Check out this Yoruba musical short film directed by Tunde Kelani (a name that has come up a lot on this blog lately, in part because he's developing his next feature - an adaptation of a novel titled Dazzling Mirage). It's an adaptation of late Nigerian playwright Hubert Ogunde’s Yoruba E Ronu (aka Yorubas, Think!). Said to be Ogunde’s most famous play, Yoruba E Ronu, was first performed in 1964 (a few years after the country gained its independence from colonial rule), according to what my research tells me, and was considered a scathing political attack against the then premier of Nigeria’s Western region, Chief Samuel Akintola, so...
- 2/8/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
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