Dapo Adelugba
Revered
theatre arts professor, Dapo Adelugba, dies at 75
Dapo Adelugba, a professor and
one-time head of the Theatre Arts department of the University of Ibadan (UI),
has died.
Jahman Anikulapo, former editor of
TheGuardian on Sunday who fondly referred to Adelugba as “my father”, told
TheCable that the septuagenarian died “on Sunday in Ibadan at about 11:50
pm.”
Tunde Awosanmi, head of UI’s
department of Theatre Arts, also confirmed the death, saying it occurred “at a
private hospital” in Ibadan.
“I would miss a lot of things about
him. He was a fantastic teacher, the best teacher anybody could have,” Awosanmi
said.
“I can remember that when he was
supervising my Ph.D., he used to bring my file to me in the post graduate hall
where I lived. I can remember that he also assisted quite a lot of students in
and out of the department. He was a humanitarian to the core.”
Born on March 9, 1939, Adelugba
studied English at the University College, Ibadan.
While at the university, apart from
taking part in a lot of productions such as Wole Soyinka’s Swamp Dwellers,
where he acted as the Blindman, he was president of University College, Ibadan
Dramatic Society, where he adapted Moliere’s ‘Les Fourberies de Scapin’ (The
Trickeries of Scapin) to ‘That Scoundrel Suberu’.
In 1964, he submitted his master’s
degree dissertation at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he
wrote on Nationalism and the Irish Theatre.
He later joined the teaching
services
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