License

Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory is a documentary film suitable for educational screenings for both young and adult students/professionals of all cultures. The film touches on numerous universal themes, as well as issues and themes specific to the African continent, which makes it ideal audio-visual material for discussions as part of African Studies/Film Studies courses. As it deals with the life of Africa’s first Nobel Prizewinner in Literature, it’s also an important cultural, literary, and historical material.

Main themes include:

• African literature and the place of Wole Soyinka in it.
• African leadership and politics post-colonial independence
• African writers and their role in political advocacy post-colonialism.
• Resistance, Independence and Identity: The role of African academic institutions such as the University of Ibadan as a space for creativity and freedom of expression in post-colonial Africa 
• Gender, feminism and culture in African society 
• Cultural heritage and history: the importance of the preservation of objects and spaces for future generations
• Civil Wars in Africa and its many consequences
• Home as history; home as heritage
• Ecology, eco-politics and the African landscape: the role of modernity and urbanization in the degradation of space

The film deals with memory and trauma and how the literary writings and political advocacy  of Nigerian authors  such as Wole Soyinka often led to imprisonment and exile. The film also sparks important discussions about preservation of heritage showing  the tension between conservation and the preservation of spaces and objects versus deforestation, modernity and urbanization. The University of  Ìbàdàn provides the central backdrop as the space of creativity, gathering and social and political influence in Nigeria then and now. Much of the events from the film take place within the campus of the University.

On this page are details about securing a viewing license for Ebrohimie Road at your institution, library, school, event, or cinema.*

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What licenses are available:

• One-time viewing license (for events and occasions) — $500 (with option to include Q & A discussion with director Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún)
• Yearly (renewable) license — $999
• Three-year license ($2550)
• Perpetual non-exclusive educational license (negotiable)

What the license will grant access to

• The film
  1. Cinema cut: [1.36.21 minutes]
  2. Director’s cut: [1.45.14 minutes]
• Interviews (with rough transcripts)
  1. Interview with Wole Ṣóyínká [43.56 minutes]
  2. Interview with Dan Izevbaye [38.23 minutes]
  3. Interview with Folabo Ajayi-Ṣóyínká [1.24.46 minutes]
  4. Interview with Joop Berkhout [10.35 minutes]
  5. Interview with Olaokun Ṣóyínká [26.18 minutes]
  6. Interview with Niyi Osundare [1.12.27 minutes]
  7. Interview with Kitibi Oyawoye [(8.13 minutes]
  8. Interview with Femi Osofisan [24.41 minutes]
  9. Interview with Remi Raji [32.22 minutes)]
  10. Interview with Olayide Ṣóyínká [1.15.22 minutes]
  11. Interview with Ilemakin Ṣóyínká [30.42 minutes]
  12. Interview with Femi Euba [2.09.57]
• Curriculum & Suggested Reading Essays by Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún
  1. Ebrohimie Road Film summary: Director’s vision (one page)
  2. The Ebrohimie Photograph (one page)
  3. Wole Ṣóyínká’s Relationship with the University of Ìbàdàn (one page)
  4. Ṣóyínká’s 1967 Op-Ed (four pages)
  5. Ṣóyínká in Biafra (two pages)
  6. Ṣóyínká in Prison (one page)
  7. Ṣóyínká in Exile (one page)
  8. The Full Text of Ṣóyínká’s Resignation Essay Sent to his Students (Two pages)
  9. Ṣóyínká’s Family Life (one page)
  10. The Carvings (two pages)
  11. Ṣóyínká’s Homes in Ìbàdàn (three pages)
  12. Laide’s Role (three pages)
• The Director
  1. A two-minute video introduction to the film by Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún
  2. Interview with the film director at the Travel Beyond Film Festival [February 8, 2025] (1.02.47)
• Graphics
  1. Film poster and behind-the-scenes photos.

All delivered electronically.

The advantage of the additional interviews — which are not available in any public screening of the film or in online streaming — is the context and background information they provide for all the themes explored in the film. They also represent a permanent record of prevailing thoughts and debates that marked the literary period covered in the film (Ìbàdàn in the 60s and 70s) and subsequent periods when Ṣóyínká was in Ifẹ̀ (1975-1985) which was not fully explored in Ebrohimie Road. Femi Osofisan, Remi Raji, Niyi Osundare, Femi Euba, and Dan Izevbaye are important scholars of note whose memory of the times and opinion on many of the issues of the times add a lot of depth for anyone interested in African literature.

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If you are a Nigerian corporate organisation interested in a screening at a private or public location in Nigeria, please reach out to us via publisher@olongoafrica.com.

Independent researchers, reviewers, or educational institutions (in Nigeria particularly) interested in a no-cost non-profit screening opportunity to showcase the film to students and others; and anyone interested in the film, interview, or transcripts for pure academic non-profit purposes should reach out to us at publisher@olongoafrica.com.

*The educational license returns go a long way to support the work of literature and documentation we do at OlongoAfrica.com