Kongi's Harvest (film)

Kongi's Harvest
Directed byOssie Davis
Written byWole Soyinka
Produced byFrancis Oladele
Starring
CinematographyÅke Dahlqvist
Edited byJerry Gränsman
Music byChris McGregor
Production
companies
  • Calpenny Nigeria Ltd
  • Herald Productions
  • Omega Films
Release dates
Running time
85 minutes
CountryNigeria
LanguageEnglish

Kongi's Harvest is a 1970s Nigerian drama film directed by Ossie Davis. The film was adapted from a screenplay by Wole Soyinka adapted from his 1965 play of the same name. Soyinka, a Nigerian playwright, poet, and the first African to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, also starred in the leading role as the dictator of an African nation.

The film was produced by Francis Oladele's Calpenny Nigeria Films. The story revolved around the degeneration of personal rule in independent Africa and satirizes the resulting tyranny in terms of the confrontation between a populist politician and a traditional ruler. It is said that the film reflected the rising trend of dictatorships and tyrannical rule in Africa in the 1970s.