Kunle bamtefa biography samples
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Nigeria, drama, 2009, 120min. Dir: Kunle Afolayan. Western Japan Premiere!
Synopsis & UPAF Memo:
The Figurine is a story of two friends and a girl. All down on their luck, their lives change when one of them discovers ‘Araromire’ a mysterious figurine in an abandoned shrine which, according to legend bestows seven years of good luck. But no one told them about the next seven years…
Have you heard of Nollywood? Cinema in Nigeria has grown since the 1990s and become an employment-producing industry. The Figurine occupies a legendary space among Nollywood fans. It’s the first film Nigerians are truly proud of as their own that is as good as any other great cinema of the world. We cannot but totally agree. This quality psycho-thriller is cleverly made full of twists and turns till the very end, while incorporating the local legend and oral storytelling tradition.
Celebrated African cinema auteurs existed since the continent’s independence in the 60s (i.e. Ousmane Sembène), but they were made with European capital and only distributed in the West. Nollywood began in the late 90s with a cheap VHS camera in an effort to start projecting their own images for fellow Nigerians who kept consuming Hollywood, Bollywood, and Kung Fu films. Nigeria’s averag
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"Bitter Sweet": The Animal Called Obasonjo. By Remi Obasonjo.
Bitter-Sweet: My life with Obasanjo: How he battered, drove Stella out
Written by Oluremi Obasanjo ( Oluremi is wife of Nigeria's former President. General Olusegun Obasonjo who is now the UN appointed envoy on the Congo Crisis)
Yesterday...
'He told me to wait for him. When he emerged, he was in shorts and a short sleeve shirt. He slapped me twice and ran after me as I fled down the stairs'
As we were preparing for bed, I heard a knock on the door. I queried to know who was knocking. A female voice replied that she was from the National Security Organisation. I told her I had no business with that organisation and she should leave me alone to sleep. Playing the gender card, she pleaded that I should give her a hearing as she knew how I felt.
I opened the door and she spoke politely to me that she had come to arrange a more commodious accommodation for us. We returned to Lagos next day. The NSO lady, Mrs. Eso, became a good friend. From that night, Obasanjo reached an agreement with me, which allowed me to have better access to the children. He allowed all of us to take annual vacations, albeit, to African countries with Mr. Agwam accompanying us.
The children and I visited Cairo
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