Responding to the critics of the style of grief exhibited in the movie, he stated that he shares a connection with the main character, Paul Edima, played by Richard Mofe-Damijo.
Speaking with Chude Jideonwo, the producer and director of the popular project said grief was something familiar to him, having lost two dear people to him in painful ways.
In his words, “I read someone in the comments; one says the grief in the black book was so superficial and people don’t grieve like that… No, you do not know grief more than I do. You see, my youngest brother was my first child… I lost him to cancer; it’s the worst way to die.”