Taiwo Ajai-Lycett

Taiwo Ajai-Lycett

Born: February 3, 1941
in Lagos, Nigeria

Movies for Taiwo Ajai-Lycett...

Meeting Funmi's Parents
Title: Meeting Funmi's Parents
Released: January 26, 2024
Type: Movie
A romantic comedy set in Nigeria and United States about an interracial romance that hits rock-bottom when a just engaged Nigerian Girl returns home with her white fiancee. Her father, being a cultured Yoruba man, does not want an oyibo son-in-law. He does everything he can to break off their engagement.
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The Black Book
Title: The Black Book
Character: Editor
Released: September 22, 2023
Type: Movie
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.
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Elesin Oba: The King's Horseman
Title: Elesin Oba: The King's Horseman
Character: Madam Taiwo
Released: September 10, 2022
Type: Movie
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.
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Oloibiri
Title: Oloibiri
Character: Ibiere
Released: May 19, 2015
Type: Movie
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.
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Dazzling Mirage
Title: Dazzling Mirage
Character: Sanya's Mum
Released: July 11, 2014
Type: Movie
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.
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Soap Opera in Stockwell
Title: Soap Opera in Stockwell
Character: Bolaji
Released: September 11, 1973
Type: Movie
A baby is snatched from outside a launderette. The manageress and customers try to work out who was responsible.