Soyinka
“Ebrohimie Road” Screens at Randle Centre
On December 29, 2024, OlongoAfrica hosted a highly anticipated holiday screening of Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory at the J.Randle Centre in Onikan, Lagos. The film, which premiered in July 2024 as part of events to mark Wole Soyinka’s 90th birthday has had a global tour, screening in London, Mexico, and parts of the […]
Looking Through Ẹlẹ́ṣin’s Hourglass
Or How to Render Metaphysics in Film There is now the quartet, in film, of Ernst Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal), Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter), Cary Joji Fukunaga (James Bond, No Time to Die) and Biyi Bándélé, (Ẹlẹ́ṣin Ọba), who in my opinion, have brought something special to the understanding of the human condition, […]