Dapo Adelugba: A Teacher's Reward By Reuben Abati IN the past week, many tributes have been written on Professor Dapo Adelugba, Professor of Theatre Arts and a father-figure in the Nigerian arts community, significantly by his former students, and it is just as well that it is the students whose lives he has touched and helped to mould that are using the occassion of his 70th birthday to celebrate him and to say thank you to a teacher who has devoted his entire life to giving and serving. I am one of his beneficiaries and I can attest to the fact that he is indeed, as all my former school mates readily state, a quintessential teacher. Adelugba as teacher of dramaturgy seeks to instil in his students, the very essence of the Renaissance man who aspired to excel in all things. He is a romantic who believed and still believes in the capacity of every student to develop to his or her fullest potentials. A hardworking s...
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