The Man Died: Profiling Wole Soyinka

This lecture will examine scholarship of the late Professor Tejumola Olaniyan and the making of The Man Died (2024), which the speaker directed and for which they won Best Director at the 2025 Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards (AMVCA). Based on Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka’s harrowing prison memoir, the film chronicles his detention without trial under a brutal military regime determined to silence his voice.