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Yugen And Iwa Lewa: The Underlying Principle Of Xcellence In Japanese And Yoruba Operatic Theatre
(2019) Aguoru, D.
Numerous studies on Japanese and Yoruba aesthetics have focused on the elements and ideals that form the essence of both cultures most of which are regarded as graceful and near esoteric. Several of these investigations centre on Japanese and Yoruba aestheticism which is thought to have been as elevated as spiritualism in the Japanese courts and provinces in the tenth century and in the same contexts in pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial Yoruba Courts. This theatrical inquiry encapsulates aesthetic ideals that are central to the cultural identity of the Yoruba and the Japanese. They include Japanese art- the literary, the performing and fine arts and the Yoruba indigenous performing arts, and ceremonies among others. This paper examines Iwa lewa and Yugen, as theoretical underlying currents in Yoruba Alarinjo and Japanese Noll art. It portrays the concept of beauty across these nationalities as an agency within theoretical agencies engaged bv Zeami Motokiyo and Hubert Ogunde in designing and nurturing Ndh, Japan's ancient operatic theatre and Alarinjo, Nigeria's ancient and earliest professional operatic travelling theatre. Yugen. a concept that has become a profound and fundamental ideology in Japanese theatre, continually generates scholarship. Its near encyclopaedic definition is best summed up as 'elegant beauty' which is largely o f a visual quality, one that translates to a near indescribable but pleasurable experience. Hubert Ogunde's Iwa lewa substantially postulates that significance, rapport and social activity culminate in beauty and edification. Zeami Motokiyo's and Hubert Ogunde's treatises and critical insights as playwrights can be engaged as theoretical agency in examining contemporary and modern forms of Nohplavsand Alarinjo plays. The transformation of Nohfrom simpleplotal episodes ofSaragaku-Ndh into symbolic performances, evolved a form that maintains contemporary relevance. Similarly, Alarinjo evolved from the masque cult to diverse 'deritualized' performances. The postulations of these two dramatists have continued to serve as critical, civic, and political agency within the Japanese and Yoruba theatrical ambit. Noh and Yugen and Alarinjo and Iwa lewa contimieto in form contemporary ideals in Japanese and Yoruba performances, creating a new public evolving from the aesthetic principles, artistic and creative abilities which continue to permeate sensory experiences in both national literatures and cultures.
Mentoring and Art: A Bio-critical Engagement of Ulli Beier and Duro Ladipo's Lives
(Signet Impressions & Designs Ltd, 2018) Aguoru, D.
Several studies on Ulli Beier and Duro Ladipo have established that they were precursors in the development and preservation of aspects o f Nigerian indigenous theatrical arts. There have been polemics arising from the critical opinions about the relationship that existed between these two artists and the implication of the influences they wielded, one on the other. Diverse forms of mentoring, an established system o f a co-creative process, is identified as the informal but effective ideology that sustained and reinforced the Beier-Ladipo collaboration. This study bio-critically explores two biographical works, Wole Ogundele's Omoluabi: UlliBeier, Yoruba Society and Culture and Aderemi Raji-Oyelade, Sola Olorunyomi and Abiodun Duro-Ladipo's Duro Ladipo: Thunder God on Stage. The paper engages their subjects beyond their lives to their creative passions that impacted Nigeria as well as the international communities beyond their lifetimes. The unmistakable significance o f mentorship as agency in the Beier-Ladipo collaboration culminated in the emergence of two dramatists, the Duro Ladipo School and a historical form o f the Nigerian operatic travelling theatrical tradition. Examining these antecedents is with a view to interrogating the contemporary value on mentoring relationships on the preservation o f culture
Orita ibadan journal of religious studies
(2017) Aguoru, D.
Trafficking has been described as all activities that entail the conveyance, sheltering and trade in humans within or across national and international boundaries through deceit, kidnap, or other forceful means with the intent of engaging victims in forced services or labour. Trafficking, particularly in women and children, is considered by the international community a fast growing global avarice. Dominant features of the globalised trade include: domestic servitude and prostitution which is different in comparison to the context of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. This study takes on prostitution in trafficking, engaging the inherent potential and the existing influence of the literary writer to conscientise, redefine and reposition the society. This is done by examining portrayals of character-types, development of the plot and depths of the thematic preoccupation and literary elements which have contributed immensely to the redefinition of Africa in Africa, and Africa before the international community. This paper employs Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s Trafficked and Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street, novels that thematically dwell on this global concern. It critically engages national and international postures in examining dimensions of trafficking such as: trafficking as an industry and cartel, prostitution as a vocation for the trafficked, portrayals of the stake holders, portrayals of the victims, value systems that promote the desire of young women to live and earn money abroad, and the psychological, physiological as well as sociological import of being trafficked and being a sex- slave. Trafficked and On Black Sisters ’Street are Nigerian literary templates that serve as conscientisation and deterrence for the class of women this new tool of trade targets.
Osofisan's Thunder-King and the Recreation of Ladipo‘s Sango
(2017) Aguoru, D.
Reconnaissance survey of the wildlife santuary of stubb's forest reserve, Akwa Ibom, Nigeria
(2004) Popoola, L.; Jimoh, S.O.; Alarape, A. A.