Esiaba Irobi

Esiaba Irobi (1960–2010) was a Nigerian poet, playwright, actor and academic. Irobi was born on 10 January 1960. He held a Bachelor of Arts in English/Drama and a Master of Arts in Comparative Literature from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, a Master of Arts in Film and Theatre from the University of Sheffield, Sheffield UK and a PhD in Theatre Studies from the University of Leeds, UK. He taught at Liverpool John Moores University in England and the Tisch School of the Arts, of New York University, and was associate professor of International Theatre and Film Studies at Ohio University, Athens, USA. Quotes My father's name is Enoch Amaikpe Irobi and he was a headmaster. My mother is Rosana Nwambueze Akwarandu and she was a seam- stress, an oral poet of the first order, and a teacher of the domestic kind, teaching to make cakes, how to sew, and all that. My village is Amapu Igbengwo in Umuakpara, where you have Eke-Akpara market (which was the revered headquarters for the Aba Women's Revolution in 1929. That was where the women who had guns were waiting, five miles to Aba). My mother is from Owahia. All these are in Obioma Ngwa in Abia State, Nigeria.