A movie can never approximate to the intensity of a novel because it is a visual medium and in many ways a translation. The novel, as scripted narrative, demands the investment of the readers’ imagination. That is where its beauty lies and great is the director who can aspire to that alchemy.
Tag: Biyi Bandele
Two years after novelist, playwright, film director and “fabu master”, Biyi Bandele passed, his family…
Yoruba Boy Running invites us to interrogate the culture and tradition of the Yoruba and their gods as we drink deep from the well of wisdom of these interesting and forward-looking people. It also shows us and reminds us of a part of the slave trade that is not often talked or written about.
In the year that the 44th Alaafin of Oyo, Lamidi Adeyemi III, climbed to the…
it’s the music that serves as a vehicle that drives the plot from its jubilant, carnivalesque opening to its tragic, funereal ending.
Farafina Books releases Manuwa Street, in which French journalist Sophie Bouillon discovers the irresistible energy…
The light dimmed. The camera stopped. And action ceased days ago for Biyi Bandele. All…
He started out as Biyi Bandele-Thomas, and shocked the literary world with his amazing precocity. …
Burma Boy, Biyi Bandele, Farafina, 212pp, Of two abiding mysteries of war, the first is…
Death is rude! It is especially so in the finality with which it coats everything.…
Nigerian theartre arts practitioners on Tuesday expressed sadness over the death of late Nigerian Novelist…
The family of writer and filmmaker Biyi Bandeleh as announced his passing. The director of…