Kunle was married to Tolu and they have four children together before they went their separate ways. Kunle Afolayan is from Kwara State. He is the son of the famous theatre and film director cum producer Ade Love.
He majored in economics and started out working in a bank while doing some casual acting, before deciding to move into full-time filmmaking and taking a course at the New York Film Academy.Since 2005 he
has been active in the Nigerian film industry. He has made several extremely
popular titles including: The Figurine: Araromire which was in the Yoruba and
English languages and Phone Swap which featured Wale Ojo, Joke Silva, Nse Ikpe
Etim and the legendary Chika Okpala. The Figurine won five major awards in the
African Film Academy and experienced tremendous success in the Nigerian movie
theaters.
Kunle Afolayan
appeared at the Subversive Film Festival in 2011 where he represented Nigerian
film industry, said, in 2009, to be the world's second largest, with his
colleague Zeb Ejiro. In May 2013, Phone Swap premiered in France at the first
edition of Nollywood Week Paris and won the Public Choice Award. Afolayan's
father Adeyemi Josiah Afolayan (Ade-Love) was a Nigerian artist of the second
half of the 20th century who worked in traveling theater, then turned to the
film-making industry.
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