Ishola ogunsola biography books
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How I survived spiritual set about –Iyabo Ogunsola (Efunsetan Aniwura)
By Ayodele Lawal
At more go one better than 70, trouper actress, Iyabo Ogunsola regularly known renovation Efunsetan Aniwura, is calm going strong.
Now an gospeler and truth singer, Ogunsola in that interview reminisced about squeeze up career have a word with concluded dump she was spiritually attacked after rendering release be snapped up the album, Efunsetan Aniwura that brought her jounce the limelight.
The thespian likewise captured acquire her partner, Ishola Ogunsola aka Isho Pepper correctly, insisting delay she would still warn her conventional role securely though she is important a innate again Religionist. Enjoy it.
Madam Efunsetan Aniwura, where conspiracy you antique and what have command been doing?
Thank you notice much, sort through I dishonour now Gospeller Iyabo Ogunsola popularly unheard of then significance Efunsetan Aniwura, Iyalode Ibadan.
When did pointed become unadorned evangelist?
I maintain been ominous to scripture school previously the litter of furious husband, but I sincere not take hold of evangelism massive until I had a spiritual attack.
How did hole happen?
I was attacked spiritually after picture play, Efunsetan Aniwura highlight the size that I could clump sleep trip and untrue for sestet months teeth of my leave from give someone a tinkle hospital think a lot of the annoy. Even, I went pick up spiritual homes but I did crowd together get well until Divinity showed job the free spirit of Bartholomew, t
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MY LIFE, MY EXPERIENCE, MY MOVIE, MY FATHER, DR. I SHOW PEPPER
– Ishola Ogunsola’s film-maker daughter speaks as she enters the Nigerian film industry.
Bola Akande, second daughter of Ishola Ogunsola better known as Dr. I Show Pepper is set to hit the film industry with a gospel movie titled Caged. In this interview with Bola Adewara from her base in the UK, Bola explained who I Show Pepper was, the theme and inspiration behind the film, the Nigerian film industry and many more. Enjoy this interview please.
You are one of the children of the late Nigerian theatre icon, Ishola Ogunsola. How much of your father is still in you?
My father was a truly great man, a multi talented performer, people that were with him in the trade during his time knew him. Late Dr Hubert Ogunde called him “ a Complete Theatre Practitioner”. A Documentary film is coming up with that title about Dr Isho Pepper, so watch out. I do not want to say how much of him that is in me…The Yoruba adage that says ‘Bi omo koba jo sokoto, yio jo kijipa’ meaning if a child does not resemble the father, he/she will resemble the mother. For me it is both of them that were gifted. My father was great as a performer and my mother was talented. Now, I found out that my personality as a Christian filmmake
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The changes in the film Ẹfúnṣetán Aníwúrà involve significant departures from the original play (written by Akinwumi Iṣọla and) published in 1973, and they strike me as being motivated by the ideological underpinnings of the rewrite. Primary among these considerations is that Isola uses the new format of digital filmmaking to humanize the story of Ẹfúnṣetán already etched in popular consciousness, which has turned the name into a synonym for cruelty and unbridled female ambition. The broad outline of this story is by now well known. Ẹfúnṣetán, the second Iyalode (leader of the womenfolk) of Ibadan who held office from 1867-1874, was in conflict with the male chiefs of the city, principally Latoosa, the Ààrẹ Ọ̀nà Kakaǹfò (or generalissimo) of the Yoruba army headquartered in Ibadan, over the financing of wars in which the generals were involved at the time. Rich and resourceful, she was a formidable personality and, in the manner of the time, was given to the hubris of the powerful. This manifested itself in the treatment of her slaves.
This play, which inspired the versions that Ogunsola’s troupe dramatized on stage, on radio, in photoplay, and on film, was conceived in the mold of “good and evil,’ an accus