A documentary, Ebrohimie Street: A Museum of Reminiscence, will premiere on July 11 as a part of actions to mark the ninetieth birthday of Nobel laureate Professor Wole Soyinka.
The movie will premiere on the College of Lagos at an occasion themed “ENI-OGUN: An Enduring Legacy,” collectively organized by the Wole Soyinka Worldwide Cultural Alternate (WSICE) and the Nigeria Academy of Letter.
Along with the screening, the occasion consists of a symposium, dance efficiency and reception.
The 110-minute documentary, written and directed by author and cultural researcher Kola Tubosun and with high cinematographer Tunde Kelani behind the digicam, might be proven at different nationwide and international cultural and historic areas.
These embrace the WS90 celebration in London, collectively organized by the WSICE and The Africa Middle on July 20, Africa Centre, New York, Centro Cultural Africano, Mexico (July 13), Committee for Related Arts (CORA), Freedom Park, Lagos (July 14), Hutchinson Middle, Harvard College, USA (September 2024).
Others embrace College of Leeds, UK (October 2024), Lagos Worldwide Poetry Pageant (October 2024) and Lagos E-book & Artwork Pageant (LABAF/CORA) (November 2024).
'Ebrohimie Street, A Museum of Reminiscence' focuses on the small constructing on the College of Ibadan campus the place Professor Soyinka lived as a instructor.
It was the identical bungalow a number of meters from the principle entrance of the college the place Soyinka was arrested in 1967 on costs of “espionage” for daring to cross into the Republic of Biafra to assassinate the then Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, chief of the secessionist group , to discourage from going to struggle. with the federal government of Nigeria.
This led to his 29-month imprisonment by the Nigerian authorities led by Lieutenant Common Yakubu Gowon. He was launched in October 1969, a number of weeks earlier than the struggle resulted in 1970, and though he returned to the home, he didn’t return to his job within the Theater Arts Division, however went into exile in 1971.
Produced by Olongo Africa, Ebrohimie Street options revealing interviews with Soyinka's fast households, kin, associates and comrades,
An announcement from the producers explains: “In Ebrohimie Street: A Museum of Reminiscence we discover how the non-public turned nationwide, by means of the reminiscence of central and peripheral characters; how a small campus residence got here to witness a number of the most vital points in Nigerian social, political and literary historical past, lots of which stay unresolved. And the way ecological adjustments contribute to the erosion of historical past and sense of place. Via tales, pictures and historic information, we uncover what makes Ebrohimie Street greater than only a campus road or bodily location, a spot of historical past and a museum of reminiscence.
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