He started out as Biyi Bandele-Thomas, and shocked the literary world with his amazing precocity. He was admitted to my alma-mater Great Ife (University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University) after I had graduated from the school where Prof Wole…
Tribute to Biyi Bandele, the “fabu master” – Toni Kan
Death is rude! It is especially so in the finality with which it coats everything. In preparing to write this tribute, I referred to the internet to confirm a book title and imagine my shock at the first line –…
Theatre arts practitioners mourn late Nigerian novelist, Biyi Bandele
Nigerian theartre arts practitioners on Tuesday expressed sadness over the death of late Nigerian Novelist and Playwright, Biyi Bandele, who died August 7, at the age of 54. His death was made known in a statement posted on his Facebook…
Filmmaker Biyi Bandele is dead
The family of writer and filmmaker Biyi Bandele has announced his death. The director of Half of a Yellow Sun film and Blood Sisters series was 54. According to a statement by his daughter Temi Bandele on Monday night, he…
Jega goes jaga-jaga – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Confusion has taken over the entire land of Nigeria. To use the popular parlance, “everything is now jaga-jaga!” As I write now, the music of Eedris Abdulkareem booms: “Nigeria jaga-jaga! Everything scatter-scatter! Gunshots in the air…” Let’s start this jaga-jaga…
Biyi Bandele’s ‘Rain’ for stage in Lagos
Rain written by Biyi Bandele will hit the stage at Terra Kulture’s Theatre Arena, Victoria Island, Lagos, on Sunday, August 25, 2019. A production of Park Theatre Lagos in conjunction with Theatre@Terra, the play is about two crazy street sweepers…
A measure of war
A review of Burma Boy by Biyi Bandele Farafina 212pp Of two abiding mysteries of war, the first is that men who have seen active combat seem to always recognise each other. When war veterans who have been at bloody…
