Taiwo Ajai-Lycett
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Taiwo Ajai-Lycett.
Born: February 3, 1941
Place of Birth: Lagos, Nigeria
Known For
The Black Book
After his son is wrongly accused of kidnapping, a deacon who has just lost his wife takes matters into his own hands and fights a crooked police gang to clear him.
Elesin Oba: The King's Horseman
Inspired by true life events, in the Oyo Empire in the 1940's, Elesin Oba, the king's chief horseman, succumbs to the lure of beauty and sexual desire on the very evening he is set to die in order to fulfil his lifelong debt of ritual suicide to accompany the dead Alaafin to the realm of the ancestors, he derails from a very important generational and spiritual transaction. This sets in motion a series of catastrophic consequences, in a spell-binding film of emotions, humour, and tragic role reversals that puts ancient beliefs and customs on trial in an ever increasingly post-modern and Western world.
Oloibiri
This action thriller narrates the tale of Gunpowder and Timipre, two natives of Oloibiri, the town where oil was first discovered in commercial quantity in Nigeria. Gunpowder engages in violent struggle in protest to the squalid living conditions in his community despite their oil wealth; accusing Timipre’s generation of doing nothing whilst their land was exploited and plundered.
Dazzling Mirage
An adaptation of Yinka Egbokhare's novel. The story of a young sickle-cell patient and the various social and emotional challenges she's faced with.
Soap Opera in Stockwell
A baby is snatched from outside a launderette. The manageress and customers try to work out who was responsible. Part of the Black and Blue series of TV plays.
Filmography
as Editor
as Madam Taiwo
as Ibiere
as Sanya's Mum
as Bolaji