Femi Osofisan

Babafemi Adeyemi Osofisan was born on 16 June 1946 at Erunwon, in Yoruba country. His father, a lay reader and organist, died three months after his birth; his mother was a schoolteacher. Educated at Ibadan and at the Sorbonne, with a doctorate in 1974, he taught modern languages and then theatre arts at his university, and translated francophone African authors into English. A dramatist above all, he signs his poems with another name. The Thalia Prize rewarded his work as a critic.

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• NovelKolera KolejFemi Osofisan · 1975Literature