Bode Sowande, Date of Birth

    

Bode Sowande

Nigerian writer and dramatist

Date of Birth: 02-May-1948

Profession: writer, playwright

Nationality: Nigeria

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Bode Sowande

  • Bode Sowande (born 2 May 1948) is a Nigerian writer and dramatist, known for the theatric aesthetic of his plays about humanism and social change.
  • He comes from a breed of writers in Nigeria that favors a post-traditional social and political landscape where the individual is the creator and maker of his own history not just the subject of norms and tradition.
  • Sowande is a member of the so-called second generation of Nigerian playwrights, who favor a much more political tone in their writing and seek to promote an alliance or acquiescence to a change in the status quo and fate of the common man and farmers who constitute the majority of the Nigerian society.
  • Some members of this groups includes: Zulu Sofola, Femi Osofisan and Festus Iyayi.
  • Bode Sowande in May 2010, launched a tarot website Tarot With Prayers .See also [1] He runs the Drama group "Odu Themes", established in 1972, and the "Bode Sowande Theatre Academy", an internship programme for dramatists.
  • He is married, with children.

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