New reports regarding the death of prominent novelist, playwright, and Nollywood filmmaker, Biyi Bandele, have surfaced on the internet.
NaijaOnPoint.com.ng (NOP) recalls that Bandele died on 9 August 2022 in Lagos at the age of 54.
Temi Bandele, the daughter of the filmmaker announced his death in a statement but did not disclose the cause.
The Guardian UK in a report published on Sunday, revealed that Bandele committed suicide in August 2022.
The paper noted that Bandele ended his life a day after a conversation 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.”