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About Sam Ukala
- Sam Ukala is a Nigerian playwright, poet, short story writer, actor, theatre director, film producer and academic.
- Currently Professor of Theatre Arts and Drama at Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria.
- Ukala has also been Professor of Drama and Theatre Arts at a number of Nigerian universities, including Edo State University.
- In 1993/94, as an academic staff fellow, he also researched and taught at the School of English Workshop Theatre of the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom.
- As an academic, he propounded the theory of 'folkism', the tendency to base literary plays on indigenous history and culture and to compose and perform them in accordance with the aesthetics of African folktale composition and performance.
- He is currently Chairman of the Delta State Chapter of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA).
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