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Beyond the regular cinephile, there are the readers who were eager to see Swallow because it’s an adaptation of a Sefi Atta novel. And while, even amongst them, the reaction to the film has been polemical, there is a general agreement that the film didn’t explore the entirety of the book.

The constant has been Kunle Afolayan’s dedication to presenting craft as excellently as possible. But there has to be some ranking for those works, excellently as some of them are. Which is ‘best’ and which sits below the ranking. Here is a list of Afolayan’s best ten films. 

Starring Sola Sobowale, Adesua Etomi-Wellington, Toni Tones, Adedamola Adedoyin, Paul Sambo and Reminisce, King of Boys, the 2018 movie, went on to become the highest-grossing movie of 2018 and one of the top grossers of all time in Nigerian cinema.

It is very easy for people to argue about who gets to make or adapt African arts while equally using a made-outside-Africa smart device. This recently happened after Wizkid featured Justin Bieber in a remix of Essence. We have compiled a list of some of the times Nigerian songs were used in non-Nigerian films.