AMA Award has catered for African narrative in 15 years but can be better

The 15th edition of the Africa Movie Academy Awards, AMAA held on Sunday, October 27 at the Landmark events center.

The 15th AMA Awards brings back a flush of memories of the first edition of the movie award ceremony, which was held in Bayelsa State in 2004.

Peace Anyiam-Osigwe, founder of AMAA, will forever be grateful to ex-President of Nigeria, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, for believing in her dream to change the African narrative and unite the film practitioners.

Peace Anyiam Osigwe, Olu Jacobs, Joke Silva at the 2016 AMAA

Jonathan, in 2004, was the governor of Bayelsa state while Peace was a film producer and administrator. Their path crossed, she sold him the idea of AMAA and an impressed Jonathan couldn’t believe an award of that magnitude could hold outside Lagos or Abuja - worse still Bayelsa. He bought the idea and AMAA was born.