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2025
Lisabi: A Legend Is Born is a 2025 Nigerian historical drama film directed by Niyi Akinmolayan and co-written by Yinka Olaoye and Akinmolayan. It serves as the second installment in a two-part adaptation of the life and legacy of Lisabi, a Yoruba hero and freedom fighter from the 18th century.
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Here we're again with the second and last part of Lisabi. Remember in the first part we discussed how Lisabi's friend died. What transpired, how much he loved him, and how he sought to take revenge on the Oyo empire.
Lisabi: A Legend Is Born
I love this part so much especially because it opens up to the origin of Lisabi himself, how he came to be, the mystery surrounding him, how his mother died protecting him and the last prayer she said to him back then before she gave up the ghost and how that it was that prayer that connected him(Lisabi) to some spiritual forces that now guide and protect him.
Also, it went on about the fight between the the Oyo empire and the Egba's. How they didn't just fight with swords and hands, but made use of charms and spiritual powers too. And at last, the Egba won the war with the help of Lisabi.
But then, things fell apart after they won the war. People who were close to Lisabi began to get jealous; they felt he was the only one taking all the glory. They even went ahead to kill someone who's very close to him. Later they nominated him and asked him to be the warlord, but he turned it down and made his way, or let's say, he disappeared into the spiritual realms. In short, we can't say that Lisabi died at the end; they deliberately left his end as a mysterious one, meaning he's a legend.
I as well love how this second part has its own title, "A legend is born," and it is a continuation of the first, "The uprising." And I can say that I really love the continuation, and as expected people for jealous of him, which led to betrayal, chaos and all which made him eventually disappeared, especially when the most closest person to him was killed.
Not as if this particular one didn't have their offs; of course they did, but I love how they did something that isn't in the first, and that is them touching on the person of Lisabi, his birth, and all of that. Because in the first part I was wondering how a farmer would be this powerful to the extent of communicating with spiritual beings and forces.
Lateef Adedimeji gave his best to this movie. It made me respect him more as an actor, I can now see beyond most of his crying crying acts he often does in movies. This movie made us see how good, versatile and great of an actor that he is. Yeah, and about his friends getting jealous of him, I would say he contributed to it too. You know, when the praises and all were much, he as well began to treat others somehow, so they felt somehow about it too.
I also love how that after the war and everything, those who seek his downfall and all were people closest to him. The people who fought side by side with him to win the war against the Oyo Empire became the same people who resented him when he became the most glorified.
What I didn't like though was how that the jealousy part wasn't really built, we actually need to see some of it, and how it build up to get to that extent, that way we would understand very well why they did what they did. I love that the ending has him deciding to disappear, but also, that was too quick; after all of those things he had gone through and all, he disappeared abruptly.
But the visuals, costumes, location and all his very good.
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Rating: 80/100
After the great win against Sangodeyi, killing him and taking off his head from part 1 of Lisabi, Lisabi returned home with villagers celebrating and changing his praises. It was a great victory to them all but then, the war is not over yet as Lisabi's men ambushed more Oyo tribute collectors and sent Sangodeyi's head to the palace as a warning to the king referred to as The Alaafin.
With no doubt, the Alaafin was enraged and he ordered his top general, Aronimoja which was played by Deyemi Okanlawon, to retaliate the death of his 600 men for 6,000men of the Egba people so the war continues. You know, no mighty man will want to be seen as been weak or overcome by less-powered men because it makes them feel ridiculed.
Seeing that another huge war awaits the Egba land, Lisabi prepares to empower his men in preparation for the forthcoming war which made his wife, Ikeola, ask him the great question of who he is.
The revelation of who Lisabi is made me understand and affirm that to every great person in life, there has been a bittered, challenging, questioning past which has cost them a lot that no ordinary person without vision can overcome.
Lisabi was actually raised by 4 different spirits called Akilapa, Eye, Olo Olori Ilari and Jogbo and these are the same ones he called upon to empower his men with more powers to face the Oyo men.
The opposition of the idea to fight back from the elders of the land definitely shows that not everyone will support our vision, not even those we focused on to get a good support from. I love how Ikeola went to the witches to seek for support which helped at the die-minute when the battle was about to overcome them and it shows how a man can always be successful as long as he has a supporting wife.
And finally, the part I found so bittered to talk about which is a twist to the movie was seeing the same people who agreed to go on a journey of freedom with a leader, ending up to envy the leader because he alone or mostly was being praised, hailed and acknowledged so they decidedd to murder his wife. Like the same men whom he trusted and supported one another on the same goal.
I think that's one of the greatest betrayals one could get which really got to him. So, what will Lisabi do in this situation? Stay with these murderers because it's his land or form an alliance with the enemy to destroy his betrayals.
Lisabi A Legend is Born is a movie of many lessons and even though there were some errors I would talk about, it's still worth watching.
My first criticism about the movie is the fact that some unnecessary changes were made which isn't okay enough because it's not only a movie but one that tells a history so there must be a concrete, precise and factual and not just all about fictional scenes.
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Rating: 85/100
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image Nah Nollywood people have come again, like they did it again but this time around it was from sweetness to sour, I actually thought I will enjoy the second part just like the first but all the anticipation just gone for nothing. The Yoruba-Egba movie titled Lisabi was one of the top movie that took the net last year, it brought to light the story of Lisabi Agbongbo Akala one of the Egba great warrior that play…More
