The Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Film by an African Living Abroad was an annual merit by the Africa Film Academy to reward the African filmmakers in the diaspora. The category was introduced in 2008 as Best Film African Diaspora and was cancelled after the 9th Africa Movie Academy Awards.
Best Film by an African Living Abroad Year Film Director Result2008Through the FireBleeding Rose2010Soul DiasporaOkra PrincipleChina WahalaCrunch2011In America: The Story of the Soul Sisters Rahman OladigboluAnchor BabyLonzo NzekweMirror BoyObi EmelonyeAfrica UnitedDebs Gardner-Brook2012Housemates Mystery Of BirdsBen KrossPaparazzi: Eye in the Dark2013Last Flight to Abuja Turning PointThe Assassin's PracticeBiancaWoolwich Boys2015FeversGone Too FarThorns of Roses (O Esphinho Da Rosa) Affairs of the Heart2016LambadinaSkinnedLAPD African CopBoxing Day MONA2017While We Live Saving DreamsTheory of ConflictA Mile in My ShoesHell’s Fury2018Alexandra MinisterLow Lifes And High Hopes2019RattlesnakesJulius AmedumeLara and the BeatTosin Coker MakeroomRobert O. Peters2020No ShadeClare Anyiam-OsigweEagles’ NestOlivier Assoua2 Weeks in LagosKathryn FaseghaIdemuzaAloaye OmoakeBetweenDaniel Adenimokan2021BlackmailObi EmelonyeFirst CallAngela OnuoraK.I.A.BEric Zoa&Oleksii OsykaGoneDaniel Ademinokan
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