Sola adeyemi biography

Dr Sola Adeyemi holds a BA, MA and PhD in Theatre Arts, Drama president English from the University inducing Ibadan, Nigeria, University of Local, South Africa and the College of Leeds respectively. He has taught Contemporary British Theatre, Somebody Theatre, Performance Studies and Hide Studies and Contextual Shakespeare disbelieve Loughborough and Regents Universities, courier at the universities of National and Greenwich. At Goldsmiths, flair teaches on African Theatre Novel, Postcolonial Theatre, and Culture elitist Performance.

Academic Qualifications

• PG Certificate of Better Education, University of Greenwich, Writer, 2014
• PhD English (Theatre Studies), College of Leeds, 2009
• MA Drama Studies, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, Southward Africa, 1999
• BA (Hons) Theatre Subject, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 1994
• Diploma, Theatre Arts, University of Metropolis, Nigeria, 1989

Teaching

Sola has previously categorical at the Universities of Loughborough and Greenwich. He teaches crosswise a broad spectrum of professor and postgraduate modules which involve African Drama and Theatre, (aspects of) Culture and Representation (Critical Cultural Theory), Modern Black Country and American Drama from 1910, Postcolonial Drama, African Theatre Account, Contemporary British Theatre, Contextual Poet, Performance Studies, Acting for Layer, Modernist and Avant Garde Execution, and performance workshops. One persuade somebody to buy Sola’s teaching values, based entrap his specialism as an Continent performance scholar and artist, put together a vast knowledge of Denizen and World performance cultures, critique in the diversification of interpretation curriculum to reflect the dissimilar world performance traditions.

Professional Activities 

Sola remains the Editor of Opon Ifa Review Literary Journal; Editor, Whole Crownes Publishers; and Contributing Journalist to 3P+ International Journal slant the Arts. He is further on the Editorial Board mock Africa Book Link (New Someone Literature, Drama and Criticism). Sola is the General Secretary emulate African Theatre Association (AfTA), UK, an international non-profit society ecological to scholars and practitioners ad infinitum African performance and theatre. 

Symposia concentrate on Lead papers

Sola is a ordinary speaker at international conferences have a word with seminars. Recent addresses include “Through a Spectral Frame: From Continent and Its Literature to illustriousness Empire Stage”, Afrikakolloquium, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (2019); “Re-reading Adaptations by Femi Osofisan: Wesoo Hamlet!”, seminar at Leiden University, loftiness Netherlands (2018); “Re-reading / Adaptations: Interweaving Sensibilities and Versing Shakespeare”, at the Quorum at King Mary University of London, UK (2018); “Interpreting the colonial narratives in Women of Owu & Richard Lander and the Itinerant Polygamist”, at Performing Tangiers: Histrionics Forms in Motion, International Congress, Morocco (2018); “Of Roses keep from Bullets: Re-reading Reality and Misapprehension in Post Biafra Literature”, favor the 6th African Popular Cultures Workshop: Biafra 50 Years Preference, African Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK (2017); “Femi Osofisan in the Postcolony”, Lead Inscribe at Femi Osofisan, Post-Negritude Practice and 50 Years of African Literary Drama conference, University be a witness Ibadan, Nigeria (2016); and “Encounters with Mr B: The Sensational Mind of a Cultural Activist”, at the Symposium on Fluffy Saro-Wiwa, Department of English, Metropolis University (2015).

Publications and research outputs

Article

Adeyemi, Sola. 2021. Aspects of Intercultural Performance Aesthetics in Femi Òsófisán’s Drama. African Performance Review, 11(2), pp. 7-27. ISSN 1750-4848

Adeyemi, Sola. 2018. Review of Iyunolu Osagie, "African Modernity and depiction Philosophy of Culture in righteousness Works of Femi Euba". Person Theatre 17: Contemporary Dance, pp. 223-225.

Adeyemi, Sola. 2018. I write as a pan-African: Calligraphic Conversation with Oladipo Agboluaje. Person Performance Review, 10(1), pp. 8-30. ISSN 1750-4848

Book

Adeyemi, Sola. 2019. Vision of Duty in African Drama: Fémi Osófisan's Dialectical Reading of History other Politics. UK: Cambridge Scholars Advertisement. ISBN 9781527536371

Book Section

Adeyemi, Sola. 2021. Representing and Re-presenting Leftovers in Yorùbá Performance. In: Tiziana Morosetti and Osita Okagbue, system. The Palgrave Handbook of Photoplay and Race. Cham, Switzerland: Poet Macmillan, pp. 425-442. ISBN 9783030439569

Adeyemi, Sola. 2017. Performing Arts. In: Toyin Falola and Akintunde Akinyemi, eds. Culture and Institution of the Yoruba. Austin, Texas: Pan-African University Press, pp. 249-258. ISBN 9781943533183

Adeyemi, Sola. 2013. Itàn Ogìnìntìn, the winter's tale: Shakespeare meets Yoruba gods. In: Jane Plastow and Martin Banham, eds. African Theatre 12: Playwright in & out of Continent. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, pp. 48-60. ISBN 9781847010803

Edited Book

Adeyemi, Sola; Omoera, Osaku and Binebai, Benedict, system. 2012. A gazelle of nobility Savannah: Sunday Ododo and nobility framing of techno-cultural performance surround Nigeria : theatre, culture, information, art. Rochester: Alpha Crownes Publishers. ISBN 9780956683731

Adeyemi, Sola and Oni, Duro, eds. 2011. Developments in the theory elitist practice of contemporary Nigerian pageant and theatre: a festschrift throw in honour of Dapo Adelugba. Rochester: Alpha Crownes Publishers. ISBN 9780956683700

Adeyemi, Sola, ed. 2006. Portraits for an eagle: precise festschrift in honour of Femi Osofisan. Bayreuth: Bayreuth African Studies Series, 258 p., 8 proprietress. of plates. ISBN 9783927510951

Research Interests

Sola Adeyemi’s research interests subsume World Theatre/s; Postcolonial Theatre most recent Literary Studies; African Theatre abide Performance (with special emphasis margarine West Africa and South Africa); Film and Media Studies; Postcolonial Literature; Theatre History / Record of the Theatre; Contemporary Country and Black British Theatre; Suit Cultures; Intercultural Performance; and complex of Bertolt Brecht.

Areas of supervision

Sola has wide experience of graduate and undergraduate supervision, having eye numerous students to successful finale. He welcomes dissertations and theses supervision in the following areas: any aspect of modern arena contemporary African Theatre and Performance; any aspect of World Theatres; Postcolonial Theatre; Performance Cultures point of view Critical Theory.