Soul Diaspora
''Soul Diaspora'' is a 2009 film written and directed by Odera Ozoka. The film received three nominations at the 6th Africa Movie Academy Awards in 2010 for ''Best Actor in a Leading Role'', ''Best film by an African Filmmaker in Diaspora'', and ''AMAA Achievement in Sound'', winning the award for ''Best film by an African Filmmaker in Diaspora''. In addition, the film won the ''Audience Favorite Award'' at the 2010 Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles, United States. Plot The story depicts Saidu ( Sadiq Abu), a Nigerian immigrant living in Los Angeles who is forced to overcome sleepless nights of his tormented past in Africa. The audience finds him alone in this modern world, often hearing voices in his head, sometimes not even his, as the film interweaves color and black and white to illustrate this protagonist's conflicted behavior and tortured mental state. Saidu's "life's path" brings him to working less than minimum wage at a mechanic shop, forging little by little a fr ...
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Odera Ozoka
Odera is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Chris Odera (1963–2012), Kenyan boxer *Ezekiel Odera (born 1988), Kenyan footballer *Owiso Odera (1974–2016), Sudanese-born Kenyan actor *Philip Odera (born 1961), Kenyan economist, businessman, and bank executive {{surname ...
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