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] Dul Johnson (born 16 September 1953) is a Nigerian filmmaker and author. He began his career as a drama director with the Nigerian Television Authority, Jos, and worked for many years before retiring into Independent Filmmaking and teaching. He has won national and international awards with his films and dramas, including ''There is Nothing Wrong with my Uncle'' (a cultural documentary), ''The Widow’s Might'' (a feature film), ''Against the Grain'', ''Wasting for the West'', ''Basket of Water'', and many others. ==Early life== Dul Johnson was born in a small village called Zamlaka in the present-day Langtang North Local Government Area of Plateau State. He is the fourth of Kongdak’s 10 children. Her bigger, and official name was Fakat, which, by tradition, was used by her husband and her mates who also had another name for her - Saḿbò. "My family was beautifully polygamous," says Johnson. At the age of three or four, he had fallen in love with his father’s small plantation of sugarcane and bananas interspersed with huge mango trees. “The impregnable mangoes have survived everyone, and will survive.” Having defeated the sugarcane and bananas the mangoes grew into a cluster, a mini-forest, to which Johnson performs a pilgrimage once in a while. He had started to learn the art of farming – “my Dad ensured it” – when he was taken off the sweet and sour routine of eating sugarcane, bananas and mangoes. The family had to migrate from Zamlaka in the north, the heart of Tarokland to Gina, a new home in the south of Langtang. But he was glad to escape the hard labour of the swampy plantation and the itchy, salty sweat that the sugarcane leaves and the hot sun caused. He was only five years old when they migrated to the south. There were more lands to cultivate; flat, fertile lands, but with more scorching heat. It was a new farming experience. Added to this were two new arts he had to learn: shepherding and blacksmithing. But he was soon yanked off these for a new life back in the North. He had to go to school. “The first five years of primary school (1961–65) were more hell than fun,” he said. Literally enslaved in the house of a stranger-relative, food, rest and recreation were as rare as diamond. The result was a terrible sickness that sent him back home in the South towards the end of 1965. School had to be suspended for one academic year. When he returned to school in 1967, his father, who had earlier feared his being spoilt by a grandmother, sent Dul to his maternal grandmother at the foot of the mountains at Timwat. If a little spoiling could help him recover fully, so be it. A bit of the sweet life in Timwat is captured in his story "Living with Shadows" in his short story collection ''Shadows and Ashes''. Blacksmithing (and its allied arts) is a vocation, was indeed a profession from his early age, which Johnson would never forget, and would love to return to any time. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dul Johnson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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