{"id":17328,"date":"2017-03-23T22:58:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T21:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=17328"},"modified":"2017-11-09T12:56:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T11:56:40","slug":"ogunde-chief-hubert-adedeji","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ogunde-chief-hubert-adedeji\/","title":{"rendered":"OGUNDE, Chief Hubert Adedeji(Late)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>play wright, dramatist, born July 10, 1916, Ososa, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State; married and has children; Education: St John&#8217;s School, Ososa, St Peter&#8217;s School, Faji, Lagos; Teacher, Wasinmi African School, Ijebu-Ode, 1932-40; joined the Nigeria Police Force, 1941-45; established Ogunde Theatre Company and Ogunde Record Company, 1946; established Ogunde Dance Company,&#8217; 1966; represented Nigeria at the EXPO &#8217;67 in Montreal, Canada, 1967; founder, Ogunde Film Company; foun der, African Music Research Party; founding member, Association of Nigeria Theatre Prac titioners, since 1977; member, Association of Nigerian Theatre Artists; founder, Nigerian Dramatists and Playwright Association and its President, 1971; Leader of the Nigerian Na tional Troupe; the Doyen of Nigerian Theatre and Film Production; National Honour: honoured with the member of the Order of the Federal Republic (MFR), 1982; Honorary Degrees: awarded honorary Doctor of Letters (Hon. D. Litt), University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife, December 1985, honorary Doctor of Letters (Hon. D. Litt), University of Lagos, January 1986;Publications: written and presented over 51 plays in addition to numerous films; Hobbies: walking, drama; Address: Ogunde&#8217;s Estate, Ososa, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-17328","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17328","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\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17328"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=17328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}