Bode Sowande (born 2 May 1948) is a
Nigerian
Nigerians or the Nigerian people are citizens of Nigeria or people with ancestry from Nigeria. The name Nigeria was taken from the Niger River running through the country. This name was allegedly coined in the late 19th century by British jour ...
writer and
dramatist, known for the theatric aesthetic of his plays about humanism and social change. He comes from a breed of writers in Nigeria that favors a post-traditional social and political landscape where the individual is the creator and maker of his own history not just the subject of norms and tradition. Sowande is a member of the so-called second generation of Nigerian
playwrights
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.
Etymology
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, who favor a much more political tone in their writing and seek to promote an alliance or acquiescence to a change in the status quo and fate of the common man and farmers who constitute the majority of the Nigerian society.
[Osita Okagbue, African Writers Vol. 2 1997] Some members of this groups includes:
Zulu Sofola
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,
Femi Osofisan
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and
Festus Iyayi
Festus Iyayi (29 September 1947 – 12 November 2013) was a Nigerian leftist writer, best known for advancing his politics through realist novels depicting the socopolitical environment of contemporary Nigeria. He was also a former president of th ...
. Bode Sowande in May 2010, launched a tarot website Tarot With Prayers.
He runs the drama group "Odu Themes", established in 1972, and the "Bode Sowande Theatre Academy", an internship programme for dramatists.
He is married, with children.
Works
Novels and short stories
*The Night Before Babylon, 1972
*A Farewell to Babylon and Other Plays, 1978
* Flamingo and other plays, 1980
* Without A Home, novel, 1982
* Our Man The President, novel, 1983
* The Missing Bridesmaid, novelette, 1984
Plays
* Tornadoes Full of Dreams, drama, 1990
* Arede Owo,
oruba adaptation of Molière's L'Avare drama,1990.
* Ajantala-Pinocchio, drama, 1997
* Super Leaf, drama, 2004
*Just For The Fun Of It
An anecdotal history of Odu Themes Theatre2008, memoirs.
* Long Story, drama
n last days of Abacha and M.K.O Abiola 2010
* Mammy Water's Wedding, 2014 ()
*E-book, The Spellbinder, stage drama on mental health challenge, and love stories of three billionaires.
OkadaBooksApp.2021.
*E-book, Snapshots, drama on urban habitat with focus on slum dwellers, OkadaBooksApp, 2021.
* E-book, My WhatsApp Posts,
Social commentary in prose, from compiled WhatsApp posts of the author, OkadaBooks online. OkadaBooksApp.2022
Radio plays, broadcast on BBC African drama programmes;
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*Bar Beach Prelude,
*Get a Pigeon from Trafalgar Square,
*Beggars Choice,
* A Dream from the sun,
*Alarm on Lagoon Street,
*Regina's Golden Goal.
Television
*Odu Themes weekly Television programmes, Western Nigeria Television
now NTA, Ibadan.973- 1978.
*Television drama series, 'Acada Campus', NIGERIA TELEVISION AUTHORITY
etwork 1981,1982.
*''Flamingo'', 13 part television serial, Oyo State Broadcasting Service,1983
*''Without a Home'', TV 13 episode serial, Oyo State Broadcasting Service, 1984
* TarotWithPrayers
Notes
New e-book by Bode Sowande,
The Spellbinder, drama,OkadaBooksApp.
New e-book by Bode Sowande, Snapshots, drama, OkadaBooksApp.
References
* Osita Okagbue, African Writers Vol. 2 1997
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Nigerian dramatists and playwrights
1948 births
Living people
Nigerian male novelists
20th-century Nigerian novelists
20th-century Nigerian dramatists and playwrights