The most awaited movie of this year in Nigeria, "Half of a Yellow Sun," has been banned by the country's
film censorship board because the movie partially takes place during the Biafran War.
Mr. Bandele said officials seemed to be "jittery about its
content." He continued: "That it deals with
the Biafran War (from 1967 to 1970). That it might incite people to violence." Even today a
remnant of the old Igbo independence movement persists in the country's south, which is largely Christian.
And in the north,
where Muslims are in the majority, many
people attribute the Nigerian Army's frequentthe Biafran War (from 1967 to 1970). That it might incite people to violence." Even today a
remnant of the old Igbo independence movement persists in the country's south, which is largely Christian.
large-scale killings of civilians, in its campaign against the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram, to southerners' lingering fury over their treatment during the long-ago war. though the movie is currently showing in Britain and next month will be in the US. I think its cool, but what do you think?
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