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Rasak Ojo Bakare (born November 8, 1964) is the first professor of Choreography and Performing Aesthetics from Nigeria. A former Dean of Postgraduate School, Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, former Chief Executive Officer (CEO),and Artistic Director,Abuja Carnival and member,National Academy of Letters.

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  • Rasak Ojo Bakare (born November 8, 1964) is the first professor of Choreography and Performing Aesthetics from Nigeria. A former Dean of Postgraduate School, Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, former Chief Executive Officer (CEO),and Artistic Director,Abuja Carnival and member,National Academy of Letters. (en)
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  • Rasak Ojo Bakare (born November 8, 1964) is the first professor of Choreography and Performing Aesthetics from Nigeria. A former Dean of Postgraduate School, Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, former Chief Executive Officer (CEO),and Artistic Director,Abuja Carnival and member,National Academy of Letters. Rasak started his career in theater arts as a theater apprentice under Jimoh Aliu and Chief Hubert Ogunde,afterward he pursued the profession in the academic world.. As an apprentice, he premiered in " Aropin N'Teniyan" a celluloid film by Hubert Ogunde, 1981/82.. He graduated with a B.A(Hons) in Theater Arts and M A in Play Directing and Playwright from the University of Calabar, Rivers State and he later obtained a Ph.D. in Choreography and Dance Studies from Ahmadu Bello University, ABU, Zaria. As an academic, he started as Graduate Assistant in 1990. By1992, he was a Lecturer II and at the end of 1992 he has become Lecturer 1. He rose to the position of a Senior Lecture by the year 2000.In 2005, he was an Associate professor and full Professor in 2011. As of 2003, Bakare was the Artiste- Scholar in – residence at the University of West Indies, Edna Monkey School of Performing Arts and National Dance Theater Company. In the same year, he was at the University of Pretoria, South Africa for collaborative research on African Musical Arts Education. As a result of his commitment to the field of theater arts in Nigeria, he became the first Nigerian scholar to bag all the three Fellowship in the field of performing arts: a Fellow of Theater Arts (NANTAP), Fellow, Society of Nigeria Theatre Artisities, and Felow, Dance Guild of Nigeria. He has anchored many presidential inaugurations for Nigerian former presidents : Jagunmolu, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Voyage, Alhaji Musa Yaradua. and Langbodo . Dr.Goodluck Jonathan.. In recognition of his impact in Art and Culture in Ekiti state, Bakare and the other 13 professional indigenes of Ekiti were honored as Cultural Ambassador by Governor Kayode fayemi. As of January 2020, he was the commissioner for Art, Culture and Tourism in Ekiti State. His professional career has taken him outside the shore of Nigeria ; between 1994–1996, Rasak worked as Choreographer to the Gambia's National Troupe. Bakare, married to Dr.Lilian, a specialist in Costume and a lecturer at the Department of Theater and Media Arts,Federal University Oye-Ekiti. (en)
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