Ace Filmmaker Kunle Afolayan has been told to cease fire following his allegations of piracy against actress Iyabo Ojo. The filmmaker who also has a clothing line on the side had shown displeasure at actress Iyabo Ojo for rocking a design similar to his popular Kunle’s Kembe and tagging another designer.
However fans have told the filmmaker to cease fire as the design is an old design older than even Afolayan.“He can’t claim the design” The IG user said!
Kunle Afolayan is a Nigerian actor, film producer and director. He is of Igbomina-Yoruba descent, from Kwara State. He is the son of the famous theater and film director and 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. 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.
Alice Iyabo Ojo is a Nigerian film actress, director, and producer. She has featured in over 150 films, and has produced over 14 of her own. She was born as Alice Iyabo Ogunro on December 21, 1977 in Lagos, Nigeria, although her father was from Abeokuta.She was the youngest of three children, having two older brothers. She went to school in Lagos at National College, Gbagbada, before proceeding to study Estate Management at Lagos State Polytechnic
Having been involved in a drama group at secondary school, she commenced her acting career in 1998. She registered with the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) through the help of Bimbo Akintola, she was also able to network to other people
Ojo has scripted and featured in several Nigerian films. Her first role was in 1998’s Satanic, an English-language film. In 2002, she made her Yoruba-language debut with Baba Darijinwon.[8] In January 2015, her film Silence, which features Joseph Benjamin Alex Usifo, Fathia Balogun, and Doris Simeon, premiered at the Silverbird Cinemas, Ikeja, in Lagos.
In 2004, Ojo started producing her own films, her first production being Bolutife, after which she made Bofeboko, Ololufe, Esan and Okunkun Biribiri.
Marrying a Lagos-based movie marketer in 1999, when she was 21 she took a break from pursuing her career. She gave birth to a son and then a daughter but is now divorced from their father. She has attributed the breakup of her first marriage to getting married too young.[13] She has spoken of her intention to stop using her former husband’s surname, Ojo
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