MOVIE REVIEW: Wale Ojo steps into Soyinka’s shoes in ‘The Man Died’, but does it convince?
Inspired by Soyinka’s prison memoir, The Man Died: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka, the film res one of the defining periods of the writer’s life: his arrest and imprisonment during the Nigerian Civil War.
Plot The Man Died follows Soyinka (Wale Ojo), a writer and public intellectual whose attempt to mediate during the Nigerian Civil War eventually contributes to his detention by the military government.
The film also res the atmosphere of military coups, ethnic violence, political suspicion and the struggle for national unity that defined one of the most turbulent periods in Nigeria’s history.
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