Free Screening - Cascade Festival of African Films - The Man Died

Cascade Festival of African Films

Free Film Festival, In celebration of Black History Month at Portland Community College Moriarty Arts and Humanities Building, Room 104 @ Friday, February 27, 2026 | 7:00pm

https://www.africanfilmfestival.org/2026/festival/films/the-man-died/

The Man Died

Directed by Awa Ampka

Nigeria 2024, 105 min

Drawing from Wole Soyinka’s prison memoir, this film chronicles the Nobel laureate’s imprisonment and unyielding resistance under Nigeria’s military regime. Isolated yet unbroken, he resists silence through imagination and moral conviction. A powerful testament to artistic freedom, intellectual defiance, and the cost of speaking truth to power. This film is a gripping portrait of endurance amid political oppression.