OzikoroCyprian Ekwensi and the Cinema World: The Igbo Novelist as Actor, Scriptwriter, and Film Critic
Long before Nollywood’s floodlights and rolling cameras, there was a man whose stories flickered like film reels in the minds of his readers, Cyprian Odiatu Duaka Ekwensi, the Igbo novelist who blurred the lines between literature and cinema. Born in 1921 in Minna, Niger State, to Igbo parents from Nkwelle Ezunaka in Anambra, Ekwensi’s life…