[4] Osofisan is Vice President (West Africa) of the Pan African Writers' Association.

[5] In 2016, he became the first African to be awarded the prestigious Thalia Prize by the International Association of Theatre Critics,[6] the induction ceremony taking place on 27 September.

[8][9] He has also written four prose works: Ma'ami, Abigail, Pirates of Hurt and Cordelia, first produced in newspaper columns, in The Daily Times and then The Guardian.

Osofisan in his works also emphasizes gender: his representation of women as objects, objects of social division, due to shifting customs and long-lived traditions, and also as instruments for sexual exploitation; and his portrayal of women as subjects, individuals capable of cognition, endowed with consciousness and will, and capable of making decisions and effecting actions.

[citation needed] In 2013, drawing inspiration from Cao Yu’s Thunderstorm and juxtaposing its narrative with contemporary events in his homeland, Osofisan wrote the play All for Catherine, which concerns class struggle, neocolonialism in China’s activities in Africa and the anti-Chinese sentiment growing among Africans.