Ola Balogun

Ola Balogun is a Nigerian filmmaker and scriptwriter. He also ventured into the Nigerian music industry in 2001. Balogun, who has been making films for ,ore than three decades, is part of the first generation of Nigerian filmmakers.

Balogun was born in 1945 in Aba, Nigeria, to Yoruba parents. His father practised law in Aba until his death. The first language that Balogun learned to speak was Igbo. He attended Christ the King School, Aba, from 1951 to 1957, then went to Kings College, Lagos. He studied at the University of Dakar and at the University of Caen, France . He worked with Nigerias Federal Ministry of Information as a scriptwriter in 1969 and was later posted to Paris as a press attach of the Nigerian embassy. A pioneer of Nigerian filmmaking, Balogun produced his first films in the early 1970s. His 1981 film For Freedom! was entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival.

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