Research Catalog
Joseph Ohiomogben Okpaku plays
- Title
- Joseph Ohiomogben Okpaku plays, [1966]-1967.
- Author
- Okpaku, Joseph Ohiomogben
- Supplementary Content
- Finding aid
Details
- Additional Authors
- Negro Ensemble Company
- Found In
- c2pc Negro Ensemble Company. Negro Ensemble Company records. (CStRLIN)NYPW98-A157.
- Description
- 2
- Summary
- Collection includes photocopies of two play scripts.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Schomburg NEH Humanities Resources for African and African Diasporan Studies Access Project.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Scripts.
- Plays.
- Access (note)
- There are no restrictions on access to the plays.
- Source (note)
- Negro Ensemble Company
- Biography (note)
- Playwright, critic, author, editor, engineer and publisher.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms a part of: Negro Ensemble Company records. See collection record for more information.
- Processing Action (note)
- Cataloged
- Call Number
- Sc MG 345
- OCLC
- NYPW98-A330
- Author
- Okpaku, Joseph Ohiomogben.
- Title
- Joseph Ohiomogben Okpaku plays, [1966]-1967.
- Access
- There are no restrictions on access to the plays.
- Linking Entry
- Forms a part of: Negro Ensemble Company records. See collection record for more information.
- Biography
- Playwright, critic, author, editor, engineer and publisher. Okpaku was born in 1943 (some sources say 1935), in Lokoja, Nigeria, and came to the United States in 1962. He was graduated from Northwestern University, B.A., 1965; Stanford University, M.S., 1966, and further graduate study; University of Warsaw, research fellow, 1969. Okpaku is the publisher and president of The Third Press, the New York publishing house. He is also the editor of the highly regarded humanities review, Journal of the New African Literature and the Arts. Okpaku is a member of International P.E.N., African Studies Association (member of executive board, 1971), and National Writers Club. He is a recipient of the BBC drama award, 1967, for his play, "The virtues of adultery".
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Okpaku, Joseph Ohiomogben. Virtues of adultery.Okpaku, Joseph Ohiomogben. Frogs on Capitol Hill.Negro Ensemble Company.
- Found In:
- c2pc Negro Ensemble Company. Negro Ensemble Company records. (CStRLIN)NYPW98-A157.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 345