Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory

Directors:

Writers:

Kola Tubosun

Producers:

Kola Tubosun, Olajide Bello, Tunde Kelani

Run Time:

1:41:03

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Before he became Africa's first Nobel Prizewinner in Literature, a small campus bungalow at the University of Ibadan played an outsized role in the life of a man, Wole Soyinka, his family, his university, and the nation. Here's the story. How do we preserve not just what we remember but the physical markers of such transient memory?

Submitter Statement

History is not always printed in books. It surrounds us everywhere we look: in faces, in physical structures, in stories passed down from mouth to mouth. "Ebrohimie Road" is my first film project, a passion project in documentation and the retrieval of history. It continues my engagement with the subject of memory and archiving, which has occupied me as a linguist, creative writer, and tech innovator. In the documentary film, we examine how the personal story of one man and one family became the story of the whole nation at a crucial time. In "Ebrohimie Road", which doubles as an exploration of history and an exhumation of what is lost, I discover not just a hidden part of Nigerian literary, cultural, and political history, but also how ecological changes contribute to the erosion of memory. The work is also unique in the way it documents the life and legacy of Africa's first Nobel Prizewinner from a time in his life before he became a household name -- from an angle of the personal and the intimate, using a physical location as an anchor. I look forward to seeing how the crowd reacts to it, and how it continues the conversation about what and how we remember.

Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún is a Nigerian writer and linguist, publisher of OlongoAfrica.com, Fulbright scholar, Chevening Research Fellow, and author of books of poetry and a dictionary of names. He is the winner of the Special Prize of Premio Ostana in 2016, and the current co-editor of Best Literary Translations anthology. His work has been published in Nigeria and around the world. This is his first film project.

Key Cast

Wole Soyinka, Niyi Osundare, Olayide Soyinka, Olaokun Soyinka, Peyibomi Soyinka-Airewele, Moremi Soyinka-Onijala, Ilemakin Soyinka, Femi Osofisan, Femi Euba, Kitibi Oyawoye, Dan Izevbaye, Remi Raji, Femi Elufowoju jr OBE, Odia Ofeimun, Kunle Idowu, Joop Berkhout

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