{"id":17155,"date":"2017-03-23T12:32:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T11:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=17155"},"modified":"2017-05-30T22:57:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T21:57:00","slug":"sowande-dr-bode-kolawole-obafemi","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/sowande-dr-bode-kolawole-obafemi\/","title":{"rendered":"SOWANDE, Dr. Bode Kolawole Obafemi"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, MA, Ph.D, playwright, university teacher, born May 2, 1948, Kaduna, Kaduna State; married Titilola Eboda 1973, two sons, two daughters; Education: St Peter&#8217;s Primary School, Ake, Abeokuta, Ireti School, Lagos, St Luke&#8217;s Demonstration School, Ibadan, 1954-61* Government College, Ibadan, 1962-66, University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife, 1967-71, Univer sity of Dakar, Senegal, 1969-70, University of Sheffield, England, 1973-77; teacher, Abeokuta Grammar School, June-December, 1971 and Adekile Goodwill Grammar School, Ibadan, 1972-73; appointed Lecturer, Depart ment of Theatre Arts, University of Ibadan, 1977 and later Senior Lecturer; Co-ordinator, Amnesty International, Ibadan, Group II, 1982-86; member, Association of Nigerian Authors; Award: winner, Association of Nigerian Authors Award for Drama (with &#8220;Flamingo&#8221;), 1987; Publications: FarewellTo Babylon (Volume of 3 Plays), (UK, Longman, 1979), Our Man The President (Novel) (Ibadan, Spectrum Books, 1981), Without A Home (Novel) (UK, Longman, 1982), Flam ingo (Volume of 4 Plays> (UK, Longman, 1986), The Missing Bridesmaid (Children&#8217;s Story) (Ibadan, Associated Book Makers, 1988); Hobbies: travelling, swimming, chess; Official and Home Address: Department of Theatre Arts, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,2415],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-17155","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-writer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17155","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\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17155"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=17155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}