Film Screening 5:30 PM | Q&A 7:30 PM
Following the Q&A will be a meet & greet with Omowunmi Dada, and a reception. Free to the public; please register at https://myumi.ch/MrdgR.

(1 hr 50 mins; Musical/Drama; 2021; Directed by Tunde Kalani)
Ayinla is a musical eponymous film based on the life of Ayinla Yusuf, popularly known as Ayinla Omowura, an Apala musician who was allegedly struck to death by his manager Bayewu in a bar fight on May 6, 1980 at Abeokuta, Nigeria.

Omowumi Dada is a Nigerian-born, award-winning Nollywood actress, presenter, and model who has been gracing the screens and stages for nearly ten years. She is most well known for her roles as “Folake” in the popular M-Net Africa television series Jemeji and “Linda” in the Netflix Original Film Òlòtūré. Dada was also in the film Eleshin Oba, an adaptation of Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman, nominated for a top 2023 Toronto Film Festival award.

Dada is DAAS/ASC’s 2023 Global Artist in Residence. While in Ann Arbor, Dada will work with the Swahili and Yoruba language instructors from the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) in developing audio-visual materials for teaching African languages as well as engaging with the broader University of Michigan (U-M) campus community. In addition, she will engage with elementary, middle, and high school students and teachers in Southeast Michigan. She will be featured in a series of events—about Nollywood and African filmmaking—organized by ASC and DAAS and collaborated with the School of Music, Theatre and Dance, the Residential College, and the Department of Film, Television, and Media.