Kunle Afolayan Tackles Sexual Harassment In His Next Movie

Award-winningNollywooddirector and actorKunle Afolayanhas chosen to address the issue of sexual harassment in his upcoming movie titledCitation.

Citationwill be Afolayan’s seventh feature film and will be set in contemporary university campuses.

Afolayan said theBBC talking about the subject now was not a coincidence as he had been working on the project for almost two years.

I don't think it is a coincidence that the BBC News, BBC Africa is just talking about a subject matter we have been working on as a film project for almost two years. It’s a University drama surrounding a female postgraduate student who has to find a way of dealing with the awkward situation of sexual harassment from a popular male lecturer.Kunle Afolayan - pulse.ng

The filmmaker revealed thatCitationwill be shot inNigeria,Senegal, andCape Verde. It is written byTunde Babalola, with Afolayan as director and producer.

The cast for the upcoming movie is yet to be revealed but principal photography will begin in 2020.