New reports regarding the death of Novelist, playwright, and filmmaker, Biyi Bandele, have surfaced on the internet.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that renowned filmmaker died on Sunday, 9 August 2022 in Lagos at the age of 54.
Temi Bandele, the deceased’s daughter who issued the statement on behalf of the family, described him as “a prodigiously talented writer and film-maker, as well as a loyal friend and beloved father.”
However, a recent report by the Guardian UK on Sunday, revealed that Bandele committed suicide in August 2022.
According to the paper, the filmmaker had ended his life a day after discussing with his editor, Hannah Chukwu, about his novel, ‘Yorùbá Boy Running’ in early April 2022.
The paper said after their discussion, Bandele sent his editor a revised version of the manuscript before committing suicide.
The newspaper reported, “On the following day, the 54-year-old filmmaker, playwright and novelist took his own life.
“He left behind an impressive and strikingly varied body of work: the film adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun, which took seven years to make; stage versions of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko and Lorca’s Yerma; poetry, screenplays and several novels including 2007’s Burma Boy, which told the story of his father’s harrowing and brutal experiences as a British army soldier in the second world war.”