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The 1974 blaxploitation film Abby features Eshu, but mostly as a deranged and ruthless sex deity that possesses a young woman and causes her to sexually assault and brutally murder various men in the process. Eshu appears as the main antagonist of the film Scooby-Doo! Ghastly Goals.
Elesin Oba, The King's Horseman is a 2022 Yoruba-language Nigerian historical drama film directed by Biyi Bandele and distributed by Netflix, based on Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman, a stage play he wrote while in Cambridge, where he was a fellow student at Churchill College during his political exile from Nigeria, [1] and it is based on a real incident that took place in ...
Pages in category "Yoruba-language films" The following 61 pages are in this category, out of 61 total. ... 0–9. 13 Letters (film) A. Adire (film) Agogo Eewo;
The film's use of the Yoruba religion distinguishes it from The Exorcist. In the story, Abby is apparently possessed by Eshu , a West African orisha of chaos and whirlwinds. He is also a trickster and the guardian of roads, particularly crossroads.
The film explores the themes of the intersection between African belief in supernatural forces, modernity and sexual politics. [2] Thunderbolt: Magun was made with a DV calm and the budget for the film was about $50,000. [1] It was released on VHS. [4] It was listed as one of the 10 best selling Yoruba movies. [5]
Koseegbe was Tunde Kelani's third film and his first work with Akinwunmi Isola. It started out as a stage play of the same name by Isola who was unable to write the script for film, so Kelani gave him the script for Driving Miss Daisy to use as a sample. [5] It was released on VHS in 1995. [6] It was listed as one of the 10 best selling Yoruba ...
The title of the series, iwájú, roughly translates to 'the future' in the Yoruba language (literally 'front-facing'). The series stars Simisola Gbadamosi, Dayo Okeniyi, Femi Branch, Siji Soetan, and Weruche Opia. Originally planning a series of shorts, Walt Disney Animation Studios and Kugali Media were developing the long-form series for ...
The signifying monkey is a character of African-American folklore that derives from the trickster figure of Yoruba mythology, Esu Elegbara.This character was transported with Africans to the Americas under the names of Exu, Echu-Elegua, Papa Legba, and Papa Le Bas.