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It was a memorable day on March 9, 2015, when students, ex- students and
colleagues from Creative Arts, and English Department, University of Lagos (Unilag)
gathered for the celebration of Professor Dapo Adelugba’s 76th birthday posthumous seminar,.
Held in the Afe Babalola
Hall, University of Lagos under the auspices of The Dapo Adelugba Group, and
the UI Theatre Arts Alumni; the seminar theme was Dapo Adelugba: Reminiscences
On A Distinguished Life, and featured presentations and tributes by many of his
former students and colleagues including Profs Duro
Oni, Akachi Ezeigbo, Sunnie Ododo, Dr. Esohe Suinner, Sola Fosudo, Odia
Ofeimun, Ben Tomoloju, Longley Evru, Tade Adekunle, Teju Kareem and Tunji
Sotimirin, among others.
The
Adelugba family was represented by Chief and Mrs. Kufo, Mr. and Mrs. Segun
Adelugba, Dr. and Mrs. Bolarinwa. Teniayo, Prof Adelugba's daughter, sent in a
message from London. Chair of the Adelugba Group and, Theatre Alumni, Prof. Oni
seized the opportunity to announce the annual Dapo Adelugba Theatre Arts
Lecture Series which takes off on March 9 2016.
Adelugba died at the age
of 75 on November 23, 2014. He was a great theatre teacher and practitioner.
It will hold at Afe
Babalola Auditorium, University of Lagos, from 11 am to 2 pm.
He took part in a lot of
productions including Wole Soyinka’s Swamp Dwellers, where he acted as the
Blindman.
Adelugba was president of
University College, Ibadan Dramatic Society, where he adapted Moliere’s ‘Les
Fourberies de Scapin’ (The Trickeries of Scapin) to ‘That Scoundrel Suberu’.
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