Portal:African cinema/Selected quotes/13

"Growing up, you hear a lot about American heroes, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and Winnie Mandela. You’re asking yourself, ‘Where are the Nigerian heroes?’ We must begin to tell those stories. A lot of our children do not have that historical perspective. They don’t get these stories because we’re not producing enough of them."

Bolanle Austen-Peters, director of biopics Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (2022) and House of Ga’a (2024).