Hollywood actor Will Smith and talented Nigerian British-American actor and producer, David Oyelowo will both partner to adapt a Nigerian novel as a Netflix movie.
The pair are set to partner to produce the film adaptation of a Nigerian novel, “Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun” which was written by British-Nigerian author, journalist and hair care educator, Tola Okogwu.
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The novel which is to be written for adaptation by Ola Shokunbi Okogwu and made available for streaming exclusively by Netflix, using their production companies, Westbrook Studios and Yoruba Saxon respectively.
The soon-to-be published novel which tells the story of a teenager who discovers she has powers and journeys to Nigeria to find out more about her heritage, is set to join the ranks of other Nigerian novels that have been adapted on the big screen, some of which includes, Half of a Yellow Sun, written by Chimamanda Adichie, published in 2007 and adapted as a movie in 2013.
