Kongi's Harvest (film)
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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.[1][2] 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.[3][4]
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Directed by | Ossie Davis |
Written by | Wole Soyinka |
Produced by | Francis Oladele |
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Cinematography | Åke Dahlqvist |
Edited by | Jerry Gränsman |
Music by | Chris McGregor |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
Country | Nigeria |
Language | English |
The film was produced by Francis Oladele's Calpenny Nigeria Films. The story revolved around the degeneration of personal rule in independent Africa and satirizes the resulting tyranny in terms of the confrontation between a populist politician and a traditional ruler. It is said that the film reflected the rising trend of dictatorships and tyrannical rule in Africa in the 1970s.[5]