Wednesday, 9 April 2014

Notable Nigerians - Meet Nigerian novelist and playwright Biyi Bandele

Nigerian novelist and playwright, Biyi Bamidele
Biyi Bandele-Thomas, 47 is a Nigerian novelist and playwright generally known as Biyi Bandele. He was born in Nigeria and attended the University of Ife, now known as the Obafemi Awiolowo University before coming to England in 1990.
Bandele is one of the most versatile and prolific of the U.K.-based Nigerian writers, having turned his hand to theater, journalism, television, film, and radio, as well as the fiction with which he made his name. Acclaimed as both a prolific playwright and a versatile novelist, his 1997 adaptation of fellow Nigerian Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart for the British stage confirmed his place as an important voice on the post-colonial stage.

He wrote the screenplay for Half a Yellow Moon, a novel by Chimamanda Adichie which will be released this summer worldwide. He currently resides in London.

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