Tunde Kelani premieres Maami at London Today

The Movie "Maami" UK premiere in London  will hold this afternoon at British Film Institute, Belverde Road South Bank, SE1 8XT at 2pm. Tunde Kelani will also be present for Q&A after the screening.

 

The movie story is centered about a Single parent, MAAMi, and her young son who are desperately poor. Gifted with a living heart, enterprising spirit and brave soul, she is the center of her son’s world, until he longs for the father he has never known – a man with a terrible secret. Set over a two-day period, leading to the 2010 World Cup, MAAMI is an inspiring story of a poor, conscientious single parent’s struggles to raise her only child, Kashimawo who eventually, rises to international stardom in an English football club, Arsenal, and becomes a national hero.
Adapted by Tunde Babalola, from Femi Osofisan’s novel of the same name, this film about love, perseverance and fate unfolds through Kashimawo’s reminiscences of his hardscrabble childhood in the southern Nigerian town, Abeokuta