OLAYIWOLA Abiodun Adewale

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OLAYIWOLA Abiodun Adewale

Reader, Associate Proffesor

Email address(es): ablayiwola@oauife.edu.ng biodunlayiwola@yahoo.ca

Office Address: Department of Dramatic Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

ORCID iD:  0009-0000-8548-972X

Academic Qualifications: B.Ed Theatre Arts/English (1999), M.A. Theatre Arts (2002), PhD Theatre Arts (2011)

Areas of Specialization: Media Arts (Broadcasting and Film), Play Directing

 Title of M.A. Thesis: Olayiwola A.A. (2001) Adaptation and the Screen Director: A Study of Tunde Kelani’s Thunderbolt and Koseegbe. M.A. Dissertation, Department of Theatre Arts, University of Ibadan, Ibadan.

Title of Ph.D. Thesis: Olayiwola A.A. (2011) A Semiotic Investigation of Select Yoruba Video Films. Ph.D Thesis, University of Ibadan, Ibadan.

Fellowships (If any):  Fellow of Theatre Arts (Fta), 2021

Research Grants (If any):  Early Career Grant by Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), 2014

International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR)

Conference Bursary  2015

 

Ongoing Current Research:

  1. Techniques of Television and Film Production: A Practical Guide (A book project)
  2. Nollywood Directors: Styles and Approaches of Contemporary Nigerian Filmmakers (A Journal Article) 

 

List of Publications:

Olayiwola, A. (2013) Yoruba Video Films and the Dilemmas of Identity.

In Akoh A.D. & Inegbe S.E. (Eds) Arts, Culture and Communication in a

Postcolony: A Festschrift for Lawrence Olanrele Bamidele. Kent, United Kingdom:  Alpha Crownes Publishers, pp. 319-339. (United Kingdom)

Olayiwola A. (2016) Filmic Adaptation in Nigeria: The Example of Thunderbolt and

Koseegbe. In Bakare R.O., Adeoti G.R.& Olaniyan M.The Stage and the

Screen: Perspectives on Arts Production in Contemporary Nigeria: A

Festschrift in Honour of Dr. Gabriel Adekola Oyewo at 70. Kent, United

Kingdom: Alpha Crownes Publishers, pp. 204-218. (United Kingdom)

 

Published Journal Articles:

Olayiwola A. (2007): From Celluloid to Video: The Tragedy of the Nigerian Film

Industry. Journal of Film and Video, Vol. 59, No.3, Fall 2007, pp .58-61. (USA)

Olowonmi J.A., Olayiwola, A.A. and Falade M.O. (2009): Fiction in the Era of

Globalization: Challenges and Implications for Educational Reforms in Nigeria. The Journal of Pan African Studies, 2(9). 226-244. (USA)

Olayiwola, A. and Binebai, B. (2009): The Fourth Literary Genre: Negotiating Text

in Film Semiology. The Parnassus: Uyo Journal of Cultural Studies, 5, 1-19. (USA)

Olayiwola, A. (2010) Yoruba Filmmakers in Search of a Language. Studies in Literature

 and Language, 1(8), pp. 61-70. (Canada)

  • Binebai, B. & Olayiwola A. (2010): Character-Setting Dissonance and Niger-

Delta Representation in Ahmed Yerima’s Little Drops… The Parnassus: Uyo Journal of Cultural Studies, 7, 35-47. (Nigeria)

  • Olayiwola, A. (2011): Beyond Hollywood Formulas: Evolving Indigenous

Yoruba Film Aesthetics. Cross-Cultural Communication (Journal of Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture, Quebec, Canada), 7(2), 219-228. (Canada)

Olayiwola, A. (2011): Nollywood at the Borders of History: Yoruba Travelling

Theatre and Film Development in Nigeria. The Journal of Pan African Studies, 4(5), 183-195. (USA)

Olayiwola, A. (2011): Educational Drama in Nigerian Primary and Post-primary

Institutions: A Curricular Issue. Journal of Functional Management (A Publication of Lead City University, Ibadan), 4(1), pp. 247-258. (Nigeria)

 

Publications after last promotion

  1. Olayiwola A. & Olowonmi J. (2013): Mothering Children in Africa:

Interrogating Single Parenthood in African Literature. Cadernos de Estudos Africanos,  25, 141-159. (Portugal)

  • Olayiwola A. & Babatope B. (2014): Performing Democracy for Sustainable

Development in Nigeria. Nigerian Theatre Journal,14(2), 139-154. (Nigeria)

  • Olayiwola A. & Olowonmi J. (2015) “Negotiating Gender Politics in Akinwumi

Isola’s Efunsetan Aniwura”. Ife: Journal of the Institute of Cultural

     Studies, 11, 203-224. (Nigeria)

  • Olayiwola A. (2015) Rethinking Digital Filmmaking in Nigeria. Wilberforce Island Review: Journal of the Faculty of Arts, Niger Delta University, 13, 187-204. (Nigeria)
  1. Olayiwola A. & Folajimi P. (2017) The Poetics of Demythologisation in Kunle

Afolayan’s The Figurine. Legon Journal of the Humanities, 28(1), pp.

79-89. (Ghana)

xvi.  Olayiwola A. & Awuawuer T.J. (2017) Dance and Music Therapy as Anti-Ageism:

In View of Jimi Solanke. Journal of Biology, Agriculture and Healthcare,

7(6), 25-31. (Netherland)

xvii. Olayiwola A. (2017) Black November as Archetype of New Nollywood and the

Discourse of Niger Delta Insurgency”. The Performer: Ilorin Journal of the Performing Art, 19, 102-111. (Nigeria)

xviii. Olayiwola A. (2018) Between Culture and Politics in Nigeria: Power, Identity and

Democratic Reflections in Tunde Kelani’s Films. International Review of

          Humanities Studies, 3(5), 57-71.

    xix. Olayiwola A. (2018) The Subaltern Tells His Story: Reflections from Ben

Binebai’s My Life in the Burning Creeks. Calabar Journal of the  

                        Liberal Studies, 20(2), 385-401. (Nigeria)

xx   Olayiwola A. & Akano T.G. (2021) Theatre and Drama in Education in Nigeria: A

Theoretical Re-engagement. NDU Journal of Theatre and Media, 3, 1-15. (Nigeria)

xxi. Olayiwola A. (2022) Gendered Nollywood: Interrogating Femininity in Contemporary

Nigerian Films. International Journal of Humanities and Social Science,7(5), 123-

  1. (USA)

Edited and Refereed Conference Proceedings: Nil

Articles Accepted for Publication:

Olayiwola A. (2021) The Dilemma of Filmmaking in Academia: Exploring the Artistic

Oeuvre of Abiodun Olayiwola’s Busola Abel, Majak: Journal of Theatre and Media

            Studies, 3 (1). (Nigeria)

Olayiwola A. (2022) Re-Inventing Film/Media Pedagogy in Nigerian Universities: The Ife

Experience.  NDU Journal of Theatre and Media, 4. (Nigeria)

Akinola, E. & Olayiwola A. (2022) “Portraiture of African Ceremonies in Contemporary

Nigerian Films. The Performer: Ilorin Journal of the Performing Arts,19.

(Nigeria)

Olayiwola A. (2022) “Citation Directed by Kunle Afolayan (Film Review). Akete: LASU

            Journal of Theatre and Media Studies, 4. (Nigeria)

 

Manuscripts Submitted for Publication:

Onikoyi, T. & Olayiwola, A. “Tope Oshin, director. Up North. 2018. 99mins.

English/Hausa/Pidgin. Nigeria (Film Review)”. Journal of African Review.

 

Staff Profile (any other information not captured above):

 Creative Works/Patents:

  1. Producer/Director of Ikekun, a Yoruba movie produced in 2009 under the auspices of Magnum Entertainment Network, Ibadan.
  2. Director, Emi Mi, Emi Re, a Yoruba movie produced by Ademola Aremu in 2010 for May 8 Productions, Ibadan.
  • Director, Ojiji Iwa, a Yoruba video film produced by Lanre Adesuyan and released for home viewing in December 2011.
  1. Director, Fomoloyan, an educational film produced in 2013 to inform women and mothers of the importance of breast-feeding (Producer: Prof. Foluke Ogunleye).
  2. Director, “Iya Baale L’aje” written by Bayo Afolabi. The play was a Departmental Production performed at the Pit Theatre from July 13-17, 2015.
  3. Producer/Director, Exit of a Literary Hero, a documentary film on Late Prof. Akinwumi Isola, sponsored by the Faculty of Arts, OAU in 2018.
  • Producer/Director, Just a Little Love, a Christian short film, 2019.
  • Producer/Director, The Varsity, a university campus-based tele-drama serial, 2020.
  1. Director of Photography, Iya Lomo, a Yoruba language advocacy television drama on breast feeding and child rearing, 2020.
  2. Producer/Director, Busola Abel, a Yoruba language feature-length film, 2021.
  3. Producer/Director, Erioluwa, a Christian Short Film, 2022.