• Privacy Policy
  • Terms
  • About us
  • Contact Us
  • Staff Email
Sunday, July 6, 2025
  • Login
TheMattersPress
  • Home
  • News
  • Features
  • Thematterspress
  • Multimedia
    • Audio
    • Photo
    • Video
  • About us
  • Contact Us
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Features
  • Thematterspress
  • Multimedia
    • Audio
    • Photo
    • Video
  • About us
  • Contact Us
No Result
View All Result
TheMattersPress
No Result
View All Result
Home News

Filmmaker Adejuiyigbe tasks writers on Africa

The Matters Press by The Matters Press
November 13, 2019
Reading Time: 2 mins read
0
Africa-Europe Alliance presents progress report

Africa

Africa

Adekunle ‘Nodash’ Adejuiyigbe, award-winning filmmaker, urges screenwriters to device better realities for Africa through their stories.

RELATED POSTS

Atiku’s mockery of Nigeria over Trump’s invitation to 5 African nation, a display of poor knowledge of global affairs

Nigeria’s new flood insurance policy laudable, needs quick application, says TMSG

Nigeria’s approval of dual NCE, B.Ed degrees in 15 colleges of education a good omen

Adejuiyigbe said this on his Instagram page @i_am_nodash in an open letter to screenwriters where he detailed lessons from the 2019 Carthage International Film Festival.

His award-winning film ‘The Delivery Boy’, an interesting love story that explores the back story of terrorists, represented Nigeria at the festival.

Adejuiyigbe wrote, “Dear fellow writers, you see those keypads, the ones on your computers and phones? They are actually not keypads, they are triggers on the strongest nuclear weapon of all, The weapon called “story”.

“With those keys we can liberate the continent, with them, we can also Hiroshima the hell out of ourselves. It’s a choice. Africa might have been invaded by guns but it was conquered by stories.

“Those stories became narratives and those narratives became filters through which we see ourselves and this distorted worldview is what we call reality.

“So if ‘reality’ is simply the handiwork of other writers, then our jobs as African writers is not to describe that reality, nope, our job is to engineer a better reality into existence.”

Adejuiyigbe noted that the writers might face challenges while trying to write better stories about Nigeria and Africa, however, he encouraged them to rise to the challenge.

He added that the process of aspirational writing was the difference between a writer and a journalist. According to him, it is a journalist’s job to assess and report Africa but it is a writer’s job to build it.

“Where are the resources to build with? Where do we draw inspiration from? I mean, we were punished for speaking our native languages in primary school weren’t we?

“How do we expect writers who were raised to think lowly of Africa to write stories that empower Africans?

“But this is the beauty of being an African writer in a time like this. For every page you write you have to go a mile within your own self.

“For every conflict your characters face, you face 20 within your own soul. So the African writer is essentially a character in a story that won’t end in his/her lifetime.

“It is a big responsibility because the story is the foundation of all creative projects. If the story has no magic, the best directors, actors and cameras cannot save it,” he said.

Tags: Africa
ShareTweetPin
The Matters Press

The Matters Press

Related Posts

Drop your frustration, let President Tinubu be, Group picks on Atiku
Economy/Technology

Atiku’s mockery of Nigeria over Trump’s invitation to 5 African nation, a display of poor knowledge of global affairs

July 5, 2025
Veritas Kapital’s total assets hit N21.4bn
Economy/Technology

Nigeria’s new flood insurance policy laudable, needs quick application, says TMSG

July 4, 2025
Salvaging basic education from ruins of Boko Haram war in Borno
Economy/Technology

Nigeria’s approval of dual NCE, B.Ed degrees in 15 colleges of education a good omen

July 3, 2025
Group hails Presidential Council initiative, welcomes President Tinubu’s N2tn stabilisation package
Economy/Technology

Nasarawa showcases efficient use of fuel subsidy savings, exposes futility of Tinubu’s opposition’s mischief – TDF

July 1, 2025
Property owners besiege FCT office to pay ground rent
Economy/Technology

Transformational in FCT in line with Tinubu’s Renewed Hope agenda

June 30, 2025
China’s agricultural wholesale products prices continue to drop
Agriculture

Ignore Atiku’s claim to dilute historic mechanised farming deal with Belarus

June 29, 2025
Next Post
Stable petrol supply excites Buhari

Nigeria moves against fake petroleum products

Corruption caused Nigeria’s poor resource management

Bonny Island wins a jetty

Recommended Stories

Strike puts Nigeria in darkness

NUEE urges minister to address problems in power sector

September 26, 2023
Nigeria gets AfDB’s $14m as member of ATI

AfDB, Microsoft in deal on digital training

December 4, 2019
Army sends more troops to repel insurgents

Army sends more troops to repel insurgents

December 5, 2018

Popular Stories

  • Rising prices of goods cause protests in Morocco

    Rising prices of goods cause protests in Morocco

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • NLNG not responsible for gas supply shortfall, price hike

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • NCC sets fresh operational fees, spectrum prices for telecom operators

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Hoarding causes hike in prices of grains

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Prices of Petrol, diesel increase in November

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
TheMattersPress

We bring you the best news update in Nigeria

LEARN MORE »

Recent Posts

  • Atiku’s mockery of Nigeria over Trump’s invitation to 5 African nation, a display of poor knowledge of global affairs
  • Nigeria’s new flood insurance policy laudable, needs quick application, says TMSG
  • Nigeria’s approval of dual NCE, B.Ed degrees in 15 colleges of education a good omen

Categories

  • Agriculture
  • Economy/Technology
  • Energy
  • Entertainment/sports
  • Features
  • Foreign
  • Multimedia
  • Natural Resources
  • News
  • Oil and Gas
  • Photo
  • Politics
  • Security
  • Thematterspress
  • Uncategorized
  • Video

© 2025 Domo Tech World - Powered by Thematterspress.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Features
  • Thematterspress
  • Multimedia
    • Audio
    • Photo
    • Video
  • About us
  • Contact Us

© 2025 Domo Tech World - Powered by Thematterspress.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
Call Us