Media Mogul, Mo Abudu has partnered with streaming giant, Netflix to create adaptations of Nigerian literary works into films and series. Netflix revealed its latest move to create more Nigerian content with its latest commissioning of on-screen adaptations of two literary classics.
According to a Twitter announcement by Netflix, EbonyLife films will create a series based on Lola Shoneyin’s bestselling novel ‘The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives’ as well as a film adaptation of Wole Soyinka’s 1986 classic play ‘Death And The King’s Horseman’
?We’ve got MAJOR news for you today! Netflix has partnered with acclaimed producer @MoAbudu to bring you two of Nigeria’s most beloved literary classics to screens around the world! ?? pic.twitter.com/3zAE4zAndH
— Netflix Nigeria (@NetflixNaija) June 12, 2020
Reacting to the newly commissioned adaptations, Wole Soyinka shared: “In a creative industry which, even in pioneering countries, is so male dominated, it is always a delight to see robust challenges offered by the female gender, and of attestable quality.
“Mo Abudu’s incursion into this arena as film and television producer has been especially stimulating. It becomes part of one’s sense of achievement, if one has contributed, however minutely, to the creation of an enabling environment.”
The production details are yet to revealed, however reports show that one of Mo Abudu’s commissioned films will premiere on Netflix this year and Professor Soyinka’s play adaptation will be among the newly-licensed films.