ON ESIABA IROBI,AFRICAN POET,DRAMATIST,SCHOLAR,.FILMAKER

[toyin adepoju]

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From: aime segla <a_s_...@yahoo.fr>
Date: 17 June 2010 11:11
Subject: Re : Re :
To: toyin adepoju <toyin....@googlemail.com>

Toyin,

I cant believe this, Essiaba died!

Sorrow! I talked to him by telephon. I called him in april when back from Africa. he was there with his wife.

I am so sad, i translated for him a wonderful play on Miles Davis and he was preparing for that event in Paris. What a drama for me personnaly. I wanted to know him physically, to meet him in person. Now it is impossible...

 

Do you know any of his parents, do you know his wife. Tell them my sincere condoleances, and tell Wole Soyinka Society my entire  panafricanist solidarity . I will call you this evening.

 

Yours Aimé

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De : toyin adepoju <toyin....@googlemail.com>
À : aime segla <a_s_...@yahoo.fr>

Envoyé le : Jeu 17 juin 2010, 1h 13min 29s
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Nigerian Poet Esiaba Irobi Is Dead

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OUR REPORTER 04/05/2010 07:43:00

PHOTO: LATE DR ESIABA IROBI

San Francisco, May 04, (THEWILL) – Dr. Esiaba Irobi, 49, a Nigerian poet and playwright is dead. Reports say he died today in Berlin, Germany from an undisclosed kind of cancer.

Esiaba Irobi was born in Eastern Nigeria and has lived in exile in Britain and the USA. He studied at the Universities of Nigeria, Nsukka, Sheffield, Leeds and holds a B.A. in English/Drama, M.A. Comparative Literature, M.A. Film/Theatre, and a PhD in Theatre Studies. He was a professor at New York University, Towson University, and Ohio University, School of Theatre before his death.

His play, Cemetery Road, won the prestigious World Drama Trust Award for playwriting in 1992. His other published plays include Hangmen Also Die, The Colour of Rusting Gold, Nwokedi, Why the Vultures Head is Naked, What Song do Mosquitoes Sing? and the recently finished Foreplay commissioned by the Royal Court Theatre in London. He has directed numerous plays and productions in Ireland, Hungary, USA, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, and England amongst other countries.

His forthcoming books include Theorizing African Cinema: Ontology, Teleology, Semiology and Narratology (Routledge, London) and Before They Danced in Chains: African Metalanguages in African-American Performance Aesthetics and a new adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Tempest commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Theatre, USA. He has just completed a very exciting book of poetry: Why I Don't Like Philip Larkin which will be published by Nsibidi Publishers in Massachusetts by August, 2003.

He is survived by a wife.

Additional information courtesy of University of Ohio School of Theatre.

On 17 June 2010 00:02, toyin adepoju <toyin....@googlemail.com> wrote:

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Thanks
toyin

On 16 June 2010 23:50, toyin adepoju <toyin....@googlemail.com> wrote:

okay.
in a few minutes
toyin

On 16 June 2010 22:49, aime segla <a_s_...@yahoo.fr> wrote:

what do you mean by ''essiaba passed away...''?

be serious, what happens to essiaba?

i know he was in berlin recently and promised me to come to paris in june.

please, give a telephon number by which i can reach you.

Aimé

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De : toyin adepoju <toyin....@googlemail.com>
À : aime segla <a_s_...@yahoo.fr>
Cc : ir...@ohio.edu
Envoyé le : Mer 16 juin 2010, 22h 34min 35s
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do you know esiaba passed away this year?
toyin

On 30 August 2009 18:17, aime segla <a_s_...@yahoo.fr> wrote:

Dear Brother Essiaba,

 

Dont worry. I have just finished the translation but I need to reread it.

I am so glad of you. The text is great. It is very great story.

 

I now know more about African American life in USA and what Paris reprensents still represents for them: a pilgrimage and memory place.

 

In four days, final stage of text will reach you.

 

Have you received my mail about suggestions for WSS in Paris?

 

Yours, Aimé D. SEGLA