Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam

Acting

2 movies

Biography

Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam grew up in a Nigerian village. He was a graduate student at San Francisco State College and a teacher in dramatic arts. Okpokam made his first film appearance in "Give Me a Riddle" (1966). He is one of the four charismatic Nigerians at the center of the movie, friends and students of director David Schickele when he was a Peace Corps volunteer a few years earlier. The shooting of "Bushman", again directed by David Schickele, started in 1968, Okpokam playing there the main...

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1968: Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, and Bobby Hutton are among the recent dead. In Nigeria, the Civil War is entering its second year with no end in sight. In San Francisco, the adventures of Gabriel, a young Nigerian reflects tribal, personal, and racial frictions during the tumultuous sixties. Truth is stranger than fiction in Bushman, a rare sort of film portrait, part document, part imagined – poetic in its approach to real events.

Bushman

1971

Nigeria became an independent country in 1960. In 1967 it was torn apart by civil war. Between these two events Nigeria enjoyed a kind of golden age, full of cultural ferment and cross-tribal fertilization. Every kid out of the village was writing the great Nigerian novel. A spirit of great hope prevailed through the land. Give Me A Riddle is about this golden age, seen through the eyes of ex-Peace Corps volunteer returning to his host country a couple of years after his Peace Corps service as a teacher at the University of Nigeria. The film follows Roger as he looks up his old student friends, travels with them to their homes, talks with them about their lives and the life of their country. Shot in 1966, the film is a time capsule of a Nigeria and the Peace Corps both in the rambunctious bloom of youth.

Give Me a Riddle

1966