1 A vol. X No 2 Pğ a \%% •• a • u M •* m m AFRICAN QUATERLY ON THE ARTS B iN I I I I I I I I B I 8 G • • • • i i a Q i a a a a a a o B ^ The World Around Kenzaburo Oe MS' - 25 Years of Film in Africa • Film policy and the Development of the African Cinema • The Gathering of a Thousand Reels Christopher Okigbo's Relevance, Twenty-Eh The Challenge of teaching Literature without Textbooks . • • • Ğ a 1 1 1 lit * • • • * f • • • • Ğ • * • ği • a n • to . ign N African Art Book Specialists 168, Awolowo Road, IKoyi, Lagos, Nigeria. Vol.1 No. 2 1995 Publisher Olakunle Tejuoso • Editor-in-Chief Dapo Adeniyi • Assistant Editor Tai Ade Fato • Art Editor Wole Lagunju • Art Director Obiesie P. Okocha Cover Painting • Marketing Director Oluwatoyin Tejuoso The Glendora Review (ISSN 1118- 146X) is published quaterly by Glendora International (Nigeria) Limited. CORRESPONDENCE Africa: Glendora Review, 168, Awolowo Road, P . O. Box 50914, Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria. Tel. 01- 2692762. U.S.A. and Canada: Glendora Review c/o Limerock Books. Inc., 41 Perry Avenue, Norwalk, CT. O685O.USA. Europe: Glendora Review, 16 Skelley Road, London E15 4BA. U.K. DISTRIBUTION U.S.A. and Canada: B. De Boer 113 East Central st, Nutley, NJ07110 Africa/Europe contact Toyin Tejuoso, Glendora, P.O. Box 50914, Falomo, Lagos, Nigeria. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be produced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, mechanical, electronic, photocopying or otherwise without the prior written consent of the publisher. Send all editorial correspondence and subscription enquiries to addresses above. For more about subscription and advertising information, call 234< 1)686870/2692762 or Fax:234(l)2618083 Wole Lagunju, 'Communication'. 1995. airbrush, callage, gouache on paper. SMI \ . H The World Around Oe Snapoems Lou Stouvall interview Why Nigerian Government rejected Amos Tutuola's Story W\ The Mountain of Thought A Conversation of Two Masters Lessons from the British Theatre \ Hi Book Review: Film/TV index and literary index Ouattara extract is taken. Nigeria. Okigbo. D. O. FAGUNWA Late Nigerian indigenous novelist who wrote in Yoruba. His novels are the most famous in any indigenous West African language. Wole Soyinka translated his first of five novels as Forest of a Thousand Daemons for Thomas Nelson in 1967. Another translation, Expeditionlo the Mount of Thought was published in 1994 by Ife University Press translated by Dapo Adeniyi from which this JOOPBERKHOUT Publisher of Spectrum Books based in Ibadan, Nigeria. OKWUI ENWEZOR Is a New York-based art writer and scholar. He is the editor and publisher of Nku, a journal on contemporary African art. i * ^ SUNNY ORIBIOYE Writes for Daily Times of f, j? Nigeria. He studied Mass Communications at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. ; 3 ONOOKOMEOKOME X^m Film teacher and newspaper art writer. Okoine obfm lained masters and doctorate degrees in Theatre Arts and cinematography from the University of Ibadan 1 i, He is currently on the staff of University of Calabar, PIUS OKIGBO Renowned Nigerian economist. He is also the elder'brother of the poet Christopher OLUSEGUN ADEKOYA Teaches poetry and drama at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. ADOTEY KING Is the Director of African Centre. London. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS HAKEEM BELLO Assistant Editor, Sunday Times in Lagos. He read Literature at the Universities of Ilorin and Ibadan, Nigeria MAKIN SOYINKA Freelance journalist and theatre consultant. He recently graduated from the English Department. Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. IMO ESHIET A graduate of the Department of English and Literary Studies, University of Calabar, Nigeria where he has been a lecturer since the mid 1980s. EKPO UDO UDOMA Lagos-based art commentator and newspaper reviewer. NIYIOSUNDARE Prominent poet and winner of the NOMA Award and professor of English. Osundare is the Head of the English Department, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. MAURICE ARCHIBONG Attended University of Calabar. He is now in Lagos writing in the newspapers on African art. ALEX OLU AJAYI Formerly Deputy Registrar, University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) Ile- Ife as well as former Deputy Registrar of the West African Examination Council (WAEC). Chief Ajayi was the principal of Fiditi Grammar School in the 1950s. SOLA OLORUNYOMI Is an editor with the weekly Monitor. He also doubles as a post-graduate student of English at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. VICTOR EKPUK is a Lagos-based Ife-trained painter and newspaper cartoonist. Images of Japan My Sources Uli at the Skoto Christopher Okigbo : 1932 - 1967 Film policy and the development of the African Cinema • The Gathering of a Thousand Reels • Interview with Ola Balogun, • Breudan Shehu and Frank Ukadike Teaching without Textbooks Gani Odutokun remembered Agbo Folarin at Wisconsin