GLENDORA

AFRICAN  QUARTERLY  ON THE ARTS VOL.1 NO 1 JUNE - AUGUST  1995

Nigerian Music: New Forms

Evening with Richard Smith
Jazz music influences on Fela's music
Who judges a work of art and how?

How Soyinka broke into NBC studios
Osundare on Africa and global prizes
Festival of European films in Lagos

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CONTENTS

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Literature and the City 
6
Evening with Richard Smith 
8
Jazz Music Influences  on the Work of Fela 
14
Interview  with Bisade Ologunde 
23
The Story of MUSON 
26
They Judge the Art, they Judge the World 
32
Osofisan's African  Antigone 
33
Impressions of Detroit 
36
Festival of European Films in Lagos 
41
Soyinka and the Story of the 60s 
51
Taking Africa's  Book Distribution  Problems... 
54
Of Prizes and Literary Giants 
57
A Dip in the Sea (Excerpt of a play) 
60
A Stop over at Accra 
62
The Ones They Left  Behind 
64
Reunion with Nature at New Bussa 
Outburst of Fireflies 
66
Biyi Bandele-Thomas: An undertaker or a dreamer  68
Zimbabwe Book Fair 
71

Vol.1  No. 1 

June - August, 1995

Publisher

Olakunle Tejuoso

Editor-in-Chief
Dapo Adeniyi

Assistant Editor
Tai Ade Fato

Art Editor

Wole Lagunju

Art Director
Pat Okocha

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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.

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.

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.

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).

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

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