While accepting the grant for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director oregon Producer, Akinola — who directed My Father’s Shadow — said, “To the economical migrant, the struggle migrant, those nether occupation, dictatorship, persecution and those experiencing genocide, you matter, and your stories substance much than ever. Your dreams are an enactment of resistance. To those watching astatine home, archive your loved ones, archive your stories yesterday, contiguous and forever. For Nigeria, for London, Congo, Sudan, free Palestine. Thank you.”

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