Film adaptation of Wole Soyinkas book Ake on Amazon
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by joshua olomu2 others are yinka davies the musical icon featured as mrs funmilayo ransome kuti and lanike onimisi and gbenga ajiboye are mr and mrs soyinka woles parents respectively1 amazon is the worlds acclaimed largestinternet retailer of video and mp3downloads and streaming1 mr dapo adeniyi executive producer and director of the film made this known in an interview with the news agency of nigeria nan in abuja on friday1 according to adeniyi efforts to put the film which has been screened in lagos and some international film festivals on amazon is to make it accessible around the world because ofits international appeal1 ake as a novel is read in secondary schools in california and manyother parts of the world and that kind of material with stronginternational appeal and acceptance must be made accessible to everyone1 a distributor may not have the resources to market it to wherever it is needed in all parts of the world1 people have been calling from all over the place to ask how they can get ake film and now under this arrangement someone can buy it online or rent it he explained1 adeniyi described the ake story as an epic that was very significant in nigerias history and must be immortalised for reminiscence especially for the younger generation1 the film adaptation of wole soyinkas classic autobiographical novel ake the years of childhood is now available to viewers on amazon.com1 shot at various locations in abeokuta ibadan lagos and east grinstead uk ake is a scintillating film adaptation of one of the most captivating childhood reminiscences of all time1 it combines a beautiful child-view narrative technique with direct echoes from the war as heard or imagined down in ake abeokuta1 nan reports that ake the years of childhood set in the years just before world war ii is a memoir by nigerian nobel laureate wole soyinka that was first published in 19811 it tells the story of soyinkas boyhood before and during world war ii in a yoruba village in western nigeria called ak where the author spent the first 12 years of his life1 the story ends with egba womens riot of 1945 a major historic event in nigeria1 the film adaptation produced by back page productions has a cast of about 1000 persons which includes some veteran nigerian artistes1 taiwo ajayi-lycett featured as one of the outspoken egba women in the famous egba women riots of 19451 he added that film adaptation would send the readers ofake back to the book and we hope we will really succeed in doing that1