Șọlá Adéyẹmí

Writer, director, editor
Studies || Postcolonial Theatre || Books on Femi Osofisan

[Șọlá Adéyẹmí @soladeyemi]

‘We do not take for granted the time, care, creativity writers invest in their stories’ https://t.co/tmjK4LzdG4

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Adieu, Comrade BJ — By Bolanle Bolawole https://t.co/wf0ADnAupB

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Femi Osofisan @80: ‘It’s because of my creative colleagues that I am’ https://t.co/j1J46qSpEh

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Ojewuyi makes Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors https://t.co/YnjIjSk52M

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FEMI OSOFISAN @80… Lagos leg of 8-day feast wraps with Roundtable, screening of “Cordelia” – Ibadan Literary Society
https://t.co/KCZxmYAMsy

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Femi Osofisan and his Disarming Humanism -Tunde Fagbenle https://t.co/hUARVc06mH

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“You have been infected with Kunle Ajibade’s Anxiety”: Biọdun Jeyifo and Fẹmi Ọṣọfisan in Conversation (Part 1) https://t.co/BcJ68orbeY

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Femi Osofisan @80 Celebrating An Icon Of Arts, Culture, Creativity https://t.co/RERiL8vjlI

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8 Days 8 Decades
https://t.co/I0PB2S3jc6

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Femi Osofisan At 80: Birthdays are not for dying
https://t.co/klvazqwDoH

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Season of Abductions: When kidnappers become campaign managers
https://t.co/qlxz6wrgcn

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Femi Osofisan at 80
https://t.co/rJVU4KjWl9

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Femi Osofisan at 80: Celebrating An Icon Of Arts, Culture And Creativity
https://t.co/OqteaBxMqJ

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Femi Osofisan @80: Celebrating an iconic poet, dramatist, scholar in Lagos, Ibadan
https://t.co/zPfdkQpRpD

[Șọlá Adéyẹmí @soladeyemi]

Femi Osofisan, Decoloniality and the Repositioning of Western Modernity 15 June 2023
https://t.co/AVPLHHMxEP

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Femi Osofisan, Decoloniality and the Repositioning of Western Modernity 15 June 2023
https://t.co/5hRauEAH4U

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When Education No Longer Guarantees a Future.
https://t.co/Pnmy69JcOj

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Nigeria’s power crisis begins and ends with the grid
https://t.co/pzDZ9Eg5aJ

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

Thinking again of the short essay by German writer Heinrich von Kleist written in 1805, "Über die allmähliche Verfertigung der Gedanken beim Reden" : "On the Gradual Construction of Thoughts While Speaking".
His argument is that speech doesn't express a thought that already exists; it produces the thought. You begin to speak before you know what you're going to say, and the very act of speaking, especially to another person, even an inattentive one, creates the conditions for the idea to emerge and clarify itself. for von Kleist, we think by speaking. The act of beginning to articulate something to another person, before the idea is fully formed, creates a momentum that carries thought forward to a clarity it could never reach in silence. The other person's presence is essential not because they contribute anything, but because the social obligation to continue forces the mind to finish what it started.

I think of this often when I am doing public speaking or teaching and I have not prepared a full script (sometimes because I have little time to prepare or just procrastination). And it always amazes me how just talking out loud to someone about it helps me clarify and formulate my thoughts. It is one of the reasons why I like talking about my works in progress. I see the thoughts form in real time and even I am amazed by how just speaking helps me in this regard.