"Biyi was a unique, all-responsive talent . . . The more he achieved, the further he aimed" — Wole Soyinka
"I always had huge respect for [Biyi's] prolific, super-talented and fearless creativity" — Bernardine Evaristo
"Passionately committed to every venture, Biyi displayed great urgency in all his productivity. He was a beguiling mix of daring and reticence, self-confidence and humility, with bravely ambitious dreams" — Margaret Busby, Guardian (UK)
"[Biyi Bándélé's novels] are rewarding reading, capable of wild surrealism and wit, as well as political engagement, as is all his writing" — Independent (UK)
"Biyi Bandele was a titan, who did the heavy lifting and laid the foundations many British Nigerian writers & theatre makers walk on" — Inua Ellams
"Bandele, who is without doubt one of Africa's finest creative minds, built an extensive career across various creative spaces, achieving success in literature and film" — Brittle Paper
"Just when you think you know all the African slave heroes–those superhumans who were abducted and sold, only to rise above their condition and give back to the societies that sold or enslaved them–you meet Ajayi Crowther. Yoruba Boy Running, Biyi Bandele’s final gift to world literature, is as important and as riveting as it is generous, raising Ajayi Crowther to a place beside Olaudah Equiano , Frederick Douglass and Phillis Wheatley" — Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi