He committed suicide – New details of how popular Nollywood filmmaker, Biyi Bandele died emerges

New reports regarding the death of prominent novelist, playwright, and Nollywood filmmaker, Biyi Bandele, have surfaced on the internet.

TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) 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.”