Femi Euba

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Femi Euba (born April 1942) is a Nigeria actor and dramatist. He is known as a writer who employs metaphoric tones in his writings and plays to delve deeply into the problems afflicting a varied and multicultural environment especially the nuances of post-colonial Yoruba drama. Though, he has published a few number of plays, he is less known than some of his contemporaries.

[edit] Education and Career

Femi Euba, a lagosian by birth, studied acting at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, earning a diploma in 1965. He left the shores of Nigeria in 1970 to further his studies; he attended Yale University for post-graduates studies and earning a masters degree in 1973. Over the years, he has taught at different colleges mostly concentrating on black and African theater and Literature.

[edit] Works

  • A Riddle of the Palms and Crocodiles (plays), Negro Ensemble Company, 1973.
  • Archetypes, Imprecators and Victims of Fate: Origins and Developments of Satire in Black Drama, Greenwood Press 1989.
  • The Gulf, Longman, 1991.
  • Camwood at Crossroads (novel), 1993.
  • The Eye of Gabriel (play),Louisiana State University Theater, 1998.

[edit] References

  • Contemporary Authors Online, Thomson Gale, 2005.
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