Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Screenplay explained

The Africa Movie Academy Award for Achievement In Screen Play is an annual merit by the Africa Film Academy to recognise the best African films of the preceding year.^[1]

Best Screenplay
Year	Film	Recipient	Result
2005	The Mayors	Dickson Iroegbu, Tai Emeka Obasi
	Mastermind
	Afonja
	Yesterday
2006	Eagle's Bride
	Anini
	Behind Closed Doors
	Tanyaradzwa
	Arrou
2007	Sitanda
	Maroko
	Dancing Heart
	Azima
2008	Run Baby Run
	Checkpoint
	White Waters
	Across the Niger
	Mission to Nowhere
	30 Days
2009	From a Whisper	Wanuri Kahiu
	Seventh Heaven	Zainab Aziz
	Through the Glass	Stephanie Okereke
	Reloaded	Emem Isong
	Beautiful Soul	Tchidi Chikere
2010	I Sing of a Well	Leila Djansi
	Seasons of a Life	Shemu Joyah
	The Tenant	Jude Idada & Lucky Ejim
	Freedom in Chains
	Guilty Pleasures
2011	Sinking Sands	Leila Djansi
	Soul Boy	Hawa Essuman
	Hopeville
	Shirley Adams	Oliver Hermanus
	Izulu Lami
2012	Ties That Bind	Leila Djansi
	Mr. and Mrs.
	How to Steal 2 Million
	Otelo Burning
	Unwanted Guest
	Two Brides And A Baby
2013	Heroes and Zeros
	Contract
	Ninah’s Dowry
	Alan Poza	Charles Novia
	Blood and Henna
	Zama Zama
2014	Of Good Report
	Accident
	B for Boy
	Felix
	Potomanto
2015	Le President
	Love or Something Like That
	Run
	Timbuktu
	While You Slept
2016	Tell Me Sweet Something
	Beyond Blood
	The Cursed Ones
	Eye of the Storm
	The Visit
2017	Vaya
	Dora's Peace
	Félicité
	Oloibiri
	While We Live
2018	Hakkunde
	Five Fingers For Marseilles
	The Lost Café
	Ojukokoro
	Potato Potahto
	The Women
2019	Redemption
	The Delivery Boy
	Diamond in the Sky
	The God Statue
	Lara and the Beat
	The Last Victims
	Rafiki	Wanuri Kahiu, Jena Cato Bass
	Up North
2020	The Fisherman’s Diary
	For Maria: Ebun Pataki
	The White Line
	4th Republic
	Knuckle City
	40 Sticks
	Perfect Picture: Ten Years Later
	3 Days To Go
2021	Chasing Lullaby
	Where I Come From
	Stain	Morris Mugisha, Ronah Ninsiima
	Collision Course
	Hairareb

Notes and References

1. Web site: Official Website of the AMAAs . Africa Movie Academy Awards . 8 August 2014.