Babaeko Moves AFRIFF Audience To Tears, Offers Child Actor Full University Scholarship

Steve Babaeko’s deeply personal short film _Ramat_ had its African premiere at AFRIFF on Thursday, 5 November 2026, to a full house and sustained applause.
The 8-minute film revisits the morning of 13 February 1976, when Babaeko, then a young boy, watched his father — a serving Nigerian Army officer — weep for the first and only time after news broke of the assassination of General Murtala Ramat Muhammed.
 
Speaking before the screening, Babaeko admitted the film terrified him.
 
“I have been on location for hundreds of commercials. I know what a set feels like. And yet making this film scared me. Because this is not a client’s story. It is mine. Like every major achievement in ...