Bode Sowande

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Bode Sowande (born in May 1948) is a Nigerian writer and dramatist known for the theatric aesthetic of his plays about humanism and social change. He comes from a breed of writers in Nigeria that favors a post-traditional social and political landscape where the individual is the creator and maker of his own history not just the subject of norms and tradition. Sowande is a member of the so-called second generation of Nigerian playwrights, who favor a much more political tone in their writing and seek to promote an alliance or acquiescence to a change in the status quo and fate of the common man and farmers who constitute the majority of the Nigerian society.^[1] Some members of this groups includes: Zulu Sofola, Femi Osofisan and Festus Iyayi.

[edit] Works

• The Night Before Babylon, 1972
• A Farewell to Babylon and Other Plays, 1978
• Flamingo and other plays, 1980

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[edit] References

• Osita Okagbue, African Writers Vol. 2 1997