Kolera Kolej
A Novel & The Play of Kolera Kolej
Kolera Kolej was Femi Osofisan’s first novel, published in 1975. The novel was quickly adapted as a play by the author with Dexter Lyndersay, the then Artistic Director of the Unibadan Performing Arts Company and earliest director of the play.
The setting for the action of the novel/play is the life over four years of an African university college campus, which has been granted independence from its mother country due to the outbreak of an otherwise uncontrollable cholera epidemic.
The stage version has enjoyed tremendous success both within and outside Nigeria, and the prose and stage texts, long out of print, are here newly reissued in a combined volume.
ISBN 9789783325982 | 200 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2006 | Opon Ifa Readers, Nigeria | Paperback
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‘Kolera Kolej is a satirical novel which presents the comedy of politics in a style that is brilliantly funny and reveals a penetrating insight into the human weaknesses that too often affect the conduct of public affairs. Underlying the satire however is a critical examination of African politics, a deeply serious concern of the state of the political and social condition of collective life on the continent.’
- Abiola Irele
