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Owobo Ogunde who played Baṣorun in #Anikulapo, the series, is Hubert Ogunde's last son. According to him, in the 70s, he played Oriadekigbe in his dad's play 'Aropin T'Enia' in Glover Hall, Lagos (adapted to film in 1982). This video👇🏾 is from a stage production (Source: BBC).
deji toye264,784 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren
In the Ossie Davis film Kongi's Harvest (1970), Alabi Ogundepo performed as Agúnlẹ́yìnoyè, the court poet, alongside Wole Soyinka, Orlando Martins, Nina Baden-Semper. Ogundepo, the Ìjálá who has now left us, is one of those transitional figures of Yoruba performance modernism.
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A most thoughtful thing KSA did at his 1984 Tokyo concert was to raise awareness about the Ethiopian drought crisis--slow-playing the already solemn 'Motimọ.' Band Aid's 'Do They Know it's Christmas' and USA for Africa's 'We are the World' were recorded a couple of months later.
deji toye50,751 Aufrufe • vor 10 Monaten
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