‘One Muse, many masks: Reflections on Ahmed Yerima’s recent drama,’ edited by Professor Gbemisola Adeoti and published by Kraft Books, is a compendium of 17 critical essays by 17 scholars on various aspects of the literary works of Professor Ahmed Yerima – as well as an extensive interview with the dramatist by Professor Adeoti. The publication covers over 30 plays, from Idemili, Akuabata, Little Drops, Odenigbo, Druggs, Queen Amina, Iyase, Abobaku to Muadin’s Call and No Pennies for Mama.
As noted by the author, Yerima, dramatist and former director of the National Troupe, is a major in Nigerian theatre and ‘his concrete contributions to Nigerian dramatic literature have become subjects of doctoral and post-doctoral studies.’ His books, Adeoti further noted, are being avidly discussed in conference papers, journal articles, book-length studies and others.