I have always loved storytelling; I love to read and that naturally evolved into writing. Growing up, while doing a chorus,
there is always a book beside me; my mum will tell you that I put monies together just to buy books. I studied computer science and in 2006, I served at a polytechnic in Yobe and I had a lot of time in my hands. With my faint Internet connection and laptop, I did a lot of writing. Afterwards, I went into music. Not until 2010, I decided to write my first book- a children’s book. So, I usually advise writers to ensure their first book is short so they can achieve completion.
I have built other writing successes from that; I have experimented different other things from thriller in Golden Sands to fantasies in Guardians of The Seal. With my most recent book, Afonja The Rise, which is a historical fiction, it has been critically and commercially successful. It was the festival book at the Lagos Arts and Festival on 2019 and other festivals.If you think about it, it is storytelling; the form may be different, but the substance is the same.
It is a story of three girls who were finding husbands and metamorphosed into finding happiness. As they went through the experience of finding a husband, they realised there was something deeper which was happiness. We have a lovely powerful cast, which include Adeola Oye, Kehinde Bankole, Tope Tedela and Tina Mba, with Femi Ogunsanwo as director. We started work on it late last year, and we finished shoot in January. We are currently in postproduction; it took us a year to get this done.
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