Kongi's Harvest

Kongi's Harvest (1970)

An African dictator (Wole Soyinka) needs to convince the former king (Rashidi Onikoyi) to legitimize his reign by offering him the ceremonial yam at the upcoming harvest festival.

Date of release
1970-05-01
TMDB
7.5 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 19m
Genres
Drama
Director
Ossie Davis

Casting

Interesting facts

Kongi's Harvest is a 1970s Nigerian drama film directed by Ossie Davis. The film was adapted from a screenplay by Wole Soyinka adapted from his 1965 play of the same name. Soyinka, a Nigerian playwright, poet, and the first African to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, also starred in the leading role as the dictator of an African nation.

Production

The film was shot in Nigeria. It was the first production by a Nigerian indigenous company, and its aim was to change perceptions about the country and the African continent.

The film is based on a play created by Wole Soyinka, who also appears in the film as Kongi. In an advertisement that appeared at the time of the film in The New York Times, Soyinka dissociated himself from the film and denounced the major changes that had been made to his screenplay.

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