Abeni (film)

Abeni
Directed byTunde Kelani
Written byYinka Ogun
François Okioh
StarringJide Kosoko
Kareem Adepoju
Abdel Amzat
Bukky Wright
Production
companies
Dove Media, Laha Productions
Mainframe Film and Television Production
Distributed byMainframe Film and Television Productions
Release date
  • March 31, 2006 (2006-03-31)
Running time
98 minutes
CountriesNigeria
Benin
LanguagesYoruba
French

Abeni is a two-part 2006 Nigerian-Beninese romance film produced and directed by Tunde Kelani.[1][2] It depicts the social divide that occurs as a result of colonialism despite the geographical proximity between Benin and Nigeria.[3]

  1. ^ Akande, Victor (2007-04-28). "Movie Review: Abeni". The Nation (Nigeria). Archived from the original on 2014-10-31. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
  2. ^ Iyiola, Amos Damilare (2021-01-17). "Code-Switching, Code-Mixing and Code-Conflicting in Abeni by Tunde Kelani". KIU Journal of Humanities. 5 (4): 169–174. ISSN 2522-2821.
  3. ^ Ogunleye, Foluke (2014-03-17). African Film: Looking Back and Looking Forward. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4438-5749-9.