The Theatre Master’s Episode

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‘Niyi Coker, Jr. is currently Professor & Director of the School of Theatre, Television and Film at San Diego State University in California. Prior to which for 14 years, he was the E. Desmond Lee Endowed Chair & Distinguished Professor in African-American Studies at the University of Missouri in Saint Louis. Despite formidable opposition, he created the first and only degree granting program in African-American Studies at the University of Alabama in 1999—almost 30 years post-civil rights movement.

Passionate, inquisitive and creative, Dr.‘Niyi Coker is an award winning filmmaker, theatre director and author who embodies that almost indefinable, indefatigable, all conquering Nigerian spirit. From that golden era at University of Ife when the constellation of stars and future stars were all at the same place at the same time - Soyinka, Ogunbiyi, Kole Omotoso, Ahmed Yerimah, Chuck Mike and ‘Niyi - a nephew of the great Ola Rotimi! It was perhaps inevitable that he would go on to great things.

We talk about:

Great Ife!

Steel Pulse

Bob Marley

Confessions of an Economic Hitman

Africa Unite!

Dr Niyi’s inspiring bucket list

Dr Niyi Coker’s mail address on LinkedIn

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CONTENT BUCKET FROM THIS EPISODE

MUSE

Molefi Kete Asante

“People who have sacrificed and paved the way for us to be here” Dr Niyi Coker

WORKS

A Raisin in the Sun

Africa World Documentary Film Festival

MOVIES

Exterminate All The Brutes - Raoul Peck

MUSIC

Bob Marley

Steel Pulse - Mass Manipulation

TRAVEL

Fiji Islands

BOOKS

The Physics of God - Joseph Selbie

The Confessions of an Economic Hitman - John Perkins

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