Veteran filmmaker, Wale Fanu has passed on at the age of 72. The death of the filmmaker was announced by his associate, Jide Bisayo, on Sunday June 12th.
Late Fanu who lived with sickle cell, was the managing director of one of the foremost production houses in Nollywood, Cinekraft.
Announcing the death of the veteran filmmaker, Bisayo noted that Cinekraft contributed to the birth of Nollywood.
Busayo wrote, “In the beginning while Nollywood was still an embryo, there was CINEKRAFT. Cinekraft in no small way contributed to the birthing of the nascent industry.
Behind Cinekraft administration and production management was one indefatigable, never tiring creative soul, my boss, Wale Fanu. Uncle Wales (as I like calling you), rest in the bosom of the Lord. A titan has gone home indeed!”
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Though Busayo didn’t state the time or cause of death, Fanu was known as a sickle cell survivor.
In an interview with The PUNCH in 2018, Fanu noted that the condition robbed him of certain experiences as a child.
“It got so bad that my mother thought I was never going to get married. She tried to hide the truth of my condition from people. But to the glory of God, today I am married and have four children,” he had said.
Below are five things you should know about Late Wale Fanu
1. Born 21 April 1950, doctors said he would not live to see his 20th birthday
2. After an SCD crisis left him in coma for days in Lagos, his anxious father pressurized him to keep at home. It was Goodbye to his Electrical Engineering studies at the Technical College (now The Polytechnic), Ibadan
3. Fanu developed painful SCD complication known as AVASCULAR NECROSIS in his early 20s. He held on for close to 50 years without surgery.
4. In his late 50s, he married a young woman whose genotype is AS. When she became pregnant, Fanu ‘was petrified’ about bequeathing sickle cell anaemia to an innocent child.
5. Both his parents passed away shortly after their 70th birthdays. ‘
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