Netflix Movies Starring Edafe Okurume

Edafe, pronounced (AY-dah-fay), means "rich man" in the Urhobo language. Edafe's father, a Nigerian economist, his mother, an educator from Mississippi and his siblings moved to Nigeria when he was barely a year old. When he was seven, his parents separated and he moved back to America to live in his mother's hometown of Meridian, Mississippi. His parents later reconciled and the family moved back to Nigeria where he would attend boarding school. Edafe would return to the United States for his last years of high school. After attending Morehouse College, Edafe boarded a Greyhound bus with three hundred dollars in his pocket and headed to Los Angeles and within two months landed his first role on A Different World after Debbie Allen discovered him in a black history parade. Edafe would go on to star in the classic romantic comedy For Your Love for four seasons. Read more on iMDB