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Literature and the Pressures of Freedom

Literature and the Pressures of Freedom

Essays, Speeches and Songs

Femi Osofisan

This volume brings together several of the author’s unpublished speeches, papers and literary reflections from the 1980s, 1990s and early twenty first century. Subjects include: the writer, artist and journalist as mirrors of a nation’s ethos; press freedom and its enemies; theatre and the question of national development; and literacy, reading and books as integral to cultural freedom.

ISBN 9789783325975 | 212 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2006 | Opon Ifa Readers, Nigeria | Paperback

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About the Author

Femi Osofisan

Femi Osofisan is a prolific Nigerian critic, poet, novelist, and playwright whose work attacks political corruption and injustice, was born in Erunwon village in the old Western Region of Nigeria and educated at the universities of Ibadan, Dakar, and Paris; he is a professor of drama at the University of Ibadan. Among the literary awards and commendations he has won are prizes from the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) for both drama (1980) and poetry (1989). He is the only Nigerian author to be honoured with that award twice.

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