The Nation Newspaper How an almanac triggered play on Fajuyi
, Ekiti State and a member of the State Executive Council in the state, explains why he wrote a play on Fajuyi. The play is not only trending now, Bakare has brought his deep background as a playwright/director to bear on the sentiments that define an epic of this proportion and more.
Rasaki took the story from the grassroots, from the moment Fajuyi was born through his career and death. He goes into his family; examining his life, his early education and the circumstances that encouraged him to become a soldier. Watching the rehearsals on the stage was a complete delight because it offered one the opportunity to witness firsthand the sequences that propelled young Fajuyi to enroll as a soldier.
“And as the chairman of the committee for the hosting and also a consultant, I was going to pick a script Langbodo as the command performance for that festival. Then my close friend Wale Lanre Ojo who then was the director general of the Council for Arts and Culture, said, prof. do not use anyone else’s script. Use your own script, any of your scripts will do. So when he said so I said okay let me quickly finish this script on Fajuyi and direct it myself.
Let us teach the young ones that history of the past and reconnect it with the present. That we have to bring back that love we enjoyed as a people. This is why the play is not just historical, it is an epic. It has all the lessons history has refused to teach in the classrooms.
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