The stew tastes sweeter at home!! 🇳🇬
thank you to everyone who has watched and supported our movie and to the AMVCA @africamagic for these important honors.
Congratulations to the cast and crew of My Fathers Shadow on the 5 awards we took home yesterday
Special shoutout to @nicoleasinugo who won the award for writing in 2020 & actually convinced me I could write, she held my hand in those early times. Literally following your footsteps mate
I’m gassed I met Kanayo O Kanayo
All that’s left is for Arsenal to do the double and my 2026 will be forever goated!!
👕: @i.n.official x @ayanariviere x @ifeanyinwune
‘Lullaby’ by @ekene_os is out today.
Excited to introduce a truly special talent….one who has been quietly honing his craft and is now ready to share his gift with the world.
Proud of the work you’ve put in @ekene_os
This is just the start…Can’t wait to for everyone to hear your music and your story ✨
Shout out to the team at @aplacecalledmars for the energy and intention behind bringing this to life….with @shopsie.jpeg at the center of it
🎥 @roj.archives@cranberry.stain
‘Love Over Everything’ March 26. 🇯🇲 Jamaica always feels like home
Big love to @ayanariviere@ukkuanna & @iamdonisha for the part they played in making it such a memorable trip
Africa Unite is an active call to rebuild the relationship between Africa and her diaspora through connecting our stories across borders.
The Bob Marley Museum Independent Film Series is excited to host the JAMAICAN PREMIERE of ‘My Father’s Shadow’, by award winning Nigerian filmmakers and brother duo Writer & Producer Wale Davies and Director Akinola Davies Jr.
The story follows two young brothers as they navigate Lagos with their estranged father, experiencing both the city’s vastness and their father’s personal struggles, while political unrest threatens their journey home.
The film explores fatherhood, identity, political tension, and memory within a pivotal moment in Nigerian history.
Join us as we celebrate film, culture and shared identity from the lens of the African diaspora.
Saturday March 7th, 2026
Bob Marley Museum Theatre
Gates open 6pmFilm screens 7pm
Panel with Q&A featuring filmmakers after the film.
Moderator: @thebecx
Speakers: @akinoladaviesjr@kingxdavies@iamdonisha
Limited seating.
RSVP: [email protected]
Contribution: $1500
Proceeds will support the active establishment of the Petersfield ComeUnity Resilience Hub & Transitional Shelter project being led by @humanityovavanity.to_ (HOV).
Curated by @humanityovavanity.to@dsejamaica@ukkuanna
#Fatherhood #Nationhood #Family #AfricanDiaspora #OneLove
I’m truly grateful (and slightly overwhelmed) by the amount of kind words, posts and supportive messages over the past couple days and having taken a couple days to try and be present and process. I just want to say thank you!
I look at where we are on this weird, wonderful, sometimes costly, sometimes crazy journey and I can feel the fingerprints of so many hands on this milestone….we did not arrive at this moment alone.
One generation back, we could not have dreamed this freely. Two generations back, perhaps not at all. For me, seeing Lagos Nigeria on the screen in a cinema in London was already the win. Something I would not have thought possible in all the years I lived in the UK.
What we are living in now was paid for….in code-switching, in quiet resilience, in subtle sacrifices, in bricks slowly chipped away by those who refused to stop pushing. This achievement belongs to everyone that came before…the voices who entertained and healed while carrying something heavier beneath the surface, it belongs to the friends who stood beside us when the dream felt irrational and family who absorbed our absence.
Our cast and crew…the collaborators whose ideas, costumes, set designs and faith built this world with us. The calls, the prayers, the reposts, the quiet encouragement. This weekend didn’t feel like personal success, it felt shared.
To me, this isn’t a crowning moment….it is a marker. Proof that if you fully embrace faith, responsibility and identity, it will carry you far. I’m grateful to God for the gift, for the courage to recognize it, and for the strength to apply it.
The mission continues…but this weekend, we honored (and celebrated!) how far we’ve come 🙏🏾
My Father’s Shadow is a seminal love letter to Nigeria, as never seen before, written by sons of the soil with grace and intention. @kingxdavies and @akinoladaviesjr represent a new vanguard of storytellers that the world needs now more than ever. It was my honour to observe them with my lens on this fateful day. Congratulations on winning this historic @bafta
Sartorial elegance by @kabiruabu 🇳🇬✊🏾
And @prada
Two years ago in Nigeria 🇳🇬, we made a film.
Today, we share it with the world.
My Father’s Shadow is out now in UK 🇬🇧 cinemas which marks the beginning of its global release!!
I’m proud of the accolades and milestones along the way, but seeing the film truly available & accessible…makes it all feel real!!
Forever grateful to the ‘MFS family’ who gave their time, talent, and hearts to bring this story to life. Thank you for helping birth something that will live far beyond today ❤️
