Nigeria: Nigerian Brothers Bring Parallels of Fatherhood, Nationhood to the Screen

[RFI] Lagos, Nigeria, June 1993. Political upheaval grips the country as it votes in its first general election since the 1983 military coup. It's against this backdrop that Akinola Davies Jr set his award-winning debut film My Father's Shadow. Alongside hopes for a new nation are the trials and tribulations of an ordinary father and his sons - a story of love, loss and absence.