Nigerian Filmmaker Kunle Afolayan Thanks His Late Dad For Marrying Many Wives
Award-winning Nollywood director and actorKunle Afolayan has penned a tribute to his late father Adeyemi Josiah Akano Afolayan.
Kunle Afolayan is known for helming remarkable films likeThe Figurine: Araromire (2009),Phone Swap (2012),October 1 (2014), andThe CEO (2016), and is one of Nigeria’s most critically-acclaimed filmmakers.
The director shared a collage of himself and his father who died in 1996 on Monday, July 27, 2020, saying how he misses him and thanking him for marrying many wives as it led to him (Kunle Afolayan) being his son.
His words:
I miss you, Baba mi, but thank you for marrying many wives because I would not have been privileged to be called your Son.I know I was finer so… don’t rub it in.
ADEYEMI JOSIAH AKANO AFOLAYAN (1940-1996).”