The Man Died - Centerpiece: African Film Festival Atlanta (AFFATL)

The African Film Festival Atlanta, now in is 4th year has partnered with the Nollywood Travel Film Festival to bring the best of Nollywood to diverse audiences.

Nigeria| 2 hours 14 minutes 26 secconds

Based on the harrowing Pr*son memoir by Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, "The Man Died" is a powerful tale of resistance, courage, and the unyielding human spirit.

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Awam Amkpa is a professor of drama, film and social and cultural analysis at New York University in New York and Abu Dhabi. Actor, playwright, director of stage plays, films and curator of visual arts, Awam Amkpa is a Nigerian-American. Awam Amkpa is the author of Theatre and Postcolonial Desires (Routledge, 2003). He is director of film documentaries and curator of photographic exhibitions and film festivals. Amkpa has written several articles on representations in Africa and its diasporas, representations, and modernisms in theater, postcolonial theater, and Black Atlantic films.

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