Kola Tubosun, poet, linguist, lexicographer and filmmaker added another feather to his heavily plumed cap with his win at the Africa USA International Film festival. His documentary film; Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory, won Best Documentary at the festival which held in California, USA from November 18-19, 2024.
In an effusive Facebook post on Tuesday, November 19, 2024; the filmmaker wrote:
We won Best Documentary at the Africa-USA International Film Festival in Los Angeles tonight.
The body is tired but the heart is full. A lovely evening with storytellers and dreamers. ‘Ebrohimie Road’ now belongs to the world. A story conceived and laboured on over geographical, cultural, political, and personal spaces now finds resonation in its own sphere, within diverse hearts, away from me.
Thanks are due to people too many to mention: the funders, the cinematographer, the project manager, co-producers, subjects, colleagues and friends, sounding boards, family who bore the stress of absences with resolve, the editor, the sound mixer, the colourist, etc, and the audiences who have continued to engage with the story in their own ways. etc, etc.
May it continue to travel.
Released in July to mark Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka’s 90th birthday the documentary memorialises the house Soyinka lived in during his stint at the University of Ibadan. It was also the house from where he was arrested and to which he returned after 2 years in solitary confinement.
Describing the film as “crisp and evocative ” Toni Kan writes in his review for The Lagos Review that “the documentary’s biggest achievement lies in the way it humanises Wole Soyinka by shining a bright light on the Nobel laureate’s private life away from his books. As the film unspools, we meet his very accomplished daughters, sons, sister and ex-wife, who had always taken a back seat to his prodigious literary achievements and larger than life stature.”
The roll call of winners:
