Kunle Afolayan Steps Up Netflix Deal with 3 New Movies
It’s been five years since Netflix launched in Nigeria. Since then, it has collaborated with a wide variety of Nollywood film makers, and consistently built strong relationships with local creators like Kunle Afolayan.
It’s been incredibly rewarding to see Netflix bring Afolayan’s classics like The CEO, October 1, The Figurine and, most recently, Citation, to viewers around the world and shine a light on Nigerian culture, history, fashion, music, food and languages through Kunle Afolayan films.
Netflix’s Director of Content in Africa, Ben Amadasun said Netflix is excited to expand on that through a new partnership with Kunle Afolayan to produce and premiere three new diverse films: a historical drama, a folklore fantasy and a character drama.
All three will be set in Nigeria, the first of which will be an adaptation of Nigerian-American novelist, short-story writer, playwright and screenwriter, Seffi Atta’s third novel, Swallow about a naive secretary whom, after a series of career woes, considers her roommate’s offer to work as a drug mule in mid-1980s Lagos.
The stories are diverse in genre, riveting in storyline and more importantly uniquely Naija! But no one does these projects justice quite like Kunle.
In a remark, Kunle Afolayan, Nigeria’s leading director and producer stated that “There’s never been a greater time for us, where you have so many Nigerian stories being shown to the whole world!”
