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 Mathew Oyedele Family and friends of Late Chief Bode Akindele pose for a picture before the statue . Photo credit: Djakou Kassi Nathalie. After a series of daily workings spanning a couple of months, the statue of Chief Bode Akindele was completed and mounted in May 2021 by a workforce that consists of Ato Arinze as the sculptor, Henry Unuigboje and David Kpanaki as studio associates, Djakou Kassi Nathalie as the photographer and Oladapo Oyekunle as the logistics supervisor. Fibre glass, mixed with marble and stone dust, and acrylic bronze as the surface finish was used to actualise the project which was commissioned by the Akindele family in Ibadan to celebrate and immortalise the legacy of Chief Bode Akindele, as a proud father, grandfather, great- grandfather, a successful business man, an industrialist and a philanthropist. Chief Bode Akindele was a man of many enterprises and international connections. He was the Chairman of Modandola Group, a holding company which covers...

Ake, the film adaptation of Wole Soyinka’s classic childhood memoir Ake, The Years of Childhood is now available on Amazon and other global platforms. Set during World War II years, the story combines a beautiful child-view narrative with resonances from the war as heard and imagined in Soyinka’s hometown in Ake, Abeokuta. It climaxes with the Egba women’s riot of 1945, led by Mrs Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, mother of the deceased musician Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. Taiwo Ajayi Lycett (OON) as Madam Amelia Shot at various locations in Abeokuta, Ibadan, Lagos and East Grinstead, UK, the film has been screened in Lagos and at film festivals in Cannes, France and the United States. The French subtitles were contributed by Alliance Francaise in Nigeria.   Directed by Dapo Adeniyi and produced by Back Page Productions, the cast of nearly 1000 feature s some of Nigeria’s foremost professionals in the film and theatre industries including Taiwo Ajayi-Lycett (OON), Yinka Davies, Y...