Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has urged students and staff of the Department of Dramatic Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, to embrace innovation and avoid stagnation.
Soyinka gave the advice on Thursday at the flag-off ceremony of the department’s 50th anniversary, held at the Pit Theatre, OAU, where he was the special guest of honour.
The playwright, who was the department’s pioneer head, said he was struck by its transformation and that of the Pit Theatre several years after leaving the institution.
Describing the anniversary as special to him because he was present at the department’s inception, Soyinka said institutions that bring together students from different parts of the world for learning and creative activities were special but complex to manage.
He said, “To the students and the department, never stay static. Change is what art is all about, and of all the various media of artistic creativity,
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