“Why I’m Already Doing Series Based on Mohbad’s Incident” – Kunle Afolayan

Popular Nigerian filmmaker and actor, Kunle Afolayan has revealed that he is already in the planning stage of doing a series inspired by the untimely mysterious death of late singer, Mohbad.

The “Academy” founder made this known in his most recent interview. According to him, the series will entitled Youth and Culture in the African Society.

Kunle said: “Recently, I did a short video about Mohbad, and there I mentioned that he acquired massive fame after he died, which is spiritual. As humans, when things happen, we tend to involve some spirituality, attributing good things to God and negative things to the Devil. In these situations, we are reluctant to think that the happenings could be the results of our actions. This was what informed my second breakout film The Figurine, as I set out to play with people’s minds and gave the story an ambiguous ending.
I’m of the school of thought that life has two sides: good and bad. Whether you’re good or bad, you reap your reward and extend it to your children and unborn generation. So, I try to be as realistic as possible, incorporating this knowledge in my films. I play with religion, beliefs and the natural human angle. All these inform my character constructs. I don’t do films just for entertainment. I do films so that people can see themselves in the characters and story. For instance, after the Mohbad incident, I resolved that I would do a film to reflect the decadence in society with regard to youth culture and substance abuse. I have already informed a writer to create a jumpy series around young people and college life. I think I owe the society the responsibility to use film as a tool to reflect, inform, and possibly correct.