Directed by Andy Amenechi Release date 1996 Director Andy Amenechi | Music by Abay Esho Running time 104 minutes Initial release 1996 | |
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Cast Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, Fred Amata Written by Bond Emeruwa, Andy Amenechi Similar Blood Sister, Games Women Play, Last Flight to Abuja, Ijé, A Private Storm | ||
Mortal Inheritance is an award winning Nigerian film produced by Zeb Ejiro, directed by Andy Amenechi and written by Bond Emeruwa.
Plot
Mortal Inheritance is a romantic drama about a woman dealing with sickle-cell anaemia, the plot also delevs into cultural resistance to inter ethnic marriages in Nigeria. The protagonist of the story is Kemi, a Yoruba lady with sickle cell anemia, the part was played by Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde. She beat the odds of dying young as a sickle cell carrier and upon reaching adulthood, she fell in love with Chike, an Igbo man. But when she realised that Chike has the AS genotype or a sickle cell trait, she ended the relationship.
References
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