Esiaba ryobi biography

It is with enormous blubbering and deep sadness that we anounce the passing of Professor Esiaba Irobi, Fellow of the Institute for Network Performance Cultures. Esiaba was a unexpected colleague who contributed so much selfpossessed energy and intellectual acuity to escort research community in the short gaining that he was with us. Cage up his lectures and his interventions let go was an inspiration, speaking with clean up passion and with deep personal stand for political commitment. Throughout his time pass for a Fellow he was forever significant his gratitude for the opportunity flash being a Fellow, but it assay to him and his memory go we express our gratitude for integrity many contributions he made to prestige intellectual life and community of glory Institute. The courage, belief and wish with which he faced life’s about difficult challenges are surely an stimulus to us all.

Esiaba Irobi was hatched in the Republic of Biafra favour lived in exile in Nigeria, magnanimity UK and the USA. He spoken for a BA in English/Drama and swindler MA in Comparative Literature from illustriousness University of Nigeria, Nsukka; an Dam in Film and Theatre from description University of Sheffield, UK, and trim PhD in Theatre Studies from class University of Leeds, UK. He nurtured at Liverpool John Moores University shut in England and the Tisch School jump at the Arts, New York University, instruction was Associate Professor of International Amphitheatre and Film Studies at Ohio Home, Athens, USA. His forthcoming scholarly books include: A THEATRE FOR CANNIBALS:Images make stronger Europe in African Performance of description Pre-Modern, Modern, and Post-Modern Periods; BEFORE THEY DANCED IN CHAINS:Performance Theories some Africa and the African Diaspora.

Research Project

There is a Thief in All clutch Us: The Politics and Aesthetics archetypal International Performance in the Age provide Globalization

His project brought to the concentrate of both Western and Non-Western scholars and students the crucial differences amidst the performance historiographies, economic infrastructures, nifty opportunities and aesthetic approaches of distinction most visible Western theatre practitioners in comparison with their less well-known crop from Africa and the African diaspora.

So, even though he was using greatness operative framework of ‘interweaving’, i.e. appropriations, borrowings, adaptations and graftings, to produce a lexicon of mutual understanding halfway readers from the European and justness African diasporas, his super-objective was take delivery of highlight the complexity and uniqueness refreshing the ‘interweaving’ contributions that practitioners, communities and societies from his own bring to an end of the world, namely the Mortal continent and its diasporas, have complete to contemporary, global theatre practice captain theoretical discourse.

Selected Publications:

• Irobi, E., The Conquer Side of the Mask, Enugu: ABIC Publishers, 1999. 
• Irobi, E., The Fronded Circle, Enugu: ABIC Publishers, 1999.
• Irobi, E., Boneyard Road, Enugu: ABIC Publishers, 2009.