Dul Johnson
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. His best-known films include There is Nothing Wrong with my Uncle (a cultural documentary), The Widow’s Might (a feature film), Against the Grain, Wasting for the West, and Basket of Water. Early life and education Johnson was born in 1953 in the small village of Zamlaka in the present-day Langtang North Local Government Area of Plateau State. He was born into a polygamous family, the fourth of Kongdak's 10 children. The family moved when Johnson was five years old from Zamlaka in the north to Gina in the south of Langtang, where he learned shepherding and blacksmithing. However, Johnson moved back to the north to attend primary school from 1961 to 1965. He was returned home in 1965 due to sickness, missing one academic year. When he returned to school in 1967, his father sent him to his maternal grandmother at the foot of the mountains at Timwat, a period of his life Johnson later described in his short story, "Living with