Evelyn Enakimio

SAT 29.5.2010 16:30-16:45, Mekong Stage, Railway Square

Ihria Enakimio discusses his documentary films portraying the development of democracy in Nigeria and the impact the state of affairs has on the everyday lives of people:

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.