Actual Formation: Historical Perspective
In the session of 1952-1953, Wole Soyinka, Ralph Okpara, and Nathaniel Oyelola joined hands with others of like minds to form a student-based organization in the newly founded University College Ibadan, Nigeria and called it the Pyrates Confraternity. Others were Olumuyiwa Awe, Aig-Imoukhuede and Slyvanus Egbuche.
These 7 young men were students from the geographical north of Nigeria, west and the mid-west and eastern parts of Nigeria, respectively.
They were mostly residents in Tedder Hall and self-styled themselves as enemies of convention. They used the crossbones and skull insignia as their motif and took on different theatrical-sounding names. They held a gathering called sally to celebrate their camaraderie in noisy revelries, accompanied by music and dance, reminiscent of ancient Greek festivals in the worship of the gods, Dionysius and Apollo which eventually gave rise to attic drama.
Culled from “The Theatrical Aesthetics of Wole Soyinka and the Pyrates Confraternity “

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