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    ‘OYO Lo Wa’: When a People Reject a Defiant Playwright
    (University of Maiduguri, 2026-07) Ojoniyi Olabode Wale
    Most postcolonial States are arguably dysfunctional. Thus, playwrights in such States like Nigeria often find themselves at a junction the people inform them, in the language of the street that, ‘OYO lo wa,’ you are ‘On Your Own’, whenever they engage the decadence in the polity in their works. This response-position of the people reminds one of works like Playing Dangerously…, a work that foregrounds the precariousness of being a committed playwright in a postcolonial frontier of terror as Osofisan (2010) puts it. The masses, for the fear of their survival, often abandon the playwrights to the brutality of the State hegemonies. So, how does a writer respond to the terror of betrayal by the people he/she seeks to mobilize for socio-cultural revolution? And, when the masses see him/her as a subversive writer, where does he/she draw the strength to remain defiant in his/her pursuit of socio-political justice and economic inclusivity for all? As a playwright, one who has decided to be rebellious against the hegemonies, these are the issues I try to address in this paper using the theory of dialectical-texts-consciousness. I try to argue that one must transcend ‘it-Self’ to continue to remain a nonconforming writer against postcolonial hegemonies.
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    Beyond Cultural Alienation: Rethinking the Omoluabi Neo-Absurdist’s Theatre of Intentionality Performance Aesthetics
    (2026-07-10) Ojoniyi Olabode Wale; Ike Lauretta Nkiruka
    In certain recent critical interventions on the Nigerian theatre stage, Ojoniyi and others (2026, 2025, 2024, 2023a, 2021a, & 2021b) have raised issues around the Yoruba Omoluabi character philosophy as a performance theory and aesthetics. In the process, such concepts as neo-absurdism, self-of-selves, cultural conditioning, Omoluabi-intentionality of ego-mutilation and ego-inversion were freely used and engaged, perhaps as new tropes for the understanding of the motivations of/for the collective and individual’s cultural imagination of identity formation, action and counter actions generations against what may be seen as representing unspoken cultural alienation of the masses through the activities of few cultural hegemonies. As such, the identified tropes are essentially subtly deployed against what is seen as representing a foreclosed or assumed intransitive imagination of African culture that basically helps to sustain the said socio-cultural alienation of the common people in different cultural spaces. Reinterrogating the claims that culture is also a tool of socio-economic manipulation, class control and hegemonic privileging (Ojoniyi 2023b & 2021b) this paper reengages the concepts above as tropes for the deconstruction of the ideas of culture as an intransitive primordial existential legacy of the African past. It further argues that within certain contemporary developments and realities, many African cultural legacies of the past are no-longer relevant or functional. And, employing Ojoniyi’s dialectical-text-consciousness theory (2012 & 2013), it proposes a systemic understanding and appreciation of every socio-cultural text as a progressive and cumulative transitive consciousness/intentional text – in which there is no fixed or prima culture that cannot be challenged and deconstructed for the generation of new/progressive meanings.
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    When Ethics is Afraid of the Truth: Framing and Counter Framing of Yoruba Omoluabi Character Discourse in Ojoniyi’s Memoir Plays
    (2026-07-10) Ojoniyi Olabode Wale; Ike Lauretta Nkiruka; Ojoniyi Moyosola; Ojuyenum Jacklin Ekenemechukwu; Alabi Araham Jr Santos
    Abstract In this paper, we argue that many societies in Nigeria arguably pay lip service to their avowed ethics and moralities in the face of uncomfortable truth. Drawing on the personal experience of the blackmail of Bode Ojoniyi in Osun State University to cover the crimes of the manipulation of more than 93 results of the 2013/14 graduating students of the Department of English and International Studies and the compromise of the members of the Directorate of State Security Service, we undertake a critical rethinking of how the Management of the University and the individuals that are involved in the crimes struggle to renegotiate clear ethical positions of the Yoruba communal Omoluabi morality to protect crime, criminals and criminality. In the process, we reengage the notions/ideals of resistance, counter-resistance, Omoluabi, neo-Omoluabiism, absurdism, neo-absurdism, ego-inversion, ego-mutilation, ego-repositioning, cultural conditioning, and counter-cultural conditioning, within the praxis of dialectical-text-consciousness (2012) to argue that most Nigerians – as represented in the individuals involved in the Uniosun crimes and criminality – practise, as in the title of this paper, such societal ethics and moralities that are afraid of the truth. We build our arguments around the analysis of Ojoniyi’s three memoir plays – For the Love of Sisyphus, A Dance of Beasts, and One Blackmail Too Many – and the critical essays he has written on the experience. We conclude that for ethics to embrace the truth/truthfulness, individuals must be willing, like Sisyphus, to be defiant against the hegemonies – the gods – who often seek to manipulate the truth. Keywords: Neo-Omoluabiism, neo-absurdism, ego-inversion, ego-mutilation, ego-repositioning, cultural conditioning
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    Factors Influencing ICT Utilization For Service Delivery in Special Libraries in North Central Nigeria.
    (International Journal of Information Communication Technology, 2019-06-02) Mommoh Rose Lade; Egbunu Aishat Joyce
    Conversation with Gemini extract the abstract and key words from the pdf Here is the abstract and key words extracted from the document: The study investigated factors influencing the utilization of information and communication technology (ICT) for service delivery in special libraries in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The study was guided by three hypotheses. Survey research design was used for the study. The population comprised of one hundred and twenty-six (126) professional and para professional staff in fifteen (15) research libraries in North-Central, Nigeria. But the sampled population for the study comprised of eighty three (83) library staff from eight (8) research libraries in North Central Nigeria. Questionnaire was used for data collection. Seventy-six (76) copies of questionnaire were completed and returned. Pearson Products Moment Correlation (PPMC) was used to test the null hypotheses. The study revealed that the influence of library staff perceived usefulness and attitude on their intention has significant influence on their utilizations of ICT for service delivery in research libraries studied but the influence of library staff perceived ease of use on their intention has no significant influence on their utilization of ICT for service delivery in special libraries studied. On the basis of the research findings some recommendations were made
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    Availability and Utilization of Information Communication Technology for Book Production by Publishers in Nigeria
    (International Journal of Information and Communication Technology, 2018-06-01) Egbunu Aishat Joyce; Mommoh Rose Lade
    This study assessed the Availability of Information Communication Technology for book production in selected publishing companies in Nigeria. Three objectives, three research questions were tested. Survey research design was adopted for this study. The target population of five hundred and forty-six personnel in the ten publishing companies was used, and purposive sampling technique was adopted for the selection of the sampled publishing companies. The research instrument for this study was a self-designed questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics of frequency counts and percentages for research questions The findings showed that, book production by Nigerian publishers recorded one hundred titles per year as production rate; information communication and technology facilities for book production were sufficiently available in all the ten publishing companies. Similarly, Nigerian publishers used Information Communication Technology facilities to promote sales, distribution of books locally and internationally. These facilities were also used for editorial procedures, advertisement, announcement of forthcoming titles and communication among publishers, authors, booksellers in Nigeria and abroad. The challenges of the publishing companies include insufficient training facilities, lack of trained staff, and high cost of training and unsteady power supply. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that, there should be increase of production rate from one hundred to five hundred titles per year depending on customer's patronage; training and retraining of staff to keep abreast of technological development in areas of book production and upgrading of ICT facilities to meet current demands in publishing.