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AFRICAN QUARTERLY ON THE ARTS VOL.1 NO 1 JUNE - AUGUST 1995 
Nigerian Music: New Forms 
How Soyinka broke into NBC studios 
Osundare on Africa and global prizes 
Festival of European films in Lagos 
Evening with Richard Smith 
Jazz music influences on Fela's music 
Who judges a work of art and how?
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Vol.1 No. 1 June - August, 1995 
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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 
AKIN TAIWO a freelance journalist and writer based in Ontario, 
Canada. He is also a columnist for Nigeria's Sunday Times, 
contributing occasionally also to the reviews pages of the Daily 
Times. 
KUNLE FILANI a painter, art critic and lecturer in Arts Education 
at the Federal College of Education (Technical) Akoka, Lagos 
where he also heads the Fine Arts Department. He has had many 
solo and joint exhibitions of his works in Nigeria. 
TOLU AJAYI a medical doctor and newspaper columnist is also 
a poet and playwright. He was recently Lagos State Chairman of 
the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA). 
JAMES GIBBS a well-known literary critic and professor of 
Literature has published extensively on the writings of Wole 
Soyinka in Nigeria and in Europe. He was until recently a lecturer 
at Liege, Belgium. 
NIYI OSUNDARE professor of English at the University of 
Ibadan where he currently heads the Department of English. One 
CONTENTS 
Literature and the City 2 
Evening with Richard Smith 6 
Jazz Music Influences on the Work of Fela 8 
Interview with Bisade Ologunde 14 
The Story of MUSON 23 
They Judge the Art, they Judge the World 26 
Osofisan's African Antigone 32 
Impressions of Detroit 33 
Festival of European Films in Lagos 36 
Soyinka and the Story of the 60s 41 
Taking Africa's Book Distribution Problems... 51 
Of Prizes and Literary Giants 54 
A Dip in the Sea (Excerpt of a play) 57 
A Stop over at Accra 60 
The Ones They Left Behind 62 
Reunion with Nature at New Bussa 64 
Outburst of Fireflies 66 
Biyi Bandele-Thomas: An undertaker or a dreamer 68 
Zimbabwe Book Fair 71 
of Africa's leading poets, his collection of poems Waiting Laughters 
was a winner of the NOMA award for publishing in Africa. 
WALE OKEDIRAN a medical doctor based in Ibadan, Nigeria as 
well as anovelist. Heiscurrently a national officer of the Association 
of Nigerian Authors. 
TODD NYONI a publisher based in Harare, Zimbabwe. He is a 
coordinator of African Publishing Network (APNET) as well as 
one of the organisers of the Zimbabwe International Book Fair 
(ZIBF). 
WOLE SOYINKA poet, playwright, novelist and theatre director 
was until a decade ago a professor of Drama and Comparative 
Literature at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He 
won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986 
MICHAEL VEAL a musician and ethnomusicologist based in 
the United States of America. He is currently working on a 
doctorate degree at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 
U.S.A. and also is about to release a CD on the Jazzhole 
label. [GRl