{"id":14060,"date":"2017-03-06T16:35:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T15:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=14060"},"modified":"2017-05-22T08:54:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T07:54:49","slug":"oti-sonny","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/oti-sonny\/","title":{"rendered":"OTI, Sonny"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, MA, university teacher, born December 26, 1942, Arochukwu, Imo State; married 1968, two sons, one daugh ter; Education: University of Ibadan, Uni versity of Nigeria, Nsukka; Career: Ap pointed Executive Producer, Western Nige ria Broadcasting Service, Western Nigeria Television (WNTV), Ibadan, 1973; Associ ate Professor of Drama and Theatre Arts, University of Jos, Jos; Staff member, Uni versity ofJos, since 1973; International Ad viser On African Theatre, San Francisco In ternational Annual Theatre Festival; mem ber, International Theatre Institute, Nigeria chapter; winner, Nigerian Television Author ity Star Performer Award for the album &#8220;Ni geria Go Survive&#8221;, 1983; Publications: The OldMaster, Oxford University Press, 1977; Evangelist Jeremiah, University Press, 1982; Look Back In Fury, Zim Pan-African, 1988; Moments, Movements And Sign-Posts; A Study ofWest African Highlife Music Genea logical Tree, Zim Pan-African, 1988; Hobbies: folk tales, writing and producing for the electronic media; Official Address: Department of Theatre Arts, University of Jos, Jos; Home: Road 6, House 6, Univer sity Senior StaffQuarters, Bauchi Road, Jos, Plateau State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,749,452],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-14060","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-administrator","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14060"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=14060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}