SIMILOLUWA HASSAN – The Man Died Movie

Erudite lawyer, politician and orator, Wole’s ‘rational’ friend, while Wole is up to challenge any undesirable status quo by any means necessary, Bola believes in going through the system as a serving commissioner in Oyo State. Wole is deliberate in keeping Bola out of his clandestine schemes against injustice to ‘protect’ him.

Attractive, feisty yet no nonsense nurse at the University College Hospital, Morenike’s chance meeting with Wole will end in a relationship fueled by their mutual hatred of injustice and love of adventure, a relationship which will not only emotionally sustain Wole during his incarceration but also aid his survival.

Ebullient, adventurous and happy go lucky creative turn successful insurance broker, Wole’s Man Friday, there is no dull moment with Femi Johnson. While Wole is a sort of connection to his creative self, his genuineness of spirit and sense of adventure is the glue that holds this enviable friendship together.

Brilliant, counter-culture, university library staff, wife of Wole and co-conspirator in the early years but will baulk as the family suffers from repercussions of her husband’s heady idealism.

Awam Amkpa is a professor of drama, film and social and cultural analysis at New York University in New York and Abu Dhabi. Actor, playwright, director of stage plays, films and curator of visual arts, Awam Amkpa is a Nigerian-American. Awam Amkpa is the author of Theatre and Postcolonial Desires (Routledge, 2003). He is director of film documentaries and curator of photographic exhibitions and film festivals. Amkpa has written several articles on representations in Africa and its diasporas, representations, and modernisms in theater, postcolonial theater, and Black Atlantic films.