Nigerian top TV Comedians and Soap Opera
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2003
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Timothy Asobele, S.J.
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Upper Standard Communications
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The Nigerian nation is peopled by a very dynamic and sophisticated people. Prior to the coming of the white man, the people have devised a flourishing entertainment industry that is second to none in the world. The White man was entertained with a concert by the Alarinjo traveJingpopular Yoruba Theatre in the court of the Alafin of Oyo in the 18th Century, according to Prof. J. A. Adedeji. The Agere acrobatic spectacle, as well as the Igunuko and Epa Masquerades were part of the entertainment outfit in the theatre belt of Nigeria. To buttress this dynamism of Nigerians, the first
Television station in Black Africa was established in Ibadan, the most populous indigenous Black and African peoples' city in the world, in 1959. As can be expected, the Western Nigerian Television (WNTV) naturally indigenized most of its programmes and hastely incorporated Yoruba Tele-plays among others. The choice theatre troupe that pioneered this cultural revolution was the Ogunde Concert Party. Thus, the WNTV opened the floodgate to Yoruba cultural patrimony. Consequently, the Baba Sala, the Duro Ladipo, the Kola Ogunmola etc., made a fair of Yoruba dramatic patrimony on WNTV.
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Timothy Asobele, S.J. (2003). Nigerian top TV Comedians and Soap Opera, 87p.