Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
British actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje has won backing from screen legend and Sundance Film Festival founder Robert Redford for his script ‘Farming’, which is based on his experiences as a black child who became a skinhead during the heyday of the racist National Front in the 1970s.
This madness happened after his Nigerian parents fostered him out to a white working-class parents in Tilbury, Essex from the age of six weeks.
Adelwale said,
“They assumed anybody white was right. We became the first black children immersed in that skinhead sub-culture. It was traumatic and brutal.”
The Evening Standard reports that Adewale will be presented with a £10,000 award at the Sundance London Film Festival tonight after his script is read in public to financiers by Minnie Driver, Ashley Walters and David Harewood.
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Congratulations Adewale.
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I have to see this film. Nigerian fostering their children to white families is something that happened alot in the 70s and 80s with very bad effects.
Well I knew of black skinheads back then around the time of the 2 tone movement. Sp it was not that uncommon. As to the subject at hand, I suspect this is a different scenario, especially as Tilbury was a well known skinhead spot back then and very white too.
Well done to Wale. He has been working on this script for quite some time. Sounds like a great story to be told
HAPPENED TO ME TOO WALE IS JUST A WICKED DUDE…. HIS CHARACTER IN OZ …. IS ONE OF THE BEST CHARACTERS IN ANY SITCOM… he paved the way for idris
You learn something new everyday…explains a lot…
love this brother….will for sure see this when it comes out. He has mad talent…….