Genevieve Nnaji, Fathia Balogun, Frank Rajah Arase, Ramsey Nouah and others make the 2011 ZAFAA Awards Nomination list!

The Zulu African Film Academy Awards (ZAFAA) 2011 nominations is out. Obi Emelonye’s ‘The Mirror Boy’, Frank Rajah’s ‘Somewhere in Africa’ had quite a number of nods. With Actors like Genevieve Nnaji, Fathia Balogun, Jackie Appiah etc also getting on the list.


ZAFAA is an acronym for Zulu African Film Academy Awards. It’s a London based awards. It’s an African award outside of Africa and its sole aim is to sell Africa to the international market, preferably non-Africans.
The dream is to bring all Africans to the awards but for now, the participating countries are Cameroon, Togo, Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia and Tanzania. There are far advanced plans to bring on board film makers from other African countries to expose their works to the international market.
Below are the full nominations:
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