Yulisa Pat Amadu Maddy
Yulisa Pat Amadu Maddy (born 1936, Freetown) is a Sierra Leonean actor, dancer, director and playwright. He has had an "immense impact" on theatre in Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Zambia.[1]
Thought Maddy grew up in Freetown, he travelled to France and Britain in 1958.[2] Maddy trained at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in the UK, and started broadcasting in Britain and Denmark, writing and producing radio plays. Maddy's early plays, initially produced on the BBC African Service, were published as Obasai and other plays (1968). He is founder-director of the theatre company Gbakanda Afrikan Tiata, founded 1969 in Freetown.[1]
Works
- Alla Gbah [The Big Man], 1967
- Yon Kon [Clever Thief], 1968. Reprinted in Cosmo Pieterse, ed., Ten One-Act Plays, Heinemann, 1968. African Writers Series 34.
- Obasai [Over Yonder], 1971. Reprinted in Obasai and other plays, Heinemann, 1968. African Writers Series 89.
- Ghana Bendu [Tough Guy], 1971
- Life Everlasting, 1972. Reprinted in Cosmo Pieterse, ed., Short African Plays, Heinemann, 1972. African Writers Series 78.
- No Past, No Present, No Future, London: Heinemann Educational, 1973. African Writers Series 137. Novel.
- Big Breeze, 1974
- Big Berin, 1976
- Drums, Voices and Words, 1985
- (with Donnarae MacCann) African images in juvenile literature: commentaries on neocolonialist fiction, Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, 1996
- (with Donnarae MacCann) Neo-imperialism in children's literature about Africa: a study of contemporary fiction, New York: Routledge, 2009.
References
- ^ a b Maddy, Yulisa Amadu Pat, in Who’s Who in Contemporary World Theatre. ISBN 0-203-10590-7
- ^ Simon Gikandi, 'Maddy, Yulisa Amadu (Pat)', in Gikandi, ed., Encyclopedia of African Literature. Routledge; 2002. ISBN 978-0415230193. Reprinted online here
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Maddy, Yulisa Pat Amadu |
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Actor, director and playeright in the theatre |
| Date of birth |
1936 |
| Place of birth |
Freetown, Sierra Leonean |
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