Wole Soyinka Movies

  • 2022
    Elesin Oba: The King's Horseman

    Elesin Oba: The King's Horseman

    Elesin Oba: The King's Horseman

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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...

    Elesin Oba: The King's Horseman
  • 2015
    Shout Gladi Gladi

    Shout Gladi Gladi

    Shout Gladi Gladi

    52015HD

    Shout Gladi Gladi is a documentary about hope. It tells the story of one woman's quest to cure fistula and save mother's lives in Africa. Shot in...

    Shout Gladi Gladi
  • 2013
    Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me

    Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me

    Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me

    6.42013HD

    Khalo Matabane spent two years making the film, interviewing those who knew and loved Mandela, and also those who criticised him. Global thinkers,...

    Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me
  • 2018
    Bigger Than Africa

    Bigger Than Africa

    Bigger Than Africa

    02018HD

    When the slave ships docked in North America, Brazil, and the Caribbean, hundreds of cultures, traditions, and religions landed with the Africans on...

    Bigger Than Africa
  • 1970
    Kongi's Harvest

    Kongi's Harvest

    Kongi's Harvest

    61970HD

    An African dictator (Wole Soyinka) needs to convince the former king (Rashidi Onikoyi) to legitimize his reign by offering him the ceremonial jam at...

    Kongi's Harvest
  • 1963
    Joshua: A Nigerian Portrait

    Joshua: A Nigerian Portrait

    Joshua: A Nigerian Portrait

    01963HD

    Focusing on the pressures people feel moving from the security and nurture of village life to the isolate chaos of big city life, Joshua: A Nigerian...

    Joshua: A Nigerian Portrait
  • 2023
    Death and the King's Horseman

    Death and the King's Horseman

    Death and the King's Horseman

    02023HD

    In British-occupied Nigeria, a Yoruba king, the Alafin, has died, and it is the duty of his horseman, Elesin, to accompany him into the afterlife....

    Death and the King's Horseman