Movies: Wole Soyinka

  • 2022
    Elesin Oba: The King's Horseman

    Elesin Oba: The King's Horseman (2022)

    Elesin Oba: The King's Horseman

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    Inspired by true life events, in the Oyo Empire in the 1940's, Elesin Oba, the king's chief horseman, succumbs to the lure of beauty and sexual desire on the very evening he is set to die in order to fulfil his lifelong debt of ritual suicide to acco...

    Elesin Oba: The King's Horseman
  • 2013
    Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me

    Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me (2013)

    Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me

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    Khalo Matabane spent two years making the film, interviewing those who knew and loved Mandela, and also those who criticised him. Global thinkers, politicians and artists including the Dalai Lama, Henry Kissinger and Ariel Dorfman talk about the effe...

    Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me
  • 1970
    Kongi's Harvest

    Kongi's Harvest (1970)

    Kongi's Harvest

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    An African dictator (Wole Soyinka) needs to convince the former king (Rashidi Onikoyi) to legitimize his reign by offering him the ceremonial jam at the upcoming harvest festival....

    Kongi's Harvest
  • 2015
    Shout Gladi Gladi

    Shout Gladi Gladi (2015)

    Shout Gladi Gladi

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    Shout Gladi Gladi is a documentary about hope. It tells the story of one woman's quest to cure fistula and save mother's lives in Africa. Shot in Malawi and Sierra Leone (just prior to the Ebola crisis) this is an intense portrait of the people suffe...

    Shout Gladi Gladi
  • 1963
    Joshua: A Nigerian Portrait

    Joshua: A Nigerian Portrait (1963)

    Joshua: A Nigerian Portrait

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    Focusing on the pressures people feel moving from the security and nurture of village life to the isolate chaos of big city life, Joshua: A Nigerian Portrait tells the story of Joshua Sobitan, a rent-collector living in Lagos....

    Joshua: A Nigerian Portrait