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We love how African stories are being told to the modern world. From Tim Crothers‘ Queen of Katwe to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun to Tracy Farren’s Whiplash to Uzodinma Iweala’s Beast of No Nation, African stories are becoming a more attractive archive for filmmakers seeking to tell powerful and relatable stories. We’ve got the scoop on a new Africa-To-The-World type feature film …

2D Animated Movie Adaption of Cyprian Ekwensi’s “The Passport of Mallam Ilia” is Almost Here | Watch how Everything Came Together! Read More »

The picture of Mallam Ilia in the train travelling far and wide in order that he might exact revenge on his sworn enemy, as depicted in the trailer of the animation movie, is the picture in my mind when I first read the book at the time, in JS1. Cyprian Ekwensi’s popular novel The Passport of …

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Anyone who knows the iconic Cyprian Ekwensi will be familiar with his work, The Passport of Mallam Ilia. The book centres on the chronicles the journey of a fiery young warrior, Ilia who spent the rest of his life seeking vengeance for the death of his wife, Zarah, in the hands of Mallam Usman. The story …

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