Biyi bandele biography for kids
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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.
He was the creator of modern Nigerian classics – co-directing the popular Netflix TV series Blood Sisters and writing the coming-of-age war novel Burma Boy. He was as well known for adapting Nigerian literary classics – a film utgåva of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s epic Half of a Yellow Sun and a stage utgåva of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. He had just completed Elesin Oba: The King’s Horseman, a film based on the famous play by Wole Soyinka.
A true born creative, Biyi was a serial storyteller and Renaissance man, who explored a variety of creative avenues in order to share his vision and voice. He started ung, winning his first literary award at just
For the next four decades he worked tirelessly and with enthu
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Bandele, Biyi
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Playwright, novelist
Biyi Bandele is a London-based Nigerian playwright and novelist who is known for his often-satirical depictions of African and African-immigrant life. His plays feature fictional settings in which characters address social, political, and moral issues pertaining to Nigerian life, and he has written fiction works reflecting his experiences as an immigrant living in contemporary England. His theatrical works are characterized by complex dialogue that combines colloquial English with the vocal rhythms of African storytelling and the techniques of European absurdist comedy. Bandele has won several awards for his plays, including the BT Ethnic and Multicultural Award for best play in for his adaptation of Aphra Behn's seventeenth-century novel Oroonoko.
Biyi Bandele-Thomas was born in Kafanchan, Nigeria, in His father, Solomon, whom he called "Baba," was a World War II veteran of the Battle of Burma and worked as an overseer for the local r
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Celebrating the Life and Times of Biyi Bandele
Born in October , in Kafanchan, Kaduna, Biyi Bandele was a renowned filmmaker, playwright, novelist, photographer, poet, director, and producer. His father, Solomon Bandele-Thomas, was a war veteran who fought in World War II while Nigeria was still part of the British Empire, and Biyi&#;s childhood memories were filled with stories of war. These stories formed his decision to become a writer. And he wrote.
Sadly, on Sunday night, Biyi Bandele’s shocking passing was announced.
In an excerpt of his interview with This Day, Biyi said:
When I was a child, I remembered war was something that sprang up a lot in conversations on the part of my dad who talked about the war like one big party. But my mum and grandmother would remind him of how he came back from Burma. He came back in a straitjacket. You know, he completely lost it. It was something that pained him for the rest of his life. He had one or two bullets that were left bec