Femi Osofisan is an internationally lauded playwright, scholar, poet, novelist, actor, director, songwriter, and activist and Professor Emeritus of Theatre Arts at the University of Ibadan. Osofisan was awarded the Thalia Prize in 2016. He has published five novellas, six volumes of poetry, and more than 50 plays. Femi Osofisan is an internationally lauded playwright, scholar, poet, novelist, actor, director, songwriter, and activist and Professor Emeritus of Theatre Arts at the University of Ibadan. Osofisan was awarded the Thalia Prize in 2016. He has published five novellas, six volumes of poetry, and more than 50 plays.

• Editors' Introduction - Martin Banham and Femi Osofisan and James GibbsReading & performing African drama: how Wole Soyinka & Ngugi wa Thiong'o influenced my work - David KerrAyan contra Ujamaa: Soyinka & Ngugi as theatre theorists - Biodun JeyifoENCOUNTERS WITH SOYINKA: I Working with Wole Soyinka - Tunji Oyelana and Sola AdeyemiII The difficulties of a neophyte staging Wole Soyinka's The Beatification of Area Boy - Tunde OnikoyiIII Pentecostalizing Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero - Bisi AdigunIV The Lion & the Jewel in Mombasa - Silviah NamussasiENCOUNTERS WITH NGUGI: I Choru wa Muiruri: reflections on the Kamiriithu Experience - Mugo MuhiaII Producing I Will Marry When I Want in South Africa - Fredrick MbogoIII Ngugi wa Thiong'o: the unrecognized Black Hermit - Oby ObyerodhyamboIV Kamiriithu in retrospect - Gichingiri NdigirigiWole Soyinka & Ngugi wa Thiong'o: plays in production - James Gibbs and Mugo MuhiaThe making of The Trial of Dedan Kimathiby Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Micere Githae Mugo at the University of California, Irvine: a personal reflection - Ketu H. KatrakPlayscript: A Rain of Stones. A previously unpublished radio play by Wole Soyinka - Wole SoyinkaBook Reviews

Femi Osofisan is an internationally lauded playwright, scholar, poet, novelist, actor, director, songwriter, and activist and Professor Emeritus of Theatre Arts at the University of Ibadan. Osofisan was awarded the Thalia Prize in 2016. He has published five novellas, six volumes of poetry, and more than 50 plays. Femi Osofisan is an internationally lauded playwright, scholar, poet, novelist, actor, director, songwriter, and activist and Professor Emeritus of Theatre Arts at the University of Ibadan. Osofisan was awarded the Thalia Prize in 2016. He has published five novellas, six volumes of poetry, and more than 50 plays.

• Editors' Introduction - Martin Banham and Femi Osofisan and James GibbsReading & performing African drama: how Wole Soyinka & Ngugi wa Thiong'o influenced my work - David KerrAyan contra Ujamaa: Soyinka & Ngugi as theatre theorists - Biodun JeyifoENCOUNTERS WITH SOYINKA: I Working with Wole Soyinka - Tunji Oyelana and Sola AdeyemiII The difficulties of a neophyte staging Wole Soyinka's The Beatification of Area Boy - Tunde OnikoyiIII Pentecostalizing Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero - Bisi AdigunIV The Lion & the Jewel in Mombasa - Silviah NamussasiENCOUNTERS WITH NGUGI: I Choru wa Muiruri: reflections on the Kamiriithu Experience - Mugo MuhiaII Producing I Will Marry When I Want in South Africa - Fredrick MbogoIII Ngugi wa Thiong'o: the unrecognized Black Hermit - Oby ObyerodhyamboIV Kamiriithu in retrospect - Gichingiri NdigirigiWole Soyinka & Ngugi wa Thiong'o: plays in production - James Gibbs and Mugo MuhiaThe making of The Trial of Dedan Kimathiby Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Micere Githae Mugo at the University of California, Irvine: a personal reflection - Ketu H. KatrakPlayscript: A Rain of Stones. A previously unpublished radio play by Wole Soyinka - Wole SoyinkaBook Reviews

Femi Osofisan is an internationally lauded playwright, scholar, poet, novelist, actor, director, songwriter, and activist and Professor Emeritus of Theatre Arts at the University of Ibadan. Osofisan was awarded the Thalia Prize in 2016. He has published five novellas, six volumes of poetry, and more than 50 plays. Femi Osofisan is an internationally lauded playwright, scholar, poet, novelist, actor, director, songwriter, and activist and Professor Emeritus of Theatre Arts at the University of Ibadan. Osofisan was awarded the Thalia Prize in 2016. He has published five novellas, six volumes of poetry, and more than 50 plays.

• Editors' Introduction - Martin Banham and Femi Osofisan and James GibbsReading & performing African drama: how Wole Soyinka & Ngugi wa Thiong'o influenced my work - David KerrAyan contra Ujamaa: Soyinka & Ngugi as theatre theorists - Biodun JeyifoENCOUNTERS WITH SOYINKA: I Working with Wole Soyinka - Tunji Oyelana and Sola AdeyemiII The difficulties of a neophyte staging Wole Soyinka's The Beatification of Area Boy - Tunde OnikoyiIII Pentecostalizing Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero - Bisi AdigunIV The Lion & the Jewel in Mombasa - Silviah NamussasiENCOUNTERS WITH NGUGI: I Choru wa Muiruri: reflections on the Kamiriithu Experience - Mugo MuhiaII Producing I Will Marry When I Want in South Africa - Fredrick MbogoIII Ngugi wa Thiong'o: the unrecognized Black Hermit - Oby ObyerodhyamboIV Kamiriithu in retrospect - Gichingiri NdigirigiWole Soyinka & Ngugi wa Thiong'o: plays in production - James Gibbs and Mugo MuhiaThe making of The Trial of Dedan Kimathiby Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Micere Githae Mugo at the University of California, Irvine: a personal reflection - Ketu H. KatrakPlayscript: A Rain of Stones. A previously unpublished radio play by Wole Soyinka - Wole SoyinkaBook Reviews