Biyi Bandele reportedly was married but details of their marriage are obscure to the public.
However, the couple has a daughter named Temi Bandele.
Biyi Bandele was a Nigerian novelist, playwright and filmmaker.
Bandele was born to Yoruba parents in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, Nigeria, in 1967. His father Solomon Bandele-Thomas was a veteran of the Burma Campaign in World War II, while Nigeria was still part of the British Empire.
At age 14, Bandele won a short-story competition.
In 1987, Bandele studied drama at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, having already begun work on his first novel. He won the International Student Playscript competition of 1989 with an unpublished play, Rain, before claiming the 1990 British Council Lagos Award for a collection of poems.
Bandele’s writing encompassed fiction, theatre, journalism, television, film and radio.
He worked with the Royal Court Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, as well as writing radio dramas and screenplays for television.
His works include Half of a Yellow Sun, Fifty, Blood Sisters, Shuga, The Street, Burma Boy, FELA –Father of Afrobeat, and many more.
Bandele died in Lagos on August 7, 2022, at the age of 54.