Biyi Bandele

Popular filmmaker and talented writer, Biyi Bandele has died at the age of 54, his family announced late Monday night.

We ask everyone to please respect the privacy of his family and friends as we grieve his loss,” she added. He told stories which made a profound impact and inspired many all over the world. “He was taken from us much too soon.

His death was announced in a statement released by his family on Monday, noting that he died on Sunday in Lagos. The deceased's daughter, Temi Bandele, ...

“He was taken from us much too soon. He told stories which made a profound impact and inspired many all over the world. His legacy will live on through his work.

Nigerian novelist Biyi Bandele has been confirmed dead through a statement released by his family on Monday, August 8.

“He was taken from us much too soon. He told stories which made a profound impact and inspired many all over the world. His legacy will live on through his work.

The author and director's shocking demise was confirmed by his daughter, Temi Bandele in a social media post. | Pulse Nigeria.

“Biyi was a prodigiously talented writer and film-maker, as well as a loyal friend and beloved father. “He was taken from us much too soon. He told stories which made a profound impact and inspired many all over the world.

Temi Bandele, the daughter of the novelist, announced his death in a statement on Monday evening. It was gathered that the playwright died on Sunday — although ...

“He was taken from us much too soon. He told stories which made a profound impact and inspired many all over the world. “Biyi was a prodigiously talented writer and filmmaker, as well as a loyal friend and beloved father.

The statement read, “As Biyi's Daughter, I am heartbroken to share the sudden and unexpected death on Sunday 7th of August in Lagos of my father Biyi Bandele.”.

Praising her dad, Temi said, “Biyi was a prodigiously talented writer and film-maker, as well as a loyal friend and beloved father. “He was taken from us much too soon. He told stories which made a profound impact and inspired many all over the world.

Biyi is famous for directing 'Half of a yellow Sun', 'Blood Sisters', 'Fifty', 'Nigerian Prince' and the soon-to-be-released 'Elesin Oba' on Netflix.

We encourage you to join the conversation on our stories via our Facebook, Twitter and other social media pages. We wish everyone to please respect the privacy of his family and friends as we grieve his loss.” “I feel so sad spending an extra month after the five months’ strike. She added, “Biyi was a prodigiously talented writer and filmmaker, as well as a loyal friend and beloved father. He told stories which made a profound impact and inspired many all over the world. Temi added, “He was taken from us much too soon.

Acclaimed novelist and filmmaker Biyi Bandele has died aged 54, his family announced in a Facebook post late Monday.

"He was so passionate about Elesin Oba, more so than any of the other projects he had worked on with us... In an interview with CNN in 2014, he said, "I knew I wanted to be a writer from when I was six. "Working with Danny was a game changer. I was five or six, and I just fell in love with the books." He was a storyteller to his bones, with an unblinking perspective, singular voice and wisdom which spoke boldly through all of his art, in poetry, novels, plays and on screen. "He told stories which made a profound impact and inspired many all over the world.

The movie industry globally and particularly in Nigeria, has been thrown into mourning as a film maker, playwright and novelist, Biyi Bandele Thomas, ...

His books were published, and he was given a commission by the Royal Court Theatre. Bandele had ambitions to be a writer and when he was 14-year-old, he won a short-story competition. Eulogising him on his social media handle, Henry said, “At 54, Biyi was too young to die, but his achievements over the years would speak for him, even in his absence. Bandele was born to Yoruba parents in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, Nigeria in 1967. “Biyi had an eye for a story, was always passionate about his work, and had a great work for Yoruba culture. Elesin Oba will premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.

Biyi Bandele, the director of 'Blood Sisters,' has passed away. According to a statement released on Monday by his daughter, Temi Bandele...

We ask everyone to please respect the privacy of his family and friends as we grieve his loss.” She added. “He was taken from us much too soon. He was announced as the director of the new Netflix and Ebonylife TV co-production ‘Elesin Oba’ (The King’s Horseman), which is the screen adaptation of Professor Wole Soyinka’s stage play “Death And The King’s Horseman”.

The celebrated Nigerian novelist and playwright died on Sunday at 54.

His other writing works include The Man Who Came in from the Back of Beyond, The Sympathetic Undertaker, and Yoruba Boy Running, which he recently concluded and submitted for publishing. His latest work is Elesin Oba, the King’s Horseman (2022), which he adapted from Wole Soyinka’s classic drama, Death & The King’s Horseman, and directed for EbonyLife Films. The film is yet to be released but will screen at the Toronto International Film Festival, TIFF, in September. She wrote: “Biyi had an eye for a story, was always passionate about his work, and had a great love for Yoruba culture. Good journalism costs a lot of money. Notable writer and Director Biyi Bandele (Half of A Yellow Sun, Fifty, Blood Sisters And the anticipated Elesin Oba) is DEAD! ‘Elesin Oba’, one of his last works, will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. He was a storyteller to his bones, with an unblinking perspective, singular voice and wisdom which spoke boldly through all of his art, in poetry, novels, plays and on screen. Noises will fizzle in the air just like a fart, and silence is not always golden. At a pivotal point in my career, this man went to bat for me. He had already said so beautifully and had so much more to say. Mufu Onifade, a playwright and dramatist, wrote: “This sudden death pricks me to the marrow! We wish everyone to please respect the privacy of his family and friends as we grieve his loss.”

Frontline novelist, playwright and filmmaker, Biyi Bandele, is dead. He died last Sunday, at the age of 54.

We ask everyone to please respect the privacy of his family and friends as we grieve his loss,” she added. He was a dedicated artist with strong passion for life and a string of successes in his writing and filmmaking career.” “His legacy will live on through his work.

In the lead-up to the release of 'Blood Sisters' and hot on the heels of the movie's Netflix debut, Biyi Bandele, like other executives, was inundated with ...

So, I decided to stay home because I hadn’t stayed in Nigeria for a very long time.” In an interview with TheCable, Bandele argued, “‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ was a miracle that it got made. She’d phoned to find out if I’d be interested in directing another film, not ‘Blood Sisters’. It was so important that I said yes to her offer,” he said. “It was during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Bandele moved to London in 1990 at 22 with the manuscripts of two novels. He would move to Lagos in 1987 and then studied drama at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. Bandele won the International Student Playscript competition of 1989 with an unpublished play ‘Rain’ before claiming the 1990 British Council Lagos Award for a collection of poems. Half of a Yellow Sun took six years to happen.” He acted as a Royal Literary Fund resident playwright at the Bush Theatre from 2002 to 2003. The movie was screened at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). He breathed what became his last on Sunday, July 7, in a development that has since plunged his family, friends, associates and acquaintances into mourning with condolences pouring in from well-wishers still trying to come to terms with the fact that the industry has lost yet another prodigious filmmaker. Bandele was born in Kafanchan, Kaduna state, in 1967. Although the family didn’t divulge much about the circumstances of his death, his daughter Temi described it as “unexpected.”

The passionate love and total commitment of Biyi to his trade as a film director, in photography, art and culture shone through at all times.

Of course he “wowed” his audience during his intervention during the discussions on the film, and why he took Half of a Yellow Sun in the direction he did as director. One of the fitting tributes in his memory and honour will be to institute “The Biyi Bandele Academic Prize” in the Department of Theatre Art at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), his alma matter. While serving as the Director General of the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, he called on me during one of his visits home. We agreed that Africa has a lot to offer the world in the field of art, culture, film and literature, and the unfolding IT revolution presents an opportunity to represent Africa’s art and cultural treasures. I spoke to him in London ahead of his arrival in Australia and we agreed to meet over lunch somewhere in Sydney before the screening of the film. Over lunch we discussed the potentials of the Nigerian and African creativity sector as a solid platform to tackle Africa’s crisis of development.

He was a light in the Nigerian literary community, a beacon of hope to many, and a model to young authors and filmmakers - BellaNaija Features.

In 2007, Biyi Bandele published Burma Boy, a book described as “a horrific, vividly realised account of the madness, the sacrifice and the dark humour of the Second World War’s most vicious battleground. There was a reading of my play at theStephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, Alan Ayckbourn’s theatre, and I was invited. By the age of 22, when Biyi moved to London, he already had manuscripts of two novels he was planning to publish. In 1987, he studied drama at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. In 1989, he won the International Student Playscript competition with an unpublished play, Rain. In 1990, he claimed the British Council Lagos Award for a collection of poems. 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. That was probably one of the things that turned me into a writer.