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Laureate
By Bushrah Yusuf-Badmus
Ilorin, Oct. 19, 2016 (NAN ) Professor Femi Osofisan of the Kwara State University (KWASU) has been formally inducted as the winner of the prestigious Thalia Award by the UNESCO global partner in the Performing Arts – the International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC).
This is contained in the institution’s bulletin, KWASU Update, made available to the News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN ) in Ilorin on Wednesday.
According to the bulletin, Osofisan was inducted at the event attended by over 150 world authorities in theatre criticism from 66 countries at the German Embassy in Serbia.
”Osofisan has, by the feat, become the first African to be so recognised by the respected Thalia Award committee.
”The Thalia Award is a unique professional honour, next only to the Nobel Prize for literature, which Nigeria also won in 1986.
”En route to receive the award, the African continent had her opportunity to showcase Femi Osofisan as its leading dramatist through an impressive ceremony in Egypt.
”On Sept. 20, Osofisan was honoured as one of the Icons of African Theatre at the 2016 edition of the Cairo International Festival for Contemporary and Experimental Theatre.
”This also came few months after the Pan African Writers Association honoured Osofisan for his contributions to literary development of the African continent,” the bulletin read. (NAN)
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