page_title: Biyi Bandele
section_title: Novelist
hierarchical_section_title: Biyi Bandele / Novelist
caption_attribution_description: English: Biyi Bandele at the 2014 Zanzibar International Film Festival.
context_page_description: Biyi Bandele is a Nigerian novelist, playwright and filmmaker. Bandele is a UK-based Nigerian writer for fiction, theatre, journalism, television, film and radio. He moved to London in 1990.
context_section_description: Biyi Bandele's novels, which include The Man Who Came in from the Back of Beyond (1991) and The Street (1999), have been described as "rewarding reading, capable of wild surrealism and wit as well as political engagement." His 2007 novel, Burma Boy, reviewed in The Independent by Tony Gould, was called "a fine achievement" and lauded for providing a voice for previously unheard Africans.
caption: Biyi Bandele at the 2014 Zanzibar International Film Festival.
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