Eguria

SWEET MOTHER BY PRINCE NICO MBAGA ANALYSIS BY EGURIASE S.M. OKAKA In the early 1980s Prince Nico Mbaga a high life singer from equatorial Guinea stormed the Nigeria music scene with a thought provoking album track titled “SWEET MOTHER.” I was in my tens when I first heard this song from this great singer. This music was a bomb which exploded and unfolded the importance of motherhood to the world. Nico Mbaga narrated the story of motherhood and stylishly shows us the sufferings which mothers go though when rearing their children. His narration also gave hope to the would-be mothers. This is one of the best of Africa music that told the story of a complete Africa mother.   Indeed, this is one story told in the language that all can relate with that is, the pigin English.             Nico seized the opportunity to tell the world of his experience and sufferings his mother went through in bring him up. We can understand ...

DIRECTORIAL CONCEPT                 The directorial concept of a play is the artistic and aesthetic interpretation given to the play by the director; bring out the message of the play or the central ideal or theme of the play story using theatrical forces to achieve his main target. For example he uses: Actors, Costume. Lighting, Theatre Management and the type of stage suitable for the production.   He uses the play to pass across a message and builds the whole play as the architect builds the house and designs it to a comfortable pattern. We can also say that the style of a character and his approach when directing a play can be either surrealistic or not.             THE MESSAGE OF THE DIRECTOR FORMS HIS CONCEPT that is why it is called directorial concept and this concept involves blocking and it approach.      ...