Saturday, May 12, 2012

Introducing my new play: Under a Darkling Sky

Publishers: Hybun Publications International Author: Isaac Attah Ogezi Cover Design: Sylvester Ukut Pay layout: Sundex Final Touch, Suleja. Number of pages: 92 ABOUT THE PLAY: “… I have devoted my intellectual and material resources, my very life, to a cause in which I have total belief and from which I cannot be blackmailed or intimidated … In the quest for justice for my people, neither prison nor the threat of death nor death itself could ever deter me. No imprisonment nor death can stop our ultimate victory.” Those were the last defiant words of Ken Saro-Wiwa to the kangaroo tribunal, the Ogoni Civil Disturbances Tribunal, that tried, convicted and sentenced him along with eight other Ogonis to be hanged on trumped-up charges of complicity and incitement of the deaths of four Ogoni elders in May, 1994. Under a Darkling Sky dramatizes the life and times of Ken Saro-Wiwa, the renowned environmental activist-cum-writer, who placed his community far above his individual life, and had to pay the supreme price by dying for his Ogoni people in the Niger Delta region of the West African nation-state called Nigeria. WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT THE AUTHOR “With his fresh and inventive use of language, excellent dramaturgy and multifaceted characterization, Isaac Attah Ogezi has all it takes to reinvent and reinvigorate the declining Nigerian drama.” -Ismail Bala Garba, poet and literary scholar. “Isaac Attah Ogezi, with this outing, the third in his emergent repertoire, is steadfastly making his way to reckoning as an accomplished literary dramatist from the north of the Niger.” -Denja Abdullahi, poet and culture expert. “Over the years, Isaac Attah Ogezi has consistently carved a niche for himself as an important dramatist on Nigeria’s literary landscape, what with the outstanding dramatic outputs from his creative arsenal. Already prize-laden, his recent award of ANA/Esiaba Irobi Prize for Drama 2011 for the record second time consecutively was the icing on the cake.” -Patrick Oguejiofor, author of Sin of the Father (2011). “With the variety I have observed so far from his creative forte, not to mention his altruistic love for humanity in his plays, it is easy to say that the young Nigerian playwright, Isaac Attah Ogezi, is a star whose iridescent light will not twinkle so briefly like a match-flare in the wind but linger on so long in our literary firmament.” -Ahmed Maiwada, author of Musdoki (2010). THE AUTHOR Isaac Attah Ogezi is a legal practitioner, poet, playwright, short story writer and literary essayist. He currently practises law at Keffi, Nasarawa State. This is his third published play, after Waiting for Savon (2009) and Casket of Her Dreams (2010).
Introducing my new play: Under a Darkling Sky Publishers: Hybun Publications International Author: Isaac Attah Ogezi Cover Design: Sylvester Ukut Pay layout: Sundex Final Touch, Suleja. Number of pages: 92 ABOUT THE PLAY: “… I have devoted my intellectual and material resources, my very life, to a cause in which I have total belief and from which I cannot be blackmailed or intimidated … In the quest for justice for my people, neither prison nor the threat of death nor death itself could ever deter me. No imprisonment nor death can stop our ultimate victory.” Those were the last defiant words of Ken Saro-Wiwa to the kangaroo tribunal, the Ogoni Civil Disturbances Tribunal, that tried, convicted and sentenced him along with eight other Ogonis to be hanged on trumped-up charges of complicity and incitement of the deaths of four Ogoni elders in May, 1994. Under a Darkling Sky dramatizes the life and times of Ken Saro-Wiwa, the renowned environmental activist-cum-writer, who placed his community far above his individual life, and had to pay the supreme price by dying for his Ogoni people in the Niger Delta region of the West African nation-state called Nigeria. WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT THE AUTHOR “With his fresh and inventive use of language, excellent dramaturgy and multifaceted characterization, Isaac Attah Ogezi has all it takes to reinvent and reinvigorate the declining Nigerian drama.” -Ismail Bala Garba, poet and literary scholar. “Isaac Attah Ogezi, with this outing, the third in his emergent repertoire, is steadfastly making his way to reckoning as an accomplished literary dramatist from the north of the Niger.” -Denja Abdullahi, poet and culture expert. “Over the years, Isaac Attah Ogezi has consistently carved a niche for himself as an important dramatist on Nigeria’s literary landscape, what with the outstanding dramatic outputs from his creative arsenal. Already prize-laden, his recent award of ANA/Esiaba Irobi Prize for Drama 2011 for the record second time consecutively was the icing on the cake.” -Patrick Oguejiofor, author of Sin of the Father (2011). “With the variety I have observed so far from his creative forte, not to mention his altruistic love for humanity in his plays, it is easy to say that the young Nigerian playwright, Isaac Attah Ogezi, is a star whose iridescent light will not twinkle so briefly like a match-flare in the wind but linger on so long in our literary firmament.” -Ahmed Maiwada, author of Musdoki (2010). THE AUTHOR Isaac Attah Ogezi is a legal practitioner, poet, playwright, short story writer and literary essayist. He currently practises law at Keffi, Nasarawa State. This is his third published play, after Waiting for Savon (2009) and Casket of Her Dreams (2010).