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SocialMediaTrends: Tributes pour in as Nigerian novelist, Biyi Bandele, passes on

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Biyi Bandele, director of movie adaptation of Chimamanda’s book, is dead

It was a sad day in Hollywood on Tuesday as Nigerian novelist and playwright, Biyi Bandele was confirmed dead.

The death of the director of ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ and co-director of ‘Blood Sisters’ was confirmed in a statement released via his Facebook page by his daughter, Temi Bandele.

The Kaduna-born Yoruba novelist spent the first 18 years of his life in the north-central part of the country, before moving to Lagos in 1987 where he studied drama at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

The news of Bandele’s death has shocked his fans and colleagues as they put up his picture to mourn him.

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…By Hamzat Rasheed

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