Media services provider, Netflix, has announced that media mogul, Mo Abudu, will produce a film adaptation of the play, Death and the King’s Horseman by Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka.
She will also produce a series adaptation of the play, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives, by Lola Shoneyin.
The company made this known on Twitter on Friday.
“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. A series-adaptation of @LolaShoneyin’sThe Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives and a film-adaptation of Prof. Wole Soyinka’s Death And The King’s Horseman,” the tweets read.
The 55-year-old and her television station, Ebony Life TV, will also produce two new Nigerian orginal films and a series for the streaming site.
Death and the King’s horseman is based on a real-life story of a Yoruba king who was prevented from committing ritual suicide by the British colonial authorities.
While Lola Shoneyin’s fiction debut The Secret Lives of Babi Segi’s Wives is described as a perceptive, entertaining, and eye-opening novel of polygamy in modern-day Nigeria.
