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Biyi Bandele

Writer / Film Director / Screenwriter / Playwright / Novelist | * 10/13/1967 († 54, 08/07/2022) | Kafanchan (Nigeria)
Biyi Bandele (born Biyi Bandele-Thomas; 13 October 1967 – 7 August 2022) was a Nigerian novelist, playwright and filmmaker. He was the author of several novels, beginning with The Man Who Came in From the Back of Beyond (1991), as well as writing stage plays, before turning his focus to filmmaking. His directorial debut was in 2013 with Half of a Yellow Sun, based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. ()
Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Romance / Love | Music

Known for these Movies & Shows

An epic love story: Olanna and Kainene are glamorous twins, living a privileged city life in newly independent 1960s Nigeria. The two women make very different choices of lovers, but rivalry and betra ...

Half of a Yellow Sun

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2013 | 2.5/5 | 1h 46min
Romance / Love, Drama
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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 ...

Elesin Oba: The King's Horseman

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2022 | 3.3/5 | 1h 36min
Drama
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Tola, Elizabeth, Maria and Kate are four friends forced at midlife to take inventory of their personal lives, while juggling careers and family against the sprawling backdrops of the upper middle-clas ...

Fifty

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2015 | 2.6/5 | 1h 41min
Drama, Romance / Love
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The sixth series of Shuga returned to Nigeria and premiered on March 7, 2018. Set against the backdrop of a bustling Lagos metropolis, where we see the northern and southern communities blended togeth ...

MTV Shuga Naija

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2020- | 0.8/5
 
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Movies with Biyi Bandele as Crew(8)

Writing/Screenplay2023 Fela
Directing/Director2022 Elesin Oba: The King's Horseman
Writing/Adaptation2022 Elesin Oba: The King's Horseman
Directing/Director2020 Fela Kuti: Father of Afrobeat
Directing/Director2015 Fifty
Directing/Director2013 Half of a Yellow Sun
Writing/Screenplay2013 Half of a Yellow Sun
Writing/Writer1996 Bad Boy Blues

Additional Information

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Citizenship: Nigeria
Born: Friday, 10/13 1967 (October) in Kafanchan (Nigeria)
Died: Sunday, 08/07 2022 (August) in Lagos (aged: 54)
Zodiac sign: Libra (Chinese zodiac sign: Goat)
Languages: English (EN), Yoruba (YO, native language), Nigerian Pidgin
Educated at: Obafemi Awolowo University
Other names for Biyi Bandele (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Biyi Bandele-Thomas"
Biyi Bandele frequently works together with these people:
Chiwetel Ejiofor (2x, Actor)
Michal Miskiewicz & Slawomir Kurkiewicz (2x, Cast)
Michael 'Truth' Ogunlade (2x, Crew)
John Boyega (1x, Actor)
Anika Noni Rose (1x, Actress)
Paul Thomson (1x, Crew)
Robert Davide (1x, Actor)
Ireti Doyle (1x, Cast)
Sian Evans (1x, Crew)
Nse Ikpe-Etim (1x, Actress)
Naya Amobi (1x, Cast)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:841225, Added: 11/13/2018, Last updated: 04/13/2024