Creative historiography and critical determinism in Nigerian theater

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Title:	Creative historiography and critical determinism in Nigerian theater
Author:	Owomoyela, Oyekan
Year:	1986
Periodical:	Research in African Literatures
Volume:	17
Issue:	2
Pages:	234-251
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Nigeria
Subjects:	Yoruba folk drama
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/4618125
Abstract:	In a 1969 landmark thesis for the University of Ibadan, Joel Adedeji documents the birth of alarinjo, which he describes as 'a Yoruba theatrical art form' and which he says persists today as a well-organized professional guild (J.A. Adedeji, 'The Alarinjo theatre: the study of a Yoruba theatrical art form from its earliest beginnings to the present times', Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Ibadan, 1969). This thesis is the subject of the present paper. The evidence presented is scrutinized and both the cogency of the argument and the validity of the conclusions are determined. Ref.