CAN QUARTERLY ON THE ART • in the Niger valle Art in a Society in Transition African Literature Today The Ghana Concert Party Contemporary English language Theatre in Nigeria Making Photographs K ..... - / very PICTURE tells a story Well FRAMED, it becomes a CONVERSATION piece fi 13, King George V Road, Onikan, Lagos - Nigeria. Tel/Fax: 01-2646180 Letters 5 Vol. 1 No.4 1996 Tatenda Zimbabwe 10 Publisher Olakunle Tejuoso Editor-in-Chief Dapo Adeniyi Art Director Felix Omorogbe Production Manager Dayo Anthony Systems Manager Gabriel Ojugoh Africa: contents The Other life of Benjamin Aderounmu JT Ali my life Translating a Grlot 20 African Literature Now 25 Obiora Udeckukwu at fifty 33 Revised film policy for Ghana 43 Osofisan at fifty 47 Not Leeds but Lagos 50 Uzo Egonu an artist and a gentleman 55 Glendora Review poet Theatre in the Niger vaJJeys Art In a Society In Transition Ghanaian concert party English language theatre gg in Nigeria Making J | | g j photographs A time and f | a Season •P Marketing/Advertising Director Fidelis Akpom Jnr. Glendora Review (ISSN 1118-146X) is published quarterly by Glendora International (Nigeria) Limited Tel: 686870/2692762 or Fax: Lagos 2618083 or e/mail: 105271,11 ©CompuServe com. CORRESPONDENCE Glendora Review, 168, Awolowo Road, P. O. Box 50914, Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria Tel. 01-2692762 North America: Glendora Review 7471, Watt Avenue, Suite 109-253 North Highlands, CA 95660 Glendora Review, 16, Skelley Road, London E15 4BA. U.K. DISTRIBUTION North America: B De Boer. 1 1 3 East Central st, Nutley, NJ071 10. Fine Print Distributors, Inc 500 Pampa Drive, Austin, Tx 78752-3028. Africa/Europe: Contact: Toyin Tejuoso, Glendora, P. O. Box 50914, Falomo, Lagos, Nigeria. Phone: 2692762 Fax: 2618083 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 Lagos 686870/2692762 or Fax: Lagos 261 8083 or e/ mail: 105271,1 l@compuserve.com. Cover and Content page illustration : Sewhenu Akran Printed by Rainbow Cards Ltd. Tel: 0 1- 4922627 James Gibbs.•>•. Weli-Knovwi SGhoJarand literary critic, has taught literature in Ibadan and Liege (Belgium). Kpfi Anyidoho - Director of the School of Performing Arts, University of Ghana, Legon and well-known poet. He is a leiiniing member of the management committee of the * W.E.B. DuBois memorial centre for Pan-African Culture, Accra. Etienne Galle - Was professor of English at the University of Niamey, Niger Republic.for many years. He is also the main translator of Wole Soyinka's works into French as well as some of Chinua Achebe's. Now he teaches at Universite de Rennes-2, France. Maurice Archibong: Is a freelance arts writer, resides in Lagos. Benson Idonije - Retired from the Federal Radio Corpo->si •; •••; "'"SK, <• fattbff of Nigeii! in 1992. He was for 35 years a presentf iv. arid producer of programmes and broadcasting fistrtic- Jor. Now he lives in Lagos where he runs arconsultancy outfit. Akin Adesokan - Journalist and novelist Currently he is bti the literary desk of The Post Express, Lagos. Chikai Okeke - Yotfnjer gei*emtioi^sligerian pointer, writer and curator. He cufaj^d thei^Iigeiia^t s e c t ^ at the recent Whitechapel exhibition, Seven Sfoties, during Afnca'95. He teaches fine art at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Afncanus Aveh - Lectures in film at the University of Olu Oguibe - Nigerian poet, art critic and painter. Curhe is the Stuart Golding Chair in African Art at the Ida, USA. - . «® rthe University of Muylwa Awodiya -1$ Hie General Manager of the Musical Society of Nigeria (MUSON) Centre. Lagos.