Ade Bantu

Ade Bantu

Biography

Ade Bantu is co-founder of the anti-racist music initiative ‘Brothers Keepers’ and the subject of Sven Halfar’s documentary film YES I AM!. As one of the best known musicians in Cologne’s African communities, he collaborated with FilmInitiativ to organise a week of solidarity in 1996, in memory of writer Ken Saro-Wiwa who was murdered by the Nigerian military regime. At the Out of Europe X festival in 2008, he contributed to a brilliant ‘Felabration’ concert as a tribute to legendary Nigerian musician Fela Kuti. He has been mainly based in Lagos for the last decade, which he discusses in his 2011 documentary MY MUSIC, MY HOOD. He and his band BANTU have produced several successful CDs, as well as re-recording songs with the legendary old masters of Nigerian music, who are portrayed in the film ELDER’S CORNER.

Filmography

ELDER’S CORNER (2020): Direction