From ‘Araromire’ to ‘My Father’s Shadow’: A 21st Century Retrospective Peeling The Layers of Nigerian Cinema at Int’l Festivals - What Kept Me Up

From ‘Araromire’ to ‘My Father’s Shadow’: A 21st Century Retrospective Peeling The Layers of Nigerian Cinema at Int’l Festivals - What Kept Me Up

New Feature: Listen to Articles On the Go!Our new AI-generated audio feature lets you just press play and enjoy the long reads. Listen or download here. The selection of My Father’s Shadow at Cannes 2025 is more than an isolated success. It has been a gradual buildup of a wave in how Nigerian stories are told, where they are told, and who gets to tell them. In 2013, Tambay Obenson of Akoroko observed that Kunle Afolayan was “one of a handful of …