.) Harry Garuba, Ugos: Malthouse Press Ltd., 1988; History, Genres and Nigeria's Emergent Video Film Industry, Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire Vol.5(2), USA, 51-64, 2003; Modernity andthe African Cinema, Uwrence Ville, NJ,Africa World Press,.USA, 2004; Barclays Ayakoroma's Dance onhis Grave. A Book Review, Abalabala: Journal ofthe Bayelsa Council for Artsand Culture, No.2, Nigeria, 167-171, 2004; Ethics and Professionalism inthe Mass Media: An Essay in Media Ethics, Journal of Creative Arts, Vol.5, No.2, Nigeria, I-14,2005; TheColonial Legacy: History and itsImpactonthe Developmentof Modern Culture inNigeria, Third Text, Vol. 19, Issue 3,UK(May)297-305,2005; playsdirected: No More Oil Boom: A PlaybyTunde Fatude, (co-directed), Premiere Production, April9/ 10,1984;The Bear. 'A PlaybyAnton Chekhov, Universityof Abuja, May24/ March 25,1991; Childe Internationale: A PlaybyWole Soyinka, Univereity of Abuja,May24/March 25,1991;conferences:AnnualConferenceofthe African Studies Association: Africa and theAfrican Diaspora: Past, Present, Future, Houston, Texas, November 15/18,2001; etc.; Modernity and the AfricanCinema: ACritical StudyofSelected FilmsofOusmaneSembeneand SoulaymaneCisse;atdie 28thAnnual Conference oftheAfrican Literature Association, (ALA), Tagged: African Diasporas: Ancestors, Migrations and Boundaries, Univereity of California, San Diego, April 3/7,2002; Birthmarks: Urhobo Verbal Artsand Ojaide's Poetry,The Ojaide International Conference, Delta State University, Abraka, Delta, July7/10,2005; sc:VicePresident Senior StaffClub, University of Port Harcourt, 1997-99; hob: travel and tourism, photography, movies, stock market watch; off: Department ofTheatre Arts, Univereity of Port Harcourt, P.M.B 5323, Port Harcourt, Rivers State; tel: 234-8054563387; e-m: [email protected].
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