Documentary Films from Nigeria
Sat 29.5.2010, 18:00-20:00
International Cultural Centre Caisa
Mikonkatu 17C, Helsinki

POWWE’R ry welcomes you to take part in a viewing of three documentary films exploring the current state of affairs in Africa’s most populous country, Nigeria.

Documentary film maker Ihria Enakimio will be with us to discuss his films and the situation in his homeland. His films explore the political turmoil of the nation and the impact it has had on the everyday life of Nigerians.

Oil at the Bottom portrays life in the Nigerian oil region where some inhabitants of the area have turned to armed rebel groups and kidnappings to fight the rule they deem undemocratic.

We Dare Hope documents Nigeria’s presidential elections of 2003 where power was successfully handed from one civilian government to another for the first time in the history of independent Nigeria.

NO SAFE HAVEN: Acid; Liquid Hate explores the impacts of arbitrary rule on development, culture and tradition in Nigeria.

Ihria Enakimio is a Nigerian journalist, documentary film maker and societal activist. He will visit Finland in May to raise awareness on democracy development in Nigeria and the country's oil region in particular. The project is carried out with support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland.

You will also get a chance to flied direct questions and get uncensored answers to the current reality on ground after the passing of the former President Umaru Musa Yar'adua