Biyi Bandele obituary
Novelist, playwright and film-maker whose directorial debut was Half of a Yellow Sun, based on the 2006 novel
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Elesin Oba, the King’s Horseman is a new movie coming to Netflix. It is based on Nigeria’s most famous play, Death and the King’s Horseman, written in 1975 by Nobel Prize-winning author, activist and academic Wole Soyinka. Directed by the late Biyi Bandele, the film – in the Yoruba language…
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Biyi Bandele, a serial storyteller who elevated Nigerian culture
The writer, film-maker and theatre creator Biyi Bandele has passed away at the age of 54, news that has stunned the West African arts community where he was a creative icon who told classic Nigerian stories, sometimes in the Yoruba language, to a global audience.
The Conversation ·
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