Private Project

Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory

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?

  • Kola Tubosun
    Director
  • Kola Tubosun
    Writer
  • Kola Tubosun
    Producer
  • Olajide Bello
    Producer
  • Tunde Kelani
    Producer
  • Wole Soyinka
    Key Cast
    "Self"
  • Niyi Osundare
    Key Cast
    "Self"
  • Olayide Soyinka
    Key Cast
    "Self"
  • Olaokun Soyinka
    Key Cast
    "Self"
  • Peyibomi Soyinka-Airewele
    Key Cast
    "Self"
  • Moremi Soyinka-Onijala
    Key Cast
    "Self"
  • Ilemakin Soyinka
    Key Cast
    "Self"
  • Femi Osofisan
    Key Cast
    "Self"
  • Femi Euba
    Key Cast
    "Self"
  • Kitibi Oyawoye
    Key Cast
    "Self"
  • Dan Izevbaye
    Key Cast
    "Self"
  • Remi Raji
    Key Cast
    "Self"
  • Femi Elufowoju jr OBE
    Key Cast
    "Narrator"
  • Odia Ofeimun
    Key Cast
    "Self"
  • Kunle Idowu
    Key Cast
    "Self"
  • Joop Berkhout
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 41 minutes 3 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 1, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    80,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Nigeria
  • Country of Filming:
    Nigeria, United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    RED
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16.9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Lagos
    Nigeria
    July 11, 2024
    Nigerian Premiere
Director Biography - Kola Tubosun

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.

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Director 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.