Koseegbe
{{Use Nigerian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox film
| image = Koseegbe poster.jpeg
| director = Tunde Kelani
| writer = Akinwunmi Isola
| screenplay = Akinwunmi Isola
| based_on = A play by Akinwunmi Isola
| producer = Tunde Kelani
| starring = Kola Oyewo
Wole Ameleo
Jide Kosokoo
Toyin A Babatope
| editing = Idowu Nubi
| studio = Mainframe Films and Television Productions
| distributor = Alasco Video Film Production
Blessed J.O. Adeoye
Alelele Bros. & Co
| released = {{Film date|1995}}
| runtime = 102 minutes
| country = Nigeria
| language = Yoruba Language
}}
Kòseégbé (English: Immovable) is a 1995 Yoruba drama film directed by Tunde Kelani based on a stage play of the same name by Akinwunmi Isola. The cast consisted of actors from the Obafemi Awolowo University theatre.{{Cite book|last=Ogunleye|first=Foluke|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zRFT6I6vM_sC&dq=Koseegbe&pg=PA146|title=African Video Film Today|date=2003|publisher=Integritas Services|isbn=978-0-7978-2931-2|pages=146|language=en}} It was released through Mainframe Films and Television Productions.{{Cite web|last=Izuzu|first=Chibumga|date=2017-03-09|title=Who remembers Tunde Kelani's 1995 movie "Koseegbe?"|url=https://www.pulse.ng/entertainment/movies/throwbackthursday-who-remembers-tunde-kelanis-1995-movie-koseegbe/tw09zj4|access-date=2021-08-20|website=Pulse Nigeria|language=en}}
Plot
Koseegbe tells the story of a morally upright customs officer who replaces a senior official who was dismissed on account of corruption. At his new post, he attempts to sanitize the system as he gets pushed back from the equally corrupt junior officers. In order to orchestrate his dismissal, the junior officers frame him for illicit behaviour. He is however able to secure their confession and absolve himself.{{Cite book|last=Ogundipe|first=Ayodele|url=https://www.codesria.org/IMG/pdf/GA_Chapter-6_ogundipe.pdf|title=Gender and Culture in Indigenous Films in Nigeria|year=2004|pages=93–94|access-date=2021-07-07|archive-date=2022-03-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305174322/https://codesria.org/IMG/pdf/GA_Chapter-6_ogundipe.pdf|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|last=Afolabi|first=Omoniyi|date=2011|title=Yoruba Films By Tunde Kelani: Primary Cultural And Linguistic Data Collection|url=https://www.coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/sites/coerll.utexas.edu.coerll/files/nollywood-kelani-film-selections.pdf|access-date=2021-08-20|archive-date=2021-10-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211014134835/https://www.coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/sites/coerll.utexas.edu.coerll/files/nollywood-kelani-film-selections.pdf|url-status=dead}}
Cast
- Kola Oyewo as Mako
- Wole Amele as Maliki
- Jide Kosoko as Arowolo
- Toyin A Babatope as Suwebatu
- Yetunde Ogunsola as Dola
- Joke Muyiwa as Mako's Wife
- Yemi Sodimu as Salu
- Laide Adewale as Gbelegbo
- Gboyega Ajayi as Tola
- Jimoh Fakoyejo as Mamu
- Faith Eboigbe as Salu's Wife
- Taiye Adegboyega as Gbelegbo's Wife
- Feso Oyewole as Talabi
- Peter Fatomilola as Police Chief
- Deola Yusuff-Badmus as Iyawo Tola
- Olokun Samson as Tanko
- Tayo Oyewusi as Dandogo
- Feso Oyewole as Talabi
Production
Koseegbe was Tunde Kelani's third film and his first work with Akinwunmi Isola. It started out as a stage play of the same name by Isola who was unable to write the script for film, so Kelani gave him the script for Driving Miss Daisy to use as a sample.{{Cite book|last=Haynes|first=Jonathan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cHUpDQAAQBAJ&dq=Koseegbe&pg=PA131|title=Nollywood: The Creation of Nigerian Film Genres|date=2016-10-04|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-38795-6|pages=131|language=en}} It was released on VHS in 1995.{{Citation|last1=Oyewo|first1=Kola|title=Kòṣeégbé|date=1995|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39878333|place=Lagos [Nigeria|publisher=Mainframe : Distributors Alasco Video Film Production, Blessed J.O. Adeoye, Alelele Bros. & Co.|oclc=39878333|access-date=2021-08-20|last2=Babatope|first2=Toyin A|last3=Amele|first3=Wole|last4=Kosoko|first4=Jide|last5=Ogunmola|first5=Peju|last6=Shodimu|first6=Yemi|last7=Ojeyemi|first7=Tunji|last8=Eboigbe|first8=Faith|last9=Ogunsola|first9=Yetunde}}
References
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Category:Yoruba-language films