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(Jubilant music)

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(Archive narrator)
It was appropriately on Founders\' Day

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that the new permanent buildings
of Ibadan University College, Nigeria

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were open.

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There are over 400 students.

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The local police band played its part
on this important occasion,

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the official opening of the new buildings
by Lord Tedder,

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Chancellor
of the University of Cambridge.

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Later, Lady Tedder unveiled
a commemorative plaque.

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The ceremony included
traditional academic courtesies

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while distinguished gentleman
were admitted as honorary associates.

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Certainly a historic day for Ibadan,

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which had carried on its work
in temporary quarters for 5 years.

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(Jubilant music stops)

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(Upbeat percussive music
and singing fades in)

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(Upbeat percussive music stops)

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(Man speaking in English) When we were
talking about major sentences,

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we said, what marks a major sentence
away from a minor sentence

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it\'s the compulsory availability
of the predicator in the structure.

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It\'s necessary that in the structure
of what is called a major sentence,

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there must be a predicator.

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We talked about the SPC

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as the element
making up the structure of the clause.

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So if clauses now form sentences,

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every clause that is a sentence
must have a predicator.

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If you have a sentence
where you have a clause

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and the clause
does not have a predicator,

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possibly, you may end up having
what is called a minor sentence.

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We\'re going to look at the different types
of minor sentences that we have

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and then we\'ll talk about other things.

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(Birds chirping)

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(Man)
Is there any fuel?

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Yes.

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(Indistinct chatter)

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We\'re going to open now.
Diekara is getting the key.

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Tobi!

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Into the holes.

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Which one? I don\'t know.

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There are two ports,
any of them.

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(Tapping)

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(Clicking)

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(Generator whirring)

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(Woman) So, welcome everybody
once again to TFS.

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TFS stands for Thursday Film Series.

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We\'re happy to have
every one of you here today.

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Thursday Film Series,
we screen films here, every Thursday,

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and this has been going on
for 3 years.

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We plan to continue this
and make it a sort of legacy.

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So, what makes Thursday Film special?
It\'s not just another movie-club.

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It\'s a movie club where you come,
see a film and talk about it.

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We discuss the films.

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It\'s an opportunity to learn,
expand your horizon

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and unlearn certain things, too.

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Today is the opening ceremony.
We\'re going to be seeing a film, \"Daratt\",

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which translates as \"dry\".

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Afterwards,
there\'s going to be a debate.

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So we\'d like you to wait
for both the screening and the debate.

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It\'d be lovely, because it promises
to be a wonderful one.

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(Thuds)

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(Indistinct speech)

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(Female student)
So, next round of comment.

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One, two, three...
four, five, six, seven...

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(Woman)
In fact, when the bombing occurred,

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one of the mothers of...

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one of the young girls
called my mother and said, er...

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\"Can you take me down to the church
to pick up Carol?\"

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\"We heard about the bombing
and I don\'t have my car.\"

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And they went down
and what did they find?

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They found limbs and heads
just thrown all over the place.

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After that,
in my neighbourhood

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all the men organised themselves
into an armed patrol.

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They had to take their guns
and patrol our community every night

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because they did not want that
to happen again.

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I mean, that\'s why
when someone asks me about violence

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I just, er...
I just find it incredible

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because what it means is that
the person who\'s asking that question

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has absolutely no idea
what black people have gone through,

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what black people
have experienced in this country

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since the time
the first black person was kidnapped

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from the shores of Africa.

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(Gentle music)

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(Applause)

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(Music stops)

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This year, we\'ve decided
that TFS shouldn\'t just screen...

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Of course, we\'ve been doing well
by screening every week.

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But we want to start theming
each month.

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This month, we have decided
to discuss reparation of African arts

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that have been taken to Europe,
bringing them back to Africa.

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We\'re going to screen movies
in line with those things.

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Aside from the double feature
and the regular screening,

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there will be a panellist discussion
addressing that issue.

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It goes on like that every month.

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Now, I\'d like to push out to the house,
let\'s start suggesting themes,

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and how we can make them
come into reality.

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So, themes for the year?

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Minority inclusion.

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- Can you...
- (Female student) ...elaborate?

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In terms of women\'s rights,

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Black Lives Matter,

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LGBT rights...

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(Female student)
Intersectionality.

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We should consider decolonisation,
intersectionality,

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and to some extent femininity,
or feminism.

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Immigration.

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We can link immigration,
migration and mobility.

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(Male student) Yeah.

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Instead of immigration,
we can say migration and mobility.

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So for migration and mobility,
we have women trafficking...

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What else do we have now?

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We have child labour,
everything under migration and mobility.

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But would human trafficking
also convey? We can separate...

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I think we should be careful
not to take crucial topics

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and just put it under one.

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Human trafficking is a big issue.
We can\'t just clump it into one.

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(Female student)
What is the most important thing

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- that people discuss in January?
- (Male student) Elections.

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(Laughter)

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Okay. January: elections.

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Elections are happening
not only in Nigeria.

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February is also
the election month for Niger.

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(Male student) Niger, yeah.
Congo just concluded their election.

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(Female student)
Yeah, Cameroon is also trying to...

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So, January: elections, politics.

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- Is it just elections?
- (Female student) Politics...

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We have a generator,
we need to work on fuelling.

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We\'ve been using the deficit
of the Black History Film Festival.

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That\'s why I was looking
for this envelope.

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See how tattered it looks!

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We had ₦25,970
at the end of the festival.

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But we\'ve been buying fuel,
buying fuel.

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So how much do we have left now?

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We have ₦20,000 in my account.

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- (Male student) Since last year?
- Yes.

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So we have ₦21,470.
We are rich!

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What\'s for February?
Decolonisation?

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Decolonisation of museums and arts.

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I was in the Goethe Institute
in December.

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There was a programme
addressing the issue of arts.

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Artefacts that were taken
from Africa to Europe.

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Everybody knows there are calls for
these things to be brought back to Africa.

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The big question was: should these
things really be brought back to Africa?

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Do we have the capacity to maintain them
like it has been maintained over there?

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The private museums in Africa...

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The public museums.
In what condition are they?

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The question of whether these items
should be brought back to Africa,

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it\'s not the question of whether
we can maintain them or not.

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If I steal your property,
I wouldn\'t need to tell you

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that this should be
better preserved by me.

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Just return it! What I do with it
is not your business.

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(Motorcycle engine starting)

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(Indistinct chatter)

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(Muffled downtempo music)

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(Loud chatter)

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(Gentle upbeat music)

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(Narrator speaking in French)
These roots flourish.

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The involuntary beauty of animals
and plants illuminates a girl\'s face.

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We can take its light for a smile,
or even its oil for a tear,

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and feel moved,

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as long as we acknowledge
that these images ignore us,

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that they\'re from another world,

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that we have nothing to do
in this gathering of ancestors

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who are not ours.

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We want to see in them
suffering, serenity, humour,

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even when we know nothing.

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Colonisers of the world,
we want everything to speak to us.

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The beasts, the dead, the statues.
And these statues are silent.

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They have mouths and don\'t speak.
They have eyes and don\'t see us.

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(Crowd shouting and chanting)

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(In French)

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From this time on,

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all the forces that tended to agitate
or oppose the power,

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were annihilated.

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I took the photo of Mobutu
and put it in the clouds.

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Before every TV news broadcast,

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we saw Mobutu emerge
from the clouds, like a god.

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(Upbeat percussive music
with male vocals)

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So, we\'re moving on to the next segment,
today we\'re having two films,

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a short film, which is 12 minutes
and then a feature length film.

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But before that,
the reason why we\'re here early today

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is because we want
to have a conversation about...

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...what it is
to be a student in Nigeria.

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Is there a life after this?

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Does it end here?
Is there something to look forward to?

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There\'s a saying now,
very popular among Nigerian students:

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They say:
\"School na scam.\"

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(Clap)

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We want to talk about this.

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Is our system... the system of
government, does it favour students?

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What is the point of coming to school
if after 4, 5, 7 years,

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you\'re not going to get a job,
despite your qualifications.

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We\'re in a system where PhD students
are driving trucks for Dangote.

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I want everybody to talk.

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Between school and the system,
I just want to make it clear:

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there\'s actually a scam somewhere.

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(Chuckles)

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There\'s a scam somewhere.

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To say education isn\'t a scam,
that\'s correct,

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but to say there\'s no scam at all,
that\'s wrong.

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I smell a scam somewhere

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- (Laughter)
- and that scam is stinky!

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That scam is the system.

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You asked: \"Are we lazy
or are there non-existing jobs?\"

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I think jobs are non-existent.

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Sorry... Now, when I finished school,
I studied theatre arts,

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I couldn\'t get...
I knew it was just a degree of prestige.

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Most of us, we go to school
just to say, \"I\'m a graduate.\"

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I did well, but I knew
I was never going to work in a theatre.

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How many theatres are there in Nigeria?
How many of you have gone to theatre?

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Apart from Terra Kulture?

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Every year they admit students.

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The name \"Theatre Arts\" should be
scrapped from the curriculum.

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I\'m not saying the degree is useless,
the courses should have been redefined.

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How many of our lecturers are...

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in terms with the current
labour market requirements?

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So, this thing is not
with the government alone,

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the thing is even down to
the academic system.

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Many people
will become lecturers tomorrow

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and will dive deep in the system.

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They say they study medicine,
or theatre arts...

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I\'m just saying,
the problem is there are no jobs,

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and then there are jobs
we don\'t have the skills.

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So we tend to get questions
from people:

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\"After school what are you going to do?
Become a teacher?\"

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And it discourages you. We get
discouraged by people\'s comments.

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With a course like English in Nigeria,
what are you going to do outside of it?

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It becomes worrisome, we don\'t have
a system that encourages this.

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Even parents, people...
Even students,

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those of us studying these courses
look down upon our studies.

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We believe that it\'s not important
in the environment.

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People say it\'s either you\'re a lawyer,
a banker, an accountant or a doctor.

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A carpenter in London earns good,

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and he\'s happy to tell you:
\"I\'m a carpenter\".

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He won\'t tell you:
\"I\'m into wood work designing,

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\"I design furniture,
I\'m a fashion designer with wood!\"

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(Laughter)

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He will tell you, \"I\'m a carpenter
and I love being a carpenter.\"

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In Nigeria, you work in a filling station
and tell the girl, \"I work in oil and gas.\"

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Oh boy, you sell petrol!

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(Burst of applause)

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(Indistinct chatter)

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(Indistinct)

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E get something
wey dey bother me

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About my country\'s people
or my people\'s country

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Where they teach us
about crayfish and condition

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Then bend us for missionary yansh
for upright position

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And we get used and abused
by these fat politicians

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Who toast us with lies
like better life bread

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Spread our legs like butter
for another 4 years

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And turn around, whisper in our ears:
\"Baby, I want to go another round!\"

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And then he goes around, another
4 years of being used and abused

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Till we\'re told to be used to be abused

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\"Shut, don\'t push us!

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\"8 years later
you\'ll still come and choose us\"

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And that shit bothers me!

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On my country\'s people
complacent comments

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\"That\'s the country for you o,
that\'s Naija o, na so we see am o\"

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E get something
wey dey bother me

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When half our graduates learnt nothing
from 4 years of University cramming

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The other half tint their hair
and are known for Internet scamming

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Then we wear our hypocrisy like
Naija made bulletproof ready-to-shoot

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Even when we condemn them
we glorify their music

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That\'s not even the problem

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Top employment granted to the top 1%

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The undeserving sons and daughters
of these same fat politicians

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Whose only 1st class were plane tickets
but then come back

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Expecting the country to give them
a free bus pass

00:21:53.880 --> 00:21:56.880
They know that in Nigeria
we value Oyibo education

00:21:56.960 --> 00:21:58.760
Even when it\'s a 3rd class

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(Cheers)

00:22:00.760 --> 00:22:02.400
(Fingers clicking)

00:22:02.480 --> 00:22:05.760
So you send your kids to school abroad

00:22:05.840 --> 00:22:09.080
Yet say that you can\'t afford
to pay government school workers

00:22:09.160 --> 00:22:12.760
Condemn the rest of us to Asuu strikes
and a subpar education

00:22:12.840 --> 00:22:16.440
Make us wait as time is wasting,
make us waste like time is waiting

00:22:17.480 --> 00:22:21.720
I spent up to 6 years on a 4 year course
and you say that\'s not your fault

00:22:24.080 --> 00:22:26.800
You\'ll always be rich
in your family line but mine?

00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:29.560
You say as long as I can cram
and graduate with the 1st class

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Then I should be fine

00:22:31.200 --> 00:22:34.960
And then we have the audacity
to call these boys with tinted hair 419

00:22:35.800 --> 00:22:37.680
That\'s the real crime

00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:40.280
E get something
wey dey bother me

00:22:42.440 --> 00:22:43.840
- (Laughs)
- (Audience laughs faintly)

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I am an offspring of the British empire

00:22:46.680 --> 00:22:49.520
She was my mother\'s mother,
which makes her my grandmother

00:22:49.600 --> 00:22:52.400
At a tender age,
Grandma took her daughter

00:22:52.480 --> 00:22:54.160
and taught her how to lie and steal

00:22:54.240 --> 00:22:57.040
One day, she took a knife
and cut her into three

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The amalgamation of our skin,
and then she left

00:23:02.160 --> 00:23:04.040
And ever since then

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All my mother has done is teach
her children how to lie and cheat

00:23:08.480 --> 00:23:11.360
And divide ourselves,
Yorùbá, Ìgbò, Hausa

00:23:11.440 --> 00:23:12.600
(Fingers clicking)

00:23:12.680 --> 00:23:14.600
Straight or gay

00:23:14.680 --> 00:23:16.400
Christian or Muslim

00:23:16.480 --> 00:23:20.400
And the lies only grow further apart
each day

00:23:20.480 --> 00:23:23.240
Because we teach these same divides
to our children

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Britain gave her daughter Independence

00:23:30.760 --> 00:23:33.320
But didn\'t teach her
how to be independent

00:23:35.160 --> 00:23:39.240
So Nigeria never taught us
how to be Nigerians

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Thank you.

00:23:41.680 --> 00:23:43.800
(Cheers and applause)

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(Indistinct chatter)

00:23:59.120 --> 00:24:00.480
(Speaking in Pidgin English)
Chief!

00:24:00.560 --> 00:24:02.360
I call you, you don\'t hear...

00:24:05.280 --> 00:24:06.720
One.

00:24:06.800 --> 00:24:08.840
You don\'t have change ?

00:24:11.440 --> 00:24:13.360
(Whistle blows)

00:24:13.440 --> 00:24:15.440
(Indistinct shouting)

00:24:21.440 --> 00:24:22.360
(Cheers)

00:24:22.440 --> 00:24:24.000
(Whistle blows)

00:24:24.080 --> 00:24:26.240
(Applause)

00:24:26.320 --> 00:24:28.560
(Indistinct chatter)

00:24:32.440 --> 00:24:34.440
(Whistle blows)

00:24:39.840 --> 00:24:41.960
(Whistle blows)

00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:48.440
- (Cheers and shouting)
- (Whistle blows)

00:24:51.240 --> 00:24:53.440
(Cheers)

00:25:12.960 --> 00:25:15.440
(Indistinct shouting)

00:25:23.160 --> 00:25:25.840
Tundé, what\'s up?

00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:35.440
(Short burst of clapping)

00:26:05.440 --> 00:26:07.360
(Knocks on door)

00:26:07.440 --> 00:26:09.440
(Indistinct chatter)

00:26:17.320 --> 00:26:19.720
...he makes them by himself.

00:26:19.800 --> 00:26:21.840
- Is he based on the campus?
- No.

00:26:23.640 --> 00:26:25.360
He has his workshop in town.

00:26:26.520 --> 00:26:27.960
Here in Ibadan?

00:26:31.760 --> 00:26:33.840
He makes them on demand.

00:26:34.640 --> 00:26:39.520
I even have one from Bello Hall.

00:26:41.600 --> 00:26:43.720
I\'ll buy this one, how much?

00:26:44.840 --> 00:26:46.120
3K?

00:26:46.840 --> 00:26:50.040
I\'ll buy this one to remember Tedder Hall.

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Do you know
what is written on my shirt ?

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Can you read it?

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- In French?
- No, it\'s not French.

00:27:02.080 --> 00:27:04.080
Actually it\'s German.

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Free... dom.

00:27:06.920 --> 00:27:08.600
Go ahead.

00:27:13.800 --> 00:27:15.800
I can\'t even pronounce that.

00:27:15.880 --> 00:27:17.480
(Laughs)

00:27:17.560 --> 00:27:20.360
- Actually it\'s \"meine freundin...\"
- My freedom...

00:27:20.440 --> 00:27:22.720
- (Laughter)
- This one actually looks like freedom.

00:27:22.800 --> 00:27:28.600
It\'s not freedom, it\'s different,
it\'s \"my girlfriend\".

00:27:28.680 --> 00:27:33.920
So it says, \"Meine Freundin
Hat Den Geilsten Arsch... Mich!\"

00:27:34.680 --> 00:27:40.360
That\'s like, \"my girlfriend
has the most amazing ass\".

00:27:40.440 --> 00:27:42.720
(Laughter)

00:27:42.800 --> 00:27:44.760
Amazing !

00:27:46.200 --> 00:27:49.480
They changed a syllable,
turning \"ass\" to \"arsch\".

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- Which language is it?
- It\'s German.

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I was coming from the gate

00:28:04.160 --> 00:28:06.920
when I met this guy
from Tedder Hall like us.

00:28:07.440 --> 00:28:10.200
We greeted each other

00:28:10.280 --> 00:28:15.080
and I caught the sight
of what he had on his T-shirt

00:28:15.160 --> 00:28:18.200
and I said, \"Do you know
what is written on your shirt?\"

00:28:18.280 --> 00:28:21.040
He said no,
he didn\'t even know the language.

00:28:21.120 --> 00:28:25.600
He said someone bought it for him
and the guy is actually a pastor.

00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:27.120
(Laughter)

00:28:27.200 --> 00:28:29.200
Problem!

00:28:29.760 --> 00:28:35.280
So I told him I knew the meaning
and asked if he wanted to know.

00:28:35.800 --> 00:28:38.000
He was like, \"Jesus!\"

00:28:41.280 --> 00:28:45.760
He was like, \"blood of Jesus,
holy spirit!\", a student pastor.

00:28:45.840 --> 00:28:47.440
I started laughing

00:28:47.520 --> 00:28:51.880
and I said that I like the T-shirt
because I speak German,

00:28:51.960 --> 00:28:54.360
so we basically swapped our T-shirts...

00:28:54.440 --> 00:28:56.440
(Rumble of thunder)

00:28:57.440 --> 00:28:59.360
(Patter of rain patter)

00:29:00.240 --> 00:29:02.440
(Rumble of thunder)

00:29:05.600 --> 00:29:07.640
(Distant chatter)

00:29:14.440 --> 00:29:16.440
(Distant laughter)

00:29:31.160 --> 00:29:33.400
(Mellow jazz)

00:30:18.840 --> 00:30:21.120
(Faint chatter in the background)

00:30:35.080 --> 00:30:37.440
(Music fades)

00:31:25.440 --> 00:31:27.960
(Women singing on screen)

00:31:46.440 --> 00:31:50.400
(French narration on screen)
Celebrating her son\'s second marriage,

00:31:50.480 --> 00:31:55.000
Alexandre\'s mother hopes to regain
the influence she felt she lost over him,

00:32:02.600 --> 00:32:06.280
...in the family of the one with whom
she will now share her husband.

00:32:08.240 --> 00:32:10.720
The recommendations
of her mother-in-law,

00:32:10.800 --> 00:32:14.360
will not be too much to help her
through this ordeal.

00:32:14.440 --> 00:32:16.440
(Cheers on screen)

00:32:38.440 --> 00:32:39.480
(Applause)

00:32:39.560 --> 00:32:41.920
Article 213.

00:32:43.640 --> 00:32:45.920
The husband is the head of the family.

00:32:48.920 --> 00:32:51.760
As I understand it,
being the head of the family,

00:32:52.600 --> 00:32:55.240
of course, means to run the family,

00:32:55.800 --> 00:32:59.480
to organise the home
and to put up with your wife.

00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:03.520
On the eve of the third millennium,

00:33:03.600 --> 00:33:07.920
if you want, at any cost,
as future husband

00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:12.280
to monitor everything your wife does,
you won\'t keep her long.

00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:16.920
You can, sometimes, turn a blind eye
or pretend to not know,

00:33:17.000 --> 00:33:18.280
(Laughter)

00:33:18.360 --> 00:33:21.000
listening
and pretending not to listen,

00:33:21.080 --> 00:33:23.160
hearing
and pretending not to hear.

00:33:23.240 --> 00:33:25.880
Then you can keep her for a long time.

00:33:25.960 --> 00:33:28.760
This is what it is
to be the head of the family.

00:33:29.320 --> 00:33:34.840
(Man speaking in English) The filmmaker
was showing how patriarchy works,

00:33:34.920 --> 00:33:37.360
in this case, it\'s against women.

00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:42.360
But one thing that I noticed the most
out of them is the complacency.

00:33:42.440 --> 00:33:43.480
(Laughter)

00:33:43.560 --> 00:33:45.160
Yes, it\'s the complacency.

00:33:45.240 --> 00:33:49.360
How society has so much stifled women
to the point where...

00:33:49.440 --> 00:33:50.960
they can\'t say anything.

00:33:51.040 --> 00:33:53.400
And they use it as a tool,

00:33:53.480 --> 00:33:57.760
they\'re using other women to make
women complacent in these acts.

00:33:57.840 --> 00:34:03.560
You see women telling other women,
\"This is how things are.

00:34:03.640 --> 00:34:06.760
\"You can\'t spit something out
and swallow it at the same time.\"

00:34:07.720 --> 00:34:11.640
Both films, especially the first one,
there was a lot of benevolent sexism.

00:34:11.720 --> 00:34:16.520
I have a feeling I\'m going to be hearing
a lot of it in this room,

00:34:16.600 --> 00:34:19.760
so let me get that out of the way.

00:34:19.840 --> 00:34:25.280
This conversation about how women
help to oppress women, get over it.

00:34:25.360 --> 00:34:28.160
Like you said:
negotiation of power.

00:34:28.240 --> 00:34:30.520
Older women in particular,

00:34:30.600 --> 00:34:35.040
have to subscribe to patriarchy
to survive.

00:34:35.120 --> 00:34:39.280
Did you see in the second film
how they referred to the mother?

00:34:40.120 --> 00:34:42.960
They called her a whore
just for being single.

00:34:43.560 --> 00:34:46.600
Then they asked her,
\"Do you live with someone?\"

00:34:46.680 --> 00:34:50.720
Meaning she\'s married...
We all know this:

00:34:50.800 --> 00:34:54.080
if you\'re not in some way
associated with a man,

00:34:54.160 --> 00:34:57.360
you\'re not considered important.

00:34:57.440 --> 00:35:02.040
So this conversation,
especially from men, really annoys me.

00:35:02.120 --> 00:35:05.920
Leave the women alone,
focus on yourself and fixing each other.

00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:08.520
Stop talking about how women
are oppressing women.

00:35:08.600 --> 00:35:12.680
If you give women the space
to speak for themselves,

00:35:12.760 --> 00:35:16.360
there won\'t be need for us
to have to caution other women

00:35:16.440 --> 00:35:18.480
to toe the line
for their safety.

00:35:18.560 --> 00:35:21.840
Because that\'s it, these women
are doing it for their safety.

00:35:22.440 --> 00:35:27.640
We know what happens
when you\'re not subscribed to patriarchy.

00:35:27.720 --> 00:35:31.240
Then the second thing about Cameroon,

00:35:32.160 --> 00:35:37.960
erm, in Nigeria we don\'t have full rights,
we don\'t have full say.

00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:41.440
The truth is we are all negotiating
in some way,

00:35:41.520 --> 00:35:43.640
and we have lied to ourselves

00:35:43.720 --> 00:35:49.000
that what we have here
is in some way ideal or better.

00:35:49.080 --> 00:35:54.840
There\'s nothing I saw in that second film
that I haven\'t seen in Nigeria.

00:35:54.920 --> 00:35:57.440
Not the prison problem,

00:35:57.520 --> 00:36:00.680
even the whole thing
about the husband.

00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:03.480
Do you know there was
a gender equal opportunity bill

00:36:03.560 --> 00:36:06.160
that has been struck down
numerous times?

00:36:06.960 --> 00:36:09.240
Because they don\'t want...

00:36:09.320 --> 00:36:12.480
Exactly what they said,

00:36:12.560 --> 00:36:14.720
\"We\'ve given them all the rights
that they need.

00:36:14.800 --> 00:36:17.080
\"What more do women want?\"

00:36:17.160 --> 00:36:21.040
So just because you don\'t know,

00:36:21.120 --> 00:36:23.040
you\'re not aware of these laws,

00:36:23.120 --> 00:36:27.280
just because, at weddings,
we don\'t announce the laws

00:36:27.360 --> 00:36:31.080
that tell men how to treat their women,

00:36:31.160 --> 00:36:33.120
doesn\'t mean it doesn\'t exist.

00:36:33.200 --> 00:36:38.280
Lagos State is the only state right now
that criminalises marital rape.

00:36:39.320 --> 00:36:42.680
None of the other States
have agreed to it.

00:36:42.760 --> 00:36:45.280
It\'s not illegal at the federal level.

00:36:46.440 --> 00:36:50.520
I don\'t believe
that men should keep mute,

00:36:50.600 --> 00:36:55.600
or shouldn\'t have an opinion
about patriarchy, feminism.

00:36:56.200 --> 00:37:01.200
I\'m man and I\'m going to get married
and I want to have daughters.

00:37:01.280 --> 00:37:05.880
And I think that my opinion
is important going forward.

00:37:06.480 --> 00:37:10.640
I never blamed a women.
I said the women are complacent,

00:37:10.720 --> 00:37:14.120
because they are being used as tools
by the men.

00:37:14.200 --> 00:37:17.840
So the patriarchy is the problem.

00:37:17.920 --> 00:37:22.440
The one thing
that I do have something against,

00:37:22.520 --> 00:37:27.080
is saying that men shouldn\'t be involved
in this conversation.

00:37:27.160 --> 00:37:30.280
I just want to land something.

00:37:30.360 --> 00:37:33.400
The wisest thing I ever heard,

00:37:33.480 --> 00:37:37.200
about the whole feminism struggle
in Nigeria,

00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:40.960
and the way we force women into roles,

00:37:41.040 --> 00:37:44.560
it came from the most
unexpected person: it was a king.

00:37:44.640 --> 00:37:48.440
Somebody who has been steeped
in oppressive culture.

00:37:48.520 --> 00:37:53.880
Someone who has brought around
the idea that he, as a man, is the leader.

00:37:54.480 --> 00:38:01.120
And he said something. He mentioned
how society has a lot to do...

00:38:01.200 --> 00:38:04.600
in suppressing women
and fixing them into roles.

00:38:04.680 --> 00:38:07.720
When we teach our children,
the boys,

00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:12.920
the example he gave is like:
a boy sees a car, he likes it,

00:38:13.520 --> 00:38:19.560
and the parents,
or society tells the boy,

00:38:19.640 --> 00:38:24.120
\"You\'re going to work for that car,
you\'ll buy it, it will be yours.\"

00:38:24.200 --> 00:38:27.600
If a girl sees the car
what they tell her is,

00:38:27.680 --> 00:38:31.280
\"You want that car, don\'t worry,
you\'ll marry somebody who has it.\"

00:38:32.120 --> 00:38:35.720
So it\'s that sort of thinking
that we need to subvert.

00:38:36.560 --> 00:38:42.040
So I believe that men cannot be excluded
from the issue of patriarchy.

00:38:42.120 --> 00:38:47.080
We are it itself.
We are an embodiment of patriarchy.

00:38:48.040 --> 00:38:52.120
First of all,
that was not in any way profound.

00:38:52.200 --> 00:38:56.680
Everybody says that, it\'s the most basic
of \"women have rights\".

00:38:56.760 --> 00:39:01.120
The way men or boys are raised

00:39:01.200 --> 00:39:03.200
is different from the way
women are raised.

00:39:03.280 --> 00:39:07.160
There was nothing fantastic,
if that\'s your reasoning.

00:39:07.240 --> 00:39:10.480
Now what I said was,
I didn\'t say men shouldn\'t speak.

00:39:10.560 --> 00:39:14.800
Boss, you said you\'ll have daughters.
What happens when you have sons?

00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:18.160
Because everyone seems
to be concerned about their mothers,

00:39:18.240 --> 00:39:20.440
their sisters, cousins, daughters...

00:39:20.520 --> 00:39:25.480
They\'re looking for ways
to continue to tell women how to live.

00:39:25.560 --> 00:39:28.360
At what point are you calling out
your fellow men?

00:39:28.440 --> 00:39:32.040
Are you looking at your own actions?

00:39:32.120 --> 00:39:35.120
I\'m not saying
men shouldn\'t have an opinion.

00:39:35.200 --> 00:39:37.560
But my problem is
that most of these opinions

00:39:37.640 --> 00:39:41.880
seem to still be directed
at telling women how to do things.

00:39:41.960 --> 00:39:43.720
Are you changing yourself?

00:39:43.800 --> 00:39:47.160
Do you sit down with men
and talk about patriarchy?

00:39:47.240 --> 00:39:50.800
Are you concerned
about how your son is going to be

00:39:50.880 --> 00:39:53.960
in this new future
that you are envisioning,

00:39:54.040 --> 00:39:56.480
or are you only worried
about your daughter?

00:39:56.560 --> 00:40:01.200
Which again is you
still policing a woman.

00:40:01.280 --> 00:40:06.240
I\'m not saying don\'t have opinions.
Please. We are all needed in this fight.

00:40:06.320 --> 00:40:09.240
But the problem is
you keep seeming to think

00:40:09.320 --> 00:40:13.240
it is only women
that need to be spoken to.

00:40:14.920 --> 00:40:19.920
On this issue of oppression of women
and this and that...

00:40:20.680 --> 00:40:24.480
Personally,
I\'m not opposing that...

00:40:24.560 --> 00:40:27.400
women should speak up,

00:40:27.480 --> 00:40:30.800
to fight for their rights
or for equality.

00:40:31.440 --> 00:40:34.640
But the way the struggle is going,

00:40:34.720 --> 00:40:40.560
I\'m having a little fear about it.

00:40:40.640 --> 00:40:42.200
(Laughter)

00:40:42.280 --> 00:40:47.000
We all went to primary school,
we were told:

00:40:48.120 --> 00:40:51.800
\"If you ever beat a female student,

00:40:52.640 --> 00:40:54.640
\"you are in trouble.

00:40:54.720 --> 00:40:59.520
\"No matter what she does
you must not beat her.\"

00:40:59.600 --> 00:41:04.160
Now this was given to us,
we were told.

00:41:05.440 --> 00:41:09.800
Somehow the female ladies
kind of got empowered,

00:41:10.520 --> 00:41:13.240
She could come behind
and abuse your father.

00:41:13.320 --> 00:41:16.280
- (Woman interrupts)
- Let me finish.

00:41:16.360 --> 00:41:20.080
No matter what a police officer
does to you, do you beat them?

00:41:20.600 --> 00:41:25.000
Answer! No matter what a soldier
does to you, do you beat them?

00:41:25.080 --> 00:41:26.680
It\'s the same thing:

00:41:26.760 --> 00:41:30.560
men, policemen and soldiers
who are in a position of power,

00:41:30.640 --> 00:41:35.240
also use their power to their advantage,
so what exactly is your point?

00:41:35.320 --> 00:41:37.480
Why would you use that
as an excuse?

00:41:37.560 --> 00:41:41.680
Why is it that it pains you so much
that you\'re not allowed to beat a woman?

00:41:41.760 --> 00:41:45.760
Why are you so preoccupied
with violence towards women?

00:41:45.840 --> 00:41:48.760
You\'re the one doing violence here!

00:41:48.840 --> 00:41:51.360
What is wrong with you? Come on!

00:41:51.440 --> 00:41:54.200
- (Clamour)
- Are you people okay?

00:41:55.320 --> 00:41:58.440
\"They\'re now taking advantage!\"
Come on!

00:41:58.520 --> 00:42:00.800
Do you know how often that is said?

00:42:00.880 --> 00:42:03.440
White people said it
to black people.

00:42:03.520 --> 00:42:08.120
\"I don\'t like the tone,
the way they\'re going about it.\"

00:42:08.200 --> 00:42:10.360
\"I don\'t mind them
fighting for their freedom

00:42:10.440 --> 00:42:13.000
\"but this is how they should fight for it\".

00:42:13.080 --> 00:42:14.760
Jesus Christ!

00:42:15.960 --> 00:42:19.560
This is why revolutions
always end up being violent!

00:42:19.640 --> 00:42:21.720
This is why!

00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:25.440
(Generator whirring)

00:42:42.280 --> 00:42:45.040
(Muffled indistinct speech)

00:42:55.920 --> 00:42:59.240
Anything that you see
that resembles holiness

00:42:59.320 --> 00:43:01.080
and you trace its roots back,

00:43:01.160 --> 00:43:04.040
and you cannot find it in God,
it is fake.

00:43:08.440 --> 00:43:10.440
(Indistinct chatter)

00:43:38.840 --> 00:43:41.280
(Cicadas chirping)

00:43:41.360 --> 00:43:44.080
(Distant chatter)

00:44:44.960 --> 00:44:47.240
(Birds chirping)

00:44:50.320 --> 00:44:52.440
(Broom brushing against the ground)

00:46:01.280 --> 00:46:02.760
Good afternoon, everyone.

00:46:03.960 --> 00:46:07.280
Today we are going to be doing
something exciting.

00:46:07.360 --> 00:46:11.000
We have invited a visual artist,

00:46:11.080 --> 00:46:15.480
a documentary photographer
from Lagos.

00:46:15.560 --> 00:46:20.440
In the person of
Ọbáyọmí Anthony Ayọ̀délé.

00:46:20.960 --> 00:46:24.080
- So he\'s here, with us.
- (Applause)

00:46:24.160 --> 00:46:30.800
We are going to be looking at his work,
\"Bonafide Squatters\".

00:46:31.360 --> 00:46:36.520
He\'s quite young,
he went to the University of Lagos.

00:46:36.600 --> 00:46:39.440
He graduated last year
or 2 years ago.

00:46:39.520 --> 00:46:46.560
And his documentary depicts
the housing conditions

00:46:46.640 --> 00:46:50.800
in public universities in Nigeria,
focusing on UNILAG.

00:46:51.680 --> 00:46:56.480
So he\'s here today,
we\'re going to see his photographs,

00:46:57.520 --> 00:47:01.160
and talk about his work,

00:47:01.240 --> 00:47:05.280
but we also hope
that this will lead to some conversation

00:47:05.360 --> 00:47:10.240
about the housing conditions
in this university.

00:47:10.320 --> 00:47:15.360
So I welcome Ọbáyọmí.
He\'s an award-winning photographer!

00:47:15.440 --> 00:47:17.880
- (Applause)
- Thank you for joining us

00:47:17.960 --> 00:47:19.880
- and over to you!
- Thank you.

00:47:20.640 --> 00:47:22.720
Because people don\'t have
somewhere to live,

00:47:22.800 --> 00:47:26.640
creative solutions
come out of problems.

00:47:26.720 --> 00:47:32.000
This space used to be an art studio

00:47:32.080 --> 00:47:36.400
when that part of the school was in use.

00:47:36.480 --> 00:47:41.720
But the Arts Department got moved
and this place became empty.

00:47:41.800 --> 00:47:46.160
So students without spaces moved in,
mostly art students,

00:47:46.240 --> 00:47:49.040
just occupied the space for ourselves.

00:47:49.120 --> 00:47:51.400
I stayed there for 6 months.

00:47:51.480 --> 00:47:54.920
It\'s when I was staying here
that I started the project.

00:47:55.560 --> 00:47:57.800
I was living in school.

00:47:58.680 --> 00:48:01.360
It was my third year in university.

00:48:01.880 --> 00:48:06.800
I had already been through 2 years
of struggling, squatting...

00:48:06.880 --> 00:48:11.200
I think I was so desensitised
because it was my every day.

00:48:11.280 --> 00:48:13.800
In Lagos,
the noise is our every day.

00:48:13.880 --> 00:48:17.040
If someone from Ibadan comes,
he\'ll find it unbearable.

00:48:17.680 --> 00:48:19.880
It was my every day. I was desensitised.

00:48:19.960 --> 00:48:24.640
I didn\'t see it much
because I was living in the situation.

00:48:25.440 --> 00:48:28.840
After going to some workshops,

00:48:28.920 --> 00:48:32.560
trying to improve my art,
my storytelling,

00:48:32.640 --> 00:48:36.800
I was trying to learn
how to see things better,

00:48:36.880 --> 00:48:39.040
especially things
that are so close to me.

00:48:39.920 --> 00:48:44.360
And I was able to remove the filter
of my desensitization

00:48:44.440 --> 00:48:48.800
from the situation that I was in
and I was able to see a bit better.

00:48:48.880 --> 00:48:51.960
This image...

00:48:52.040 --> 00:48:54.040
is another establishing picture.

00:48:54.560 --> 00:48:58.320
If you look at these windows,
all those dots are shoes.

00:48:58.960 --> 00:49:03.960
We arranged the shoes
on those windows like alternative shelves.

00:49:04.040 --> 00:49:08.360
This happens after the space around
had already been filled up.

00:49:08.440 --> 00:49:12.400
This was my room at some point.

00:49:12.480 --> 00:49:14.720
These guys are my roommates.

00:49:15.600 --> 00:49:18.240
As jam-packed as it might look,

00:49:18.320 --> 00:49:22.160
this was not as overpopulated.

00:49:22.240 --> 00:49:24.880
This was a room for six people.

00:49:25.640 --> 00:49:28.440
It was a room built for two people,

00:49:28.520 --> 00:49:33.400
but the school increased the number
to four then later to six.

00:49:33.480 --> 00:49:37.560
Those six people each have at least
one person squatting with them.

00:49:38.320 --> 00:49:44.640
That was the most civil you could have it.
Just one person squatting with you.

00:49:45.400 --> 00:49:50.600
In some rooms there were lawlessness
and one person could bring five people.

00:49:51.200 --> 00:49:56.600
Imagine the kind of level you descend to
when that happens.

00:49:57.520 --> 00:50:02.000
After a year I decided to explore
the situation in another school.

00:50:02.080 --> 00:50:05.800
I realised
there wasn\'t much of a difference.

00:50:05.880 --> 00:50:09.760
Most of them were worse
than what I saw in UNILAG.

00:50:11.280 --> 00:50:14.840
Day time, night time,
it was like this.

00:50:14.920 --> 00:50:19.360
I spoke to this guy, actually.
He wasn\'t asleep. He was on the phone.

00:50:19.880 --> 00:50:26.280
He told me he slept here all semester,
during 3 to 4 months.

00:50:26.800 --> 00:50:28.800
This is where he was based.

00:50:30.520 --> 00:50:32.800
More corridor sleeping...

00:50:34.600 --> 00:50:39.440
This was during the day,
they had gone for classes.

00:50:39.520 --> 00:50:42.960
I think it was during exams,
so people already left.

00:50:44.520 --> 00:50:50.040
In conjunction with all these problems,
we also had a lot of power issues.

00:50:50.800 --> 00:50:52.600
So, erm...

00:50:53.480 --> 00:50:56.480
This was the first day
I went to shoot in Yabatech,

00:50:56.560 --> 00:51:00.240
and there was no light anywhere,
except for the gate.

00:51:01.360 --> 00:51:03.400
This is UNILAG.

00:51:04.120 --> 00:51:09.240
Students were always reading under
street lights, ATMs, machine lights.

00:51:10.240 --> 00:51:12.760
Any source of light... that you can find.

00:51:12.840 --> 00:51:15.120
These lights, here...

00:51:15.200 --> 00:51:17.120
(Audience murmurs)

00:51:17.200 --> 00:51:21.360
...were coming from some street lights
outside of the hostel,

00:51:21.440 --> 00:51:25.360
but there was a part of the fence
were the light could filter in.

00:51:25.440 --> 00:51:29.640
Near the gates. So, this is
where these guys were able to settle...

00:51:29.720 --> 00:51:33.840
The majority of people
actually live outside of campus,

00:51:33.920 --> 00:51:35.640
This is not the majority.

00:51:35.720 --> 00:51:39.200
At the time I was a student in UNILAG,

00:51:40.080 --> 00:51:43.680
there was 57,000 students,

00:51:43.760 --> 00:51:45.920
but there were only 8,000 bed spaces.

00:51:46.000 --> 00:51:53.240
Whenever there\'s a new hostel built
by donation or Tetfund,

00:51:53.320 --> 00:51:56.160
the school privatises it
and turns it into a business.

00:51:56.240 --> 00:52:00.080
So it\'s more expensive
than the ones outside.

00:52:00.160 --> 00:52:03.360
That has been the trend
for the past 3 to 5 years.

00:52:03.440 --> 00:52:07.960
While the school is offering you
terrible accommodation on one hand,

00:52:08.040 --> 00:52:14.080
they\'re offering expensive and moderate
accommodation on the other hand.

00:52:14.640 --> 00:52:18.800
And we haven\'t been able
to hold them accountable.

00:52:18.880 --> 00:52:20.960
For example the SUG,

00:52:21.040 --> 00:52:24.760
the Student Government Union,
is non-existent in UNILAG right now.

00:52:24.840 --> 00:52:26.640
- In U.I neither!
- (Audience murmurs)

00:52:26.720 --> 00:52:31.920
It\'s the trend that in any university
where the student\'s body is active,

00:52:32.000 --> 00:52:36.280
the school eliminates it
because they see it as a threat.

00:52:36.360 --> 00:52:41.600
Every year,
the institutions get more powerful,

00:52:41.680 --> 00:52:45.200
and the students that these institutions
were created to serve

00:52:45.920 --> 00:52:49.240
get short-changed,
more and more.

00:52:49.840 --> 00:52:53.320
I found it really profound
when you talked about...

00:52:54.040 --> 00:52:57.000
how one gets desensitized
from the everyday.

00:52:57.080 --> 00:52:59.520
I think that happens to all of us.

00:52:59.600 --> 00:53:01.920
That\'s why your work
is really important.

00:53:02.000 --> 00:53:06.040
As you were presenting,
I could hear side comments,

00:53:06.120 --> 00:53:10.400
people saying, \"This is my story,
this is what I live through.\"

00:53:10.480 --> 00:53:12.520
Now we\'re going to take feedback.

00:53:12.600 --> 00:53:14.880
Those comments,
you can bring them here.

00:53:16.200 --> 00:53:17.960
It hasn\'t always been like this.

00:53:18.040 --> 00:53:20.880
The University of Lagos,
for instance,

00:53:20.960 --> 00:53:25.400
UNILAG was
one of the first five universities.

00:53:26.000 --> 00:53:28.280
They called them
\"the first generation universities\".

00:53:28.360 --> 00:53:33.880
The first one was U.I (Ibadan) in 1948,
followed by UNN in 1960,

00:53:33.960 --> 00:53:37.280
UNILAG, ABU, IFE in 1962.

00:53:37.360 --> 00:53:41.960
When these hostels were built
things were moving on fine,

00:53:42.040 --> 00:53:47.080
and you can argue
we had a few Western lecturers.

00:53:47.160 --> 00:53:52.720
I think they started leaving
Nigerian universities in the late 70s,

00:53:52.800 --> 00:53:58.360
and that also coincided
with when the economy was struggling.

00:53:58.440 --> 00:54:01.800
When you look at the facilities
they enjoyed then,

00:54:01.880 --> 00:54:04.400
you ask yourself,
\"How did it get bad?\"

00:54:05.000 --> 00:54:08.760
When we had the first recession,

00:54:09.280 --> 00:54:12.880
I think it was
when Shehu Shagari was in charge,

00:54:12.960 --> 00:54:15.880
between 1979 and 1983,

00:54:15.960 --> 00:54:18.280
that\'s when all this nonsense started.

00:54:18.360 --> 00:54:23.000
And your work is important,

00:54:23.080 --> 00:54:25.920
because my generation
has been short-changed.

00:54:26.000 --> 00:54:28.560
They mess the system up,

00:54:28.640 --> 00:54:32.520
and you said something important
that\'s also happening here.

00:54:32.600 --> 00:54:35.240
When you try to make a case
through any form of arts,

00:54:35.320 --> 00:54:37.680
they tend to suppress it.

00:54:37.760 --> 00:54:42.440
You have done amazing stuff.

00:54:42.520 --> 00:54:44.760
Here, you can\'t
take pictures anyhow.

00:54:45.440 --> 00:54:49.280
More times than not,
these things are very systemic.

00:54:50.120 --> 00:54:54.680
But my own lesson is that
there is no private irresponsibility.

00:54:55.200 --> 00:54:58.120
The average Nigerian has this mindset,

00:54:58.200 --> 00:55:02.040
that when I do nonsense,
when I don\'t have discipline,

00:55:02.120 --> 00:55:07.160
when I don\'t have dignity in that sense,
I\'m affecting myself.

00:55:07.240 --> 00:55:09.080
So that person in the ministry

00:55:09.600 --> 00:55:13.560
is chopping 5 billion
and telling the contractor to write 10.

00:55:14.080 --> 00:55:19.400
We think it\'s a private thing,
and that\'s why this country is this way.

00:55:19.480 --> 00:55:22.920
I was in Ifé at some point
and I was homeless.

00:55:23.000 --> 00:55:27.160
I was literally hanging.
I did not have a place to lay my head.

00:55:27.240 --> 00:55:31.520
I could tell stories about how you can
get homeless in a university system.

00:55:31.600 --> 00:55:34.360
So when Leye says
that they start reforms,

00:55:34.440 --> 00:55:38.720
and people are violently
agreeing or disagreeing,

00:55:38.800 --> 00:55:42.080
those are not reforms,
you don\'t get to the root of the problem.

00:55:42.160 --> 00:55:45.560
These folks, people that
squat other people are helping them.

00:55:45.640 --> 00:55:50.960
Some folks are going to hang on campus.
They would have serious grade problems.

00:55:51.040 --> 00:55:54.120
Some of them would go psycho
because they\'re hanging.

00:55:54.200 --> 00:55:56.560
Do you know how it feels
to be homeless?

00:55:56.640 --> 00:56:01.400
You\'re trying to work in a system
that is already designed to frustrate you,

00:56:01.480 --> 00:56:06.920
then you finish lecture, say 6pm,
and you don\'t know where you\'ll sleep.

00:56:07.440 --> 00:56:10.160
I had situations
that I cannot share here.

00:56:10.240 --> 00:56:15.480
So let us not for example say that,
\"People are used to their suffering.\"

00:56:15.560 --> 00:56:19.720
I agree that at some points
we become our suffering,

00:56:19.800 --> 00:56:23.400
but for most of us, when we become
our suffering, it\'s about survival.

00:56:23.480 --> 00:56:27.360
We need to survive.
We don\'t have any choice but survival.

00:56:27.440 --> 00:56:30.440
So we leave something,
we lose dignity.

00:56:30.520 --> 00:56:35.760
You would trade dignity
on some levels, dash them dignity.

00:56:35.840 --> 00:56:39.200
\"I need to survive.\"

00:56:39.280 --> 00:56:42.240
Survival is valid,
it\'s not something to be sorry for.

00:56:42.320 --> 00:56:47.120
We need to understand
that a lot of us are part of this rot,

00:56:47.200 --> 00:56:52.360
because we all have this mindset,
\"This irresponsibility is private.\"

00:56:52.440 --> 00:56:56.160
\"I\'m just an irresponsible father,
it\'s a private thing.\"

00:56:56.240 --> 00:56:59.640
But all of us have cords,
we\'re connected.

00:56:59.720 --> 00:57:04.560
So your irresponsibility is not just you.
Somebody else is affected.

00:57:04.640 --> 00:57:09.120
I want to end by saying
that there is no private irresponsibility.

00:57:09.200 --> 00:57:11.960
(Mellow jazz)

00:57:57.320 --> 00:57:59.720
(Music continues)

00:58:45.000 --> 00:58:47.000
(Music fades)

00:58:54.360 --> 00:58:56.080
(Male student)
I gave a speech

00:58:56.160 --> 00:59:00.720
where I outlined the problems
the union has taken interest in,

00:59:00.800 --> 00:59:02.760
even before I became president.

00:59:02.840 --> 00:59:05.200
I said, we\'re going to take steps
on them.

00:59:05.840 --> 00:59:08.360
It\'s written in the law books
of the school

00:59:08.440 --> 00:59:11.800
that you can use
your electrical appliances,

00:59:11.880 --> 00:59:14.320
like your hot plates
in your kitchenette.

00:59:15.320 --> 00:59:18.320
And now a counter order was given,

00:59:18.400 --> 00:59:21.160
that porters should seize hot plates

00:59:21.240 --> 00:59:24.200
from the halls of residence,

00:59:24.280 --> 00:59:27.960
and anybody using it
should be ejected from the hall.

00:59:29.200 --> 00:59:30.920
The second one was the issue

00:59:31.000 --> 00:59:34.480
of harassment of students
outside campus.

00:59:34.560 --> 00:59:37.000
It\'s a common issue
for Nigerian policemen to harass.

00:59:37.560 --> 00:59:40.920
Once you cannot provide
a student ID card

00:59:41.000 --> 00:59:43.520
from the University of Ibadan,

00:59:44.720 --> 00:59:49.800
they might collect some amount
from you before they release you.

00:59:50.520 --> 00:59:52.520
The students were angry at that.

00:59:52.600 --> 00:59:55.880
That\'s a fault on the side
of the authorities,

00:59:55.960 --> 01:00:01.480
who refused to issue
student identity cards for two sessions.

01:00:02.680 --> 01:00:08.320
So the Vice-Chancellor felt insulted,

01:00:08.840 --> 01:00:13.280
that I could tell him the problems
while he was seated.

01:00:15.200 --> 01:00:20.320
I knew there would be a confrontation
between students and the authorities.

01:00:20.960 --> 01:00:24.040
So we called a general meeting.
We called it \"congress.\"

01:00:24.760 --> 01:00:28.400
It was resolved
that students were going on a protest.

01:00:29.000 --> 01:00:34.200
The protest went on,
nothing was destroyed, at all.

01:00:35.400 --> 01:00:38.320
Immediately after I was informed that...

01:00:39.200 --> 01:00:41.920
the Vice-Chancellor had announced
the closure of the school.

01:00:43.200 --> 01:00:47.560
The day that followed,
there was a school senate meeting,

01:00:47.640 --> 01:00:49.040
It was announced that

01:00:49.120 --> 01:00:51.560
the students union
had been suspended.

01:00:51.640 --> 01:00:56.040
I was accused of different offences,

01:00:56.120 --> 01:00:59.120
that my inauguration speech
was confrontational,

01:00:59.200 --> 01:01:03.760
that I gave directives
to female students to use hot plates,

01:01:03.840 --> 01:01:06.760
against university regulation,
which is not true.

01:01:06.840 --> 01:01:10.760
That I conducted an illegal congress,

01:01:10.840 --> 01:01:13.120
that I led an illegal protest.

01:01:14.120 --> 01:01:18.160
On the basis of all of these things,
I was suspended.

01:01:20.200 --> 01:01:21.920
Two years.

01:01:27.640 --> 01:01:30.240
We should eat some groundnuts.
What do you think?

01:01:31.240 --> 01:01:33.280
Groundnuts are necessary.

01:01:33.960 --> 01:01:36.360
Wait, I\'m the one paying ?

01:01:38.560 --> 01:01:41.800
(Indistinct chatter)

01:01:44.480 --> 01:01:46.200
Sell us five cups.

01:01:46.800 --> 01:01:48.400
- How much is it ?
- ₦50.

01:01:48.480 --> 01:01:50.720
For each cup?
Sell four cups then.

01:01:51.320 --> 01:01:53.440
(Laughter)

01:02:03.320 --> 01:02:06.440
Just barely 24 hours after the protest,

01:02:06.520 --> 01:02:10.920
peaceful protest,
no incidence of violence whatsoever,

01:02:11.000 --> 01:02:13.960
the commissioner of police
threatened me...

01:02:14.040 --> 01:02:18.360
He threatened to shoot students
and I would pick up dead bodies.

01:02:18.440 --> 01:02:21.960
I mean, a commissioner
threatening students that way...

01:02:22.040 --> 01:02:26.240
Another conspiracy
between the society and the academia.

01:02:26.320 --> 01:02:29.040
We got our results last Friday.

01:02:29.120 --> 01:02:33.440
We\'ve graduated from university,
many have completed our first clearance.

01:02:34.160 --> 01:02:38.000
There\'s nothing the university
can do to victimise you.

01:02:38.080 --> 01:02:42.160
I sent an article
about his suspension to the group,

01:02:42.240 --> 01:02:44.720
the kind of comments that it generated,

01:02:45.600 --> 01:02:50.600
you still see fear in many classmates
and I was surprised.

01:02:50.680 --> 01:02:53.080
What more can they do to you
at this level?

01:02:53.160 --> 01:02:55.840
You\'re registered for NYSC,
you\'re graduated

01:02:55.920 --> 01:02:58.800
and you\'re still scared to speak up!

01:02:58.880 --> 01:03:01.160
\"Let\'s mind our business!\"

01:03:01.240 --> 01:03:03.360
I was infuriated.

01:03:03.440 --> 01:03:05.880
You see this relationship
to management?

01:03:05.960 --> 01:03:10.040
Check 2 years after
the proscription of the students union,

01:03:10.120 --> 01:03:14.440
how much maladministration
have we experienced?

01:03:14.520 --> 01:03:18.120
Before we used to have 2 weeks
to prepare for exams.

01:03:18.200 --> 01:03:23.080
Last year, you finish your classes
and the week after you\'re writing exams.

01:03:23.160 --> 01:03:27.160
Hostel fees that used to be ₦14,000,

01:03:27.240 --> 01:03:31.920
doubled the amount
and nobody could say anything.

01:03:33.600 --> 01:03:37.600
We are practising civil rule,

01:03:37.680 --> 01:03:39.880
not democracy.

01:03:39.960 --> 01:03:43.840
- (Student) What do you mean?
- That the military is not in power.

01:03:43.920 --> 01:03:47.280
But the people in power
rule like the military...

01:03:47.360 --> 01:03:48.680
Thank you.

01:03:48.760 --> 01:03:52.080
...with the military apparatus
intimidating people.

01:03:59.000 --> 01:04:01.200
(Upbeat mellow jazz)

01:04:11.320 --> 01:04:13.440
(Birds chirping)

01:04:25.520 --> 01:04:27.480
(Music fades)

01:04:32.080 --> 01:04:34.520
(Chanting fades in)

01:04:36.160 --> 01:04:39.560
(Female student) It\'s almost 5 months
that students have been prevented

01:04:39.640 --> 01:04:41.840
from receiving lectures

01:04:41.920 --> 01:04:45.320
due to the Academic Staff Union
of University\'s strike.

01:04:46.600 --> 01:04:50.720
(Male student) We will keep agitating
till our voices are heard.

01:04:50.800 --> 01:04:55.840
It is so sad that without agitation
these people will not listen to us.

01:04:55.920 --> 01:04:59.880
A governor of a state, name\'s withheld,
posted the other day,

01:04:59.960 --> 01:05:04.120
congratulating his child graduating
from a school abroad, in the UK.

01:05:04.200 --> 01:05:08.360
We all saw it from our houses
and we are pained.

01:05:08.440 --> 01:05:12.960
The schools that these people attend
abroad are public universities.

01:05:13.040 --> 01:05:15.960
But our public universities here
are trash.

01:05:16.040 --> 01:05:18.720
(News reporter) The students who block
the Jalingo-Wukari federal highway

01:05:18.800 --> 01:05:20.600
to make their voice heard,

01:05:20.680 --> 01:05:23.240
say that by virtue
of the prolonged strike,

01:05:23.320 --> 01:05:25.560
they have established
their own university

01:05:25.640 --> 01:05:28.000
called Street University.

01:05:28.080 --> 01:05:30.520
While describing the attitude
of the federal government

01:05:30.600 --> 01:05:34.680
towards the yearnings
of ASUU as frustrating, bitter

01:05:34.760 --> 01:05:37.080
and a setback
to the academic calendar

01:05:37.160 --> 01:05:39.440
of public universities
across the country...

01:05:41.440 --> 01:05:43.440
(Muffled chanting fades in)

01:06:01.240 --> 01:06:03.920
(Chanting)

01:06:30.400 --> 01:06:32.800
(Car horns beeping)

01:06:34.560 --> 01:06:37.080
(Clamour)

01:06:48.480 --> 01:06:50.240
(Chanting)
Ibadan, say \"Yeah, Yeah !\"

01:06:50.320 --> 01:06:51.920
(Crowd) Yeah, yeah.

01:06:52.000 --> 01:06:54.000
Ibadan, say \"Yeah, Yeah !\"

01:06:54.080 --> 01:06:55.400
(Crowd) Yeah, yeah.

01:06:55.480 --> 01:06:58.320
If you\'re from Ibadan make some noise.

01:07:00.160 --> 01:07:02.600
We want to end corruption.

01:07:03.440 --> 01:07:05.880
We want to end embezzlement.

01:07:06.720 --> 01:07:09.520
We want to end bad roads.

01:07:10.120 --> 01:07:12.560
We are tired of staying at home.

01:07:15.680 --> 01:07:18.960
We will sleep here anyway,
I don\'t have any work.

01:07:19.040 --> 01:07:22.360
\"Lazy Nigerian youth,
jobless Nigerian youth.\"

01:07:22.440 --> 01:07:25.600
You don\'t give us any job, do you?

01:07:25.680 --> 01:07:31.240
75% of Nigerian youth
are fucking jobless.

01:07:31.320 --> 01:07:32.960
We will sleep on the road.

01:07:33.040 --> 01:07:35.960
Even us, the creative ones, they kill us,
a bunch of maniacs!

01:07:37.560 --> 01:07:40.000
They say wearing dreadlocks
makes us bad boys.

01:07:42.160 --> 01:07:44.280
(Upbeat music and singing)

01:07:53.360 --> 01:07:56.400
What we\'re simply saying is
\"Nigerian police reform\".

01:07:56.480 --> 01:08:01.560
If they cannot assure us of reforming
the police, no need to have a police.

01:08:02.080 --> 01:08:05.000
What we have is
a British colonial system of police.

01:08:05.520 --> 01:08:09.920
According to the law, a man is innocent
until he\'s been proven guilty.

01:08:10.000 --> 01:08:12.200
But in Nigeria they use force on you.

01:08:12.840 --> 01:08:15.720
What we\'re saying is,
reform the police in totality.

01:08:15.800 --> 01:08:18.280
Some policemen are not paid well.

01:08:18.360 --> 01:08:21.400
Some live like beggars on the street.

01:08:21.480 --> 01:08:26.720
Some bought their uniform themselves,
some their shoes.

01:08:26.800 --> 01:08:29.760
So why should we live
with that kind of policemen

01:08:29.840 --> 01:08:32.880
whose mental psychology is so down?

01:08:32.960 --> 01:08:36.120
Either they reform the police,
come up with legislation,

01:08:36.200 --> 01:08:40.000
come up with ways
to reform the Nigerian police.

01:08:42.440 --> 01:08:44.840
(Loud clamour and gunfire)

01:08:47.120 --> 01:08:48.720
(Man) See!

01:08:49.440 --> 01:08:51.400
They\'ve shot so many people!

01:08:55.440 --> 01:08:57.840
Soldiers just killed someone now.

01:09:00.080 --> 01:09:02.840
They just killed someone now...

01:09:02.920 --> 01:09:04.840
They just shot someone now...

01:09:04.920 --> 01:09:06.880
Lekki, Lekki!

01:09:07.760 --> 01:09:10.280
Soldiers came and started killing.

01:09:10.360 --> 01:09:13.200
See, they\'ve killed so many already.

01:09:17.440 --> 01:09:21.840
(News reporter) There are now fears
of an unconfirmed number of fatalities.

01:09:21.920 --> 01:09:24.760
Before this all started,
we have reports

01:09:24.840 --> 01:09:29.080
that the CCTV cameras
and the lights at the scene were put off.

01:09:29.160 --> 01:09:32.480
And then the security
operatives fired shots

01:09:32.560 --> 01:09:35.520
resulting in people scampering to safety.

01:09:36.280 --> 01:09:38.800
But the video that you see right now

01:09:38.880 --> 01:09:41.920
is from a popular Nigerian disc jockey

01:09:42.000 --> 01:09:44.360
who was broadcasting live
on Instagram

01:09:44.440 --> 01:09:47.960
from the scene of the protest
at the Lekki Toll Plaza.

01:09:48.040 --> 01:09:51.920
From the chaotic scene
are disturbing pictures

01:09:52.000 --> 01:09:55.160
of some persons shot
and others injured.

01:09:55.240 --> 01:09:57.240
This is coming from the incident

01:09:57.320 --> 01:10:00.560
shortly after armed operatives
fired shots.

01:10:01.880 --> 01:10:03.880
(Woman)
This is somebody that survived.

01:10:03.960 --> 01:10:06.880
They shot the person\'s leg.

01:10:06.960 --> 01:10:10.880
Other people have been shot and killed.

01:10:10.960 --> 01:10:15.560
If anybody can assist us,
if you live close to Lekki Gate,

01:10:15.640 --> 01:10:19.480
please, I don\'t know, maybe a group
can come, if you can help.

01:10:19.560 --> 01:10:23.240
Be your brother\'s keeper,
they need to remove this bullet,

01:10:23.320 --> 01:10:27.160
so that they don\'t cut it,
so it doesn\'t get infected.

01:10:27.960 --> 01:10:30.320
(Man) A number of people,

01:10:30.400 --> 01:10:35.280
we have their names
because it has been publicly declared

01:10:35.360 --> 01:10:37.800
that they died as a result
of police brutality.

01:10:38.560 --> 01:10:41.000
We are coming out peacefully

01:10:41.080 --> 01:10:44.840
to remember their souls,
so they will never be forgotten.

01:10:46.440 --> 01:10:48.400
Many more have died

01:10:48.480 --> 01:10:51.200
due to police brutality
but we don\'t know their names.

01:10:51.720 --> 01:10:54.600
To the souls of such as...

01:10:55.320 --> 01:10:58.760
Emmanuel Egbo,
would you repeat after me?

01:10:58.840 --> 01:11:00.840
(Crowd)
Emmanuel Egbo.

01:11:01.520 --> 01:11:05.360
(Man, then repeated by crowd)
Modebayo Awosina.

01:11:05.440 --> 01:11:08.840
(Man, then repeated by crowd)
Godsgift Ferguson.

01:11:08.920 --> 01:11:11.880
(Man, then repeated by crowd)
Chinedu Ani.

01:11:11.960 --> 01:11:14.920
(Man, then repeated by crowd)
Tiyamiyu Kazeem.

01:11:15.000 --> 01:11:17.760
(Man, then repeated by crowd)
Chima Ikwunado,

01:11:17.840 --> 01:11:21.000
(Man, then repeated by crowd)
Gabriel Ojo.

01:11:21.080 --> 01:11:24.360
(Man, then repeated by crowd)
Johnson Kolade.

01:11:24.440 --> 01:11:27.320
(Man, then repeated by crowd)
Femi Bello.

01:11:27.400 --> 01:11:30.560
(Man, then repeated by crowd)
Jimoh Isiaq.

01:11:31.520 --> 01:11:34.800
(Man)
Just at Iwo Road here, some time ago,

01:11:34.880 --> 01:11:39.160
a particular Yemi Alade
was killed by SARS.

01:11:39.240 --> 01:11:42.400
These and many more
that we cannot mention their names,

01:11:42.480 --> 01:11:44.960
may the souls of the departed
rest in peace.

01:11:46.240 --> 01:11:48.960
May the souls of the departed
rest in peace.

01:11:49.760 --> 01:11:52.360
May the souls of the departed
rest in peace.

01:11:53.080 --> 01:11:56.480
And together we say,
no to police brutality!

01:11:56.560 --> 01:11:58.760
(Crowd)
No to police brutality!

01:11:58.840 --> 01:12:00.600
(Man)
No to police brutality!

01:12:00.680 --> 01:12:02.680
(Crowd)
No to police brutality!

01:12:02.760 --> 01:12:05.600
(Man)
Louder: no to police brutality!

01:12:05.680 --> 01:12:07.720
(Crowd)
No to police brutality!

01:12:08.360 --> 01:12:12.480
What do you want?
What do you want?

01:12:12.560 --> 01:12:14.280
End SARS!

01:12:17.240 --> 01:12:20.760
Listen, I\'m just handsome.
You can see my swag.

01:12:20.840 --> 01:12:24.120
You can see my jacket!
You can see my shoes!

01:12:24.200 --> 01:12:27.200
This is a fine boy Cheddar speaking,
look at my swag!

01:12:27.280 --> 01:12:29.440
I\'m not a thief.

01:12:29.520 --> 01:12:32.320
How can you have the guts
to ask me

01:12:32.400 --> 01:12:34.520
where\'s my phone,
where\'s my laptop?

01:12:34.600 --> 01:12:37.600
I\'m a real Yahoo boy,
you can see everything.

01:12:39.960 --> 01:12:43.080
(Indistinct chatter)

01:12:45.040 --> 01:12:48.040
- Where was this?
- This was at Iwo Road.

01:12:48.640 --> 01:12:53.160
I know Iwo Road to be very busy,
full of cars...

01:12:53.800 --> 01:12:57.480
People describe the space
as being very dangerous.

01:12:57.560 --> 01:13:01.080
I think it\'s chaotic, coming from Lagos.

01:13:01.160 --> 01:13:03.440
But that night

01:13:04.760 --> 01:13:06.800
there was a certain level of solidarity

01:13:06.880 --> 01:13:09.240
that I had never experienced
at Iwo Road.

01:13:09.320 --> 01:13:12.960
Every person melded so well,
and it was just for a cause.

01:13:13.040 --> 01:13:17.040
To mourn a lot of our young people
that have been killed,

01:13:17.120 --> 01:13:20.160
brutalised by SARS.

01:13:20.960 --> 01:13:22.800
There was food,

01:13:22.880 --> 01:13:28.360
er... sponsored by
different people, drinks...

01:13:28.440 --> 01:13:32.720
and we cleaned up the place
after we ended.

01:13:32.800 --> 01:13:35.720
We had different people doing stuff,

01:13:35.800 --> 01:13:42.280
for the same cause,
people who never met before.

01:13:42.360 --> 01:13:45.360
But again,
I think there is a flaw in the way...

01:13:45.440 --> 01:13:48.560
the protest failed.

01:13:50.720 --> 01:13:54.640
Anything that doesn\'t have a leadership
is bound to fail.

01:13:54.720 --> 01:13:58.560
Now, this is two-pronged
in the sense that

01:13:58.640 --> 01:14:04.560
if there were a recognised leadership
organising the protests across Nigeria,

01:14:04.640 --> 01:14:09.680
it would be easy to broker a deal
with them, to infiltrate their ranks.

01:14:10.800 --> 01:14:14.240
That contributed to the success
of the protest,

01:14:14.320 --> 01:14:16.400
based on how long it lasted.

01:14:16.480 --> 01:14:17.600
But again,

01:14:17.680 --> 01:14:21.880
by the time the military disbanded
the protesters with the shooting,

01:14:21.960 --> 01:14:25.960
there wasn\'t any concrete leadership
that could come out with evidence

01:14:26.040 --> 01:14:31.040
to counter both the Ministry
of Information and the Military

01:14:31.120 --> 01:14:33.960
that were saying that nobody was killed.

01:14:34.040 --> 01:14:38.120
You have the likes of DJ Switch
trying to make speeches

01:14:38.200 --> 01:14:42.000
and people are countering her,
\"Where are the dead bodies?\"

01:14:42.080 --> 01:14:46.480
I don\'t think that anything is over,
I think this is a waiting period.

01:14:46.560 --> 01:14:50.920
Personally, I invested a lot of energy

01:14:51.800 --> 01:14:54.400
and emotions
into the EndSARS movement

01:14:54.480 --> 01:14:56.640
to document, to be a part of it.

01:14:57.680 --> 01:15:02.960
The way the protest was interrupted
with the shooting had an effect on me,

01:15:03.680 --> 01:15:05.440
I didn\'t work for a while,

01:15:05.520 --> 01:15:10.880
I just stayed in my house
for 2 or 3 months.

01:15:10.960 --> 01:15:13.080
It was really traumatising..

01:15:13.160 --> 01:15:19.000
I have to share my experience.
That night, when the shooting happened

01:15:19.080 --> 01:15:24.200
It was at Lekki
but in Ibadan everywhere was silent.

01:15:25.200 --> 01:15:28.360
The whole country, people felt it.

01:15:28.440 --> 01:15:33.480
After that day, I had a traumatic period,
I went to Ghana for a while.

01:15:34.440 --> 01:15:37.880
From December, I stayed in Ghana
just to recuperate,

01:15:37.960 --> 01:15:40.640
it was so devastating.
For the first time

01:15:40.720 --> 01:15:45.280
we could bring our hearts into something
and put a lot of energy into it.

01:15:45.360 --> 01:15:49.120
- We were just begging for a better life
- All we wanted was a dialogue.

01:15:49.200 --> 01:15:55.120
The response was so animalistic,
it was unimaginable.

01:15:55.200 --> 01:15:57.440
(Bustling traffic)

01:15:59.040 --> 01:16:01.080
(Woman)
Buy masks!

01:16:02.840 --> 01:16:04.560
Don\'t forget your masks!

01:16:08.520 --> 01:16:10.520
(Horn playing)

01:16:32.440 --> 01:16:34.440
(Horn stops)

01:16:40.480 --> 01:16:42.720
(Indistinct chatter)

01:16:59.640 --> 01:17:03.720
(Male student) So basically this month,
we have decided to address

01:17:03.800 --> 01:17:08.160
protest and resistance
and addressing the memory of EndSARS.

01:17:08.720 --> 01:17:13.000
- Since it will be a year by October 20...
- Next week.

01:17:13.080 --> 01:17:17.400
that the Lekki massacre happened,
which the government is still denying.

01:17:18.240 --> 01:17:22.280
So we decided to curate films
that speak to the situation.

01:17:23.160 --> 01:17:28.440
So this Thursday, we\'ll be screening
\"West Indies\" by Med Hondo,

01:17:28.520 --> 01:17:30.120
the Mauritanian filmmaker.

01:17:30.200 --> 01:17:33.960
So the idea is to look at
the history of violence.

01:17:34.040 --> 01:17:38.160
Not just to contextualise it
within post-colonial violence,

01:17:38.240 --> 01:17:43.760
but to look at it as something
that has been there during colonial time.

01:17:43.840 --> 01:17:48.120
And the week after, we\'ll screen
\"Handsworth Songs\" by John Akomfrah,

01:17:48.200 --> 01:17:50.240
a Ghanaian-British filmmaker.

01:17:51.000 --> 01:17:57.360
In this film, he documents
the Birmingham protest in 1985

01:17:57.440 --> 01:18:05.200
and this protest was caused by
high-handedness of the British police

01:18:05.280 --> 01:18:07.520
and the racist policy
of Margaret Thatcher.

01:18:08.600 --> 01:18:10.880
So there was the protest
in Birmingham

01:18:10.960 --> 01:18:13.680
and the week after
another one in Brixton

01:18:13.760 --> 01:18:17.200
that was necessitated
by the police shooting of a woman.

01:18:17.280 --> 01:18:19.760
I can\'t remember the name.

01:18:19.840 --> 01:18:22.640
If you remember clearly
during EndSARS also,

01:18:22.720 --> 01:18:26.440
the EndSARS movement started

01:18:26.520 --> 01:18:29.600
because a young boy
was killed in a hotel.

01:18:29.680 --> 01:18:33.600
2 days later we recorded another death
and people were like \"This is enough.\"

01:18:33.680 --> 01:18:37.680
I find a parallel between

01:18:37.760 --> 01:18:41.440
John Akomfrah\'s film
and the EndSARS itself.

01:18:41.520 --> 01:18:45.840
The idea of the film is to depict exactly
what happened during EndSARS.

01:18:45.920 --> 01:18:48.120
(Chains clinking)

01:19:13.240 --> 01:19:16.200
(Narrator speaking in French)
Factories were built,

01:19:16.280 --> 01:19:18.920
private fortunes amassed,
public treasuries were filled,

01:19:19.000 --> 01:19:23.600
cities modernised
and the merchant class rose to power.

01:19:23.680 --> 01:19:26.960
Those were consequences in Europe

01:19:27.040 --> 01:19:30.480
of 300 years
of the Negro slave trade.

01:19:31.080 --> 01:19:33.440
(Unsettling music)

01:20:19.360 --> 01:20:21.360
(Unsettling music stops)

01:20:21.880 --> 01:20:25.120
If you want to be a freedom fighter

01:20:25.200 --> 01:20:28.640
and you are not prepared
to perish or die,

01:20:29.560 --> 01:20:32.280
most likely it\'s just a mirage.

01:20:33.000 --> 01:20:37.440
And when you look at,
even people present here,

01:20:37.520 --> 01:20:40.680
you realise that what divides us

01:20:41.360 --> 01:20:44.280
is actually more than what unites us.

01:20:44.880 --> 01:20:48.120
When issues of nation building comes

01:20:49.120 --> 01:20:53.360
it is the so-called intellectuals
that bring ethnicity into it,

01:20:54.280 --> 01:20:56.440
that bring religion into it,

01:20:56.520 --> 01:21:01.520
that bring gender dichotomies
and other topics.

01:21:03.160 --> 01:21:04.680
(Clears throat)

01:21:06.120 --> 01:21:08.960
Someone,
the first person who spoke

01:21:09.040 --> 01:21:13.360
was talking about smartness
amongst those who rule.

01:21:13.960 --> 01:21:15.960
I disagree with that.

01:21:16.600 --> 01:21:18.480
They are not smart.

01:21:18.560 --> 01:21:22.840
Otherwise... except you want to say,
once you are powerful,

01:21:22.920 --> 01:21:24.520
then you are smart.

01:21:24.600 --> 01:21:28.920
What they have is power
and what we don\'t have is power.

01:21:29.760 --> 01:21:33.840
You see,
confrontation must be organised

01:21:33.920 --> 01:21:36.800
\'cause historically the police
has always been there.

01:21:36.880 --> 01:21:40.480
Throughout the world,
the police has always played that role

01:21:40.560 --> 01:21:44.960
of breaking strikes, breaking protests

01:21:45.040 --> 01:21:49.880
you know,
no matter how peaceful it might be.

01:21:49.960 --> 01:21:53.800
And one thing I see
with the EndSARS movement

01:21:54.600 --> 01:22:00.640
is that... er, yes, it happened.
We used technology.

01:22:00.720 --> 01:22:03.840
We were successful,
we mobilised ourselves,

01:22:03.920 --> 01:22:08.520
for the first time I saw political
consciousness among young people.

01:22:08.600 --> 01:22:13.040
However,
I might not be popular with this,

01:22:13.120 --> 01:22:15.120
but I feel we should seek power.

01:22:15.960 --> 01:22:17.560
We have to seek power.

01:22:17.640 --> 01:22:22.360
We cannot be tired, unlike the pessimist
who spoke just recently.

01:22:22.440 --> 01:22:23.840
(Gentle laughter)

01:22:25.080 --> 01:22:28.080
I warn everyone to be aware of the time.

01:22:28.160 --> 01:22:31.320
Did you notice the date
on that documentary?

01:22:31.400 --> 01:22:33.360
What date was it?

01:22:33.440 --> 01:22:35.880
1985.
how many years ago was that?

01:22:37.080 --> 01:22:40.720
That\'s 37 years ago...
About 36 years ago.

01:22:40.800 --> 01:22:43.560
This is 2021.
That was 36 years ago.

01:22:43.640 --> 01:22:45.000
Right?

01:22:45.080 --> 01:22:48.240
What are the conversations
going on right now in England?

01:22:48.320 --> 01:22:50.160
They\'re still talking about Windrush,

01:22:50.240 --> 01:22:55.680
police brutality
against black and brown people, right?

01:22:55.760 --> 01:22:59.960
They\'re still discussing
how there\'s disproportionate poverty

01:23:00.600 --> 01:23:05.720
and lower education statuses
within the black and brown community

01:23:05.800 --> 01:23:08.000
35 years later.

01:23:08.080 --> 01:23:14.040
So the lesson from that is that...
you people are too impatient.

01:23:14.120 --> 01:23:18.040
You\'ve barely done anything
and you already want results,

01:23:18.120 --> 01:23:20.880
so relax.
That\'s number one.

01:23:20.960 --> 01:23:22.840
- (Gentle laughter)
- (Fingers clicking)

01:23:22.920 --> 01:23:25.560
Number two...

01:23:27.240 --> 01:23:30.720
...power isn\'t important
at this point.

01:23:30.800 --> 01:23:34.160
You need to understand
what you\'re working on.

01:23:34.240 --> 01:23:36.440
Uncle is talking
about \"gender dichotomy\".

01:23:36.520 --> 01:23:41.920
That means you don\'t understand.
You need to recognise the differences.

01:23:42.000 --> 01:23:47.600
For example, I\'m Yorùbá,
I\'m a major ethnic group in Nigeria.

01:23:47.680 --> 01:23:50.960
I need to understand what it is
that the Ijaw needs.

01:23:51.040 --> 01:23:54.080
I need to
understand what it is that, erm...

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See, I have to think about the names
of the minority groups.

01:23:57.680 --> 01:24:01.000
That alone is a problem
you have to consider.

01:24:01.080 --> 01:24:04.400
So don\'t tell me the intellectuals talk
about the differences.

01:24:04.480 --> 01:24:06.080
You need to talk about it

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because they\'d have specific needs
that we need to address to progress.

01:24:10.760 --> 01:24:13.600
Of course we gonna bring up gender.

01:24:14.280 --> 01:24:18.720
Of course we\'re gonna discuss sexuality
because one of the issues with EndSARS

01:24:18.800 --> 01:24:21.480
was you telling queer people
to keep quiet.

01:24:22.520 --> 01:24:26.840
I work for a queer organisation.
But I\'m straight.

01:24:26.920 --> 01:24:30.040
Do you know how many people
we bail out of jail?

01:24:30.120 --> 01:24:33.640
Do you know how worried we are
about them getting raped,

01:24:34.360 --> 01:24:38.680
them getting assaulted, sodomised
before we get them out of jail?

01:24:40.040 --> 01:24:42.280
Even me, \"gender dichotomy\".

01:24:42.360 --> 01:24:45.600
If you go to prison
and I go to prison,

01:24:45.680 --> 01:24:47.560
who is going to get raped?

01:24:47.640 --> 01:24:52.240
Who is more likely to come out
with a bad experience,

01:24:52.320 --> 01:24:54.680
even if it\'s just one night
I spend in jail.

01:24:55.360 --> 01:24:57.880
Please, differences matter

01:24:57.960 --> 01:25:02.400
because we have to consider
how everyone is going to be affected.

01:25:03.400 --> 01:25:06.120
It\'s not about,
\"Let\'s get into politics now.\"

01:25:06.200 --> 01:25:08.280
I understand
that we need to get power

01:25:08.360 --> 01:25:11.560
but like I said, get that education,
get that critical mass

01:25:11.640 --> 01:25:14.280
because you need people behind you.

01:25:14.360 --> 01:25:17.520
That\'s what gives you the power,
that\'s what gave them the power.

01:25:17.600 --> 01:25:20.680
Yes, they did it by paying people off

01:25:20.760 --> 01:25:23.880
but people are starting to understand
that money isn\'t enough.

01:25:23.960 --> 01:25:28.640
So we need to take advantage
of that understanding and expand on it.

01:25:30.080 --> 01:25:32.080
Teach them more things.

01:25:32.160 --> 01:25:37.800
Let them understand, say it in Yorùbá,
say it in Ìgbò, in Ibibio... in Ebira.

01:25:39.480 --> 01:25:42.680
You know what I mean?
That\'s where we are at.

01:25:42.760 --> 01:25:44.760
(Upbeat music)

01:25:44.840 --> 01:25:48.040
(♪ \"Mr Follow Follow\", Fela Kuti)

01:25:48.120 --> 01:25:50.600
Some dey follow-follow,
dem close dem sense

01:25:50.680 --> 01:25:53.240
♪ (dem close sense, biri-biri)

01:25:53.320 --> 01:25:55.960
♪ Some dey follow-follow,
dem close dem eye

01:25:56.040 --> 01:25:58.120
♪ (dem close eye, pin-pin-pin)

01:25:58.200 --> 01:26:01.160
♪ Some dey follow-follow,
dem close dem mouth

01:26:01.240 --> 01:26:03.560
♪ (dem close mouth,
pam-pam-pam)

01:26:03.640 --> 01:26:06.280
♪ Some dey follow-follow,
dem close dem ear

01:26:06.360 --> 01:26:08.640
♪ (dem close ear,
g\'boing-boing-boing)

01:26:08.720 --> 01:26:11.280
♪ Some dey follow-follow,
dem close dem sense

01:26:11.360 --> 01:26:13.400
♪ (dem close sense, biri-biri)

01:26:13.480 --> 01:26:15.560
♪ I say dem close sense

01:26:16.240 --> 01:26:18.520
♪ Say dem close sense

01:26:18.600 --> 01:26:20.640
♪ If you dey follow-follow

01:26:21.280 --> 01:26:26.080
♪ Make you open eye,
open mouth, open sense

01:26:26.720 --> 01:26:28.960
♪ If you dey follow-follow

01:26:29.040 --> 01:26:33.640
♪ Make you open sense,
open ear, open mouth

01:26:34.600 --> 01:26:39.000
♪ Na that time,
na that time you no go fall

01:26:39.560 --> 01:26:41.320
♪ Na that time...

01:26:42.440 --> 01:26:45.120
♪ My brother,
make you no follow book-o

01:26:45.720 --> 01:26:50.400
♪ Look am and go your way
(follow-follow)

01:26:50.480 --> 01:26:52.400
♪ If you dey make you follow-follow
(follow-follow)

01:26:52.480 --> 01:26:55.360
♪ Make you open eye
(follow-follow)

01:26:55.440 --> 01:26:57.440
♪ If you dey follow-follow
(follow-follow)

01:26:57.520 --> 01:27:00.200
♪ Make you open sense
(follow-follow)

01:27:00.280 --> 01:27:02.440
♪ If you dey follow-follow
(follow-follow)

01:27:02.520 --> 01:27:05.480
♪ Make you open eye
(follow-follow)

01:27:05.560 --> 01:27:07.520
♪ If you dey follow-follow
(follow-follow)

01:27:07.600 --> 01:27:10.680
♪ Make you open sense
(follow-follow)...

01:27:42.680 --> 01:27:44.080
(Song fades)

01:27:44.160 --> 01:27:46.480
Subtitles for the D/deaf
and hard of hearing by Day for Night

01:27:53.840 --> 01:27:56.040
(Mellow upbeat jazz)

01:27:56.120 --> 01:27:59.040
(♪ \"L\'incorruptible est mort\", Apkass)