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Filmmaker Kunle Afolayan celebrates as he clocks 46

Popular film maker, Kunle Afolayan is celebrating his 46th birthday today, 30th of September. The talented actor who is obviously in the mood of celebration took to his official Instagram page to acknowledge his birthday.

The father of 4 wrote;

Mo dupe Oloun…Rejoice with me as my life is the pure definition of grace. Happy birthday Akande”

“For those who do not know, Kunle Afolayan is of Igbomina-Yoruba descent, from Kwara State. He is the son of the famous theatre and film director cum producer Ade Love. He majored in economics and started out working in a bank while doing some casual acting, before deciding to move into full-time filmmaking and taking a course at the New York Film Academy.

Since 2005 he has been active in the Nigerian film industry. He has made several extremely popular titles including: The Figurine: Araromire which was in the Yoruba and English languages and Phone Swap which featured Wale Ojo, Joke Silva, Nse Ikpe Etim and the legendary Chika Okpala.

Read more: Actor Kunle Afolayan celebrates daughter’s birthday in absence of her mother

The Figurine won five major awards in the African Film Academy and experienced tremendous success in the Nigerian movie theaters.

Kunle Afolayan appeared at the Subversive Film Festival in 2011 where he represented Nigerian film industry, said, in 2009, to be the world’s second largest, with his colleague Zeb Ejiro. In May 2013, Phone Swap premiered in France at the first edition of NollywoodWeek Paris and won the Public Choice Award.

Afolayan’s father Adeyemi Josiah Afolayan (Ade-Love) was a Nigerian artist of the second half of the 20th century who worked in traveling theater, then turned to the film-making industry.

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