Firstclass newsline~A pioneer of the Nigerian film industry and former
newspaper columnist, Pa Francis Oladele, is dead.
He was said to have died on Monday morning in his home town, Oyo,
after a brief illness. He would have been 83 years in August.
Oladele was the producer of the first indigenous film in Nigeria,
which was a screen adaptation of Prof. Wole Soyinka's play
titledKongi's Harvest, released in 1969.
Also, he worked as a photo-journalist with Daily Times of Nigeria
where he started the popular column, Social Diary, before travelling
to the United States of America to study photography at the popular
New York Institute of Photography.
He was also the pioneer African Head of the Film Unit of the defunct
Western Nigeria Television in Ibadan.
Oladele's works have continued to attract scholarly attention by
students and researchers in the area of film production, both at home
and abroad.
Reacting to the news of his death, seasoned film-maker, Tunde Kelani,
says the Nigerian film industry has just lost one of its greatest
pioneers. He says, "I remember when I visited him in 2013 to
re-present his i-Rep award. He was very cheerful, charming and full of
anecdotes as he conducted us round his rich library and wooded
compound, ending the tour with his prepared grave of more than 15
years, right by his late wife's grave. Incidentally, Femi Robinson
(Village Headmaster), who acted inKongi's Harvest, was buried in Lagos
last week. May their gentle and creative souls rest in peace."
Firstclassnewsline.net
newspaper columnist, Pa Francis Oladele, is dead.
He was said to have died on Monday morning in his home town, Oyo,
after a brief illness. He would have been 83 years in August.
Oladele was the producer of the first indigenous film in Nigeria,
which was a screen adaptation of Prof. Wole Soyinka's play
titledKongi's Harvest, released in 1969.
Also, he worked as a photo-journalist with Daily Times of Nigeria
where he started the popular column, Social Diary, before travelling
to the United States of America to study photography at the popular
New York Institute of Photography.
He was also the pioneer African Head of the Film Unit of the defunct
Western Nigeria Television in Ibadan.
Oladele's works have continued to attract scholarly attention by
students and researchers in the area of film production, both at home
and abroad.
Reacting to the news of his death, seasoned film-maker, Tunde Kelani,
says the Nigerian film industry has just lost one of its greatest
pioneers. He says, "I remember when I visited him in 2013 to
re-present his i-Rep award. He was very cheerful, charming and full of
anecdotes as he conducted us round his rich library and wooded
compound, ending the tour with his prepared grave of more than 15
years, right by his late wife's grave. Incidentally, Femi Robinson
(Village Headmaster), who acted inKongi's Harvest, was buried in Lagos
last week. May their gentle and creative souls rest in peace."
Firstclassnewsline.net
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