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EFÚNSETÁN ANÍWÚRÀ: ÌYÁLÓDE ÌBÀDÀN AND TINUÚBÚ, ÌYÁLÓDE ÊGBÁ
The Yorùbá Historical Dramas of Akínwùmí Ìsölá
Translated by Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith
Summary:
Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith's Efúnsetán Aníwúrà, Ìyálóde Ibadan and TINUÚBÚ, Ìyálóde Ëgbá, is an annotated English translation of Akínwùmí Ìsolá's trailblazing dramas of two powerful, nineteenth century Ìyálóde during the seventy-year protracted internecine Yorùbá wars. Besides important male historical figures, change agents included a number of very distinguished women who have been written out of history, but whose trajectory, undoubtedly, did not stop with the nineteenth century...
About the author:
Professor Akinwunmi Isola (b. Ibadan) is a Nigerian playwright, actor, dramatist, culture activist and scholar. He is known for his writing in, and his work in promoting, the Yoruba language. Isola wrote his first play, Efunsetan Aniwura, during 1961 and 1962 whilst still a student at the University of Ibadan. This was followed by the novel O Leku. His play proved popular, and one performance in Ibadan was watched by forty-thousand people. Since then, he has written a number of plays and novels. He also broke into broadcasting, creating a production company that has turned a number of his plays into television dramas and films. Though he claims that 'my target audience are Yorubas', Isola has also written in English.-Wikipedia.
About the translator:
Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith is Professor of English, Humanities and Women's Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington, Seattle and has published several essays on translation issues and on Yorùbá Language and Literature. Africa World Press published her translations of Akínwùmí Ìsolá's two historical plays, Ëfúnsetán Aníwúrà and Olú Omo Tinúubú in 2005 .
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