0:00:28 > 0:00:30TRUMPET FANFARE
0:00:30 > 0:00:32- TV REPORTER: - 'Lagos, capital of Nigeria,
0:00:32 > 0:00:35'prepares to give the welcome of its life to Queen Elizabeth II.
0:00:35 > 0:00:38'Or, in its own language, to Oba Oberin, the King-Lady.
0:00:39 > 0:00:41'A million Nigerians are here to greet her.
0:00:41 > 0:00:44'Just 17 hours from the mists of London airport,
0:00:44 > 0:00:46'the Queen's Argonaut comes to rest in the sunshine of Ikeja,
0:00:46 > 0:00:48'the airport of Lagos.
0:00:48 > 0:00:51'The Guard of Honour is mounted by the Nigeria Regiment,
0:00:51 > 0:00:54'many of whom, like the Queen's husband, wear the Burma Star.'
0:00:54 > 0:00:57ROUSING MARCHING MUSIC
0:00:59 > 0:01:01'Governor General Sir James Robertson and Lady Robertson
0:01:01 > 0:01:03'welcome the royal couple as they leave the Argonaut.
0:01:08 > 0:01:11'In a temperature around the 100 mark, the queen still looks cool
0:01:11 > 0:01:14'as the royal car makes its 13-mile journey to the capital
0:01:14 > 0:01:16'at a steady 8mph.
0:01:16 > 0:01:20'Every foot of the way, the road is packed with Nigerians.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23'The welcome is as tremendous as any Her Majesty has ever been given,
0:01:23 > 0:01:24'and it's a proud welcome.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27'For this is no longer a people in colonial subjection,
0:01:27 > 0:01:31'but a free nation with its feet already firmly on the road to self-government.'
0:01:31 > 0:01:34MUSIC: The Naughty Little Flea Miriam Makeba
0:01:34 > 0:01:37# Where did the naughty little flea go?
0:01:37 > 0:01:40# Won't somebody tell me?
0:01:40 > 0:01:44# Where did the naughty little flea go?
0:01:44 > 0:01:46# Won't somebody tell me?
0:01:46 > 0:01:50# Tell me now, where did the naughty little flea go?
0:01:50 > 0:01:52# Nobody know, nobody know
0:01:52 > 0:01:57# Tell me now, where did the naughty little flea go?
0:01:57 > 0:02:00# Nobody know, nobody know
0:02:00 > 0:02:03# There was a naughty little flea
0:02:03 > 0:02:06# He climbed up on the doggie's knee
0:02:06 > 0:02:10# He climbed some here He climbed some there
0:02:10 > 0:02:13# He was climbing everywhere
0:02:13 > 0:02:16# Tell me, where did the naughty little flea go?
0:02:16 > 0:02:18# Somebody tell me
0:02:18 > 0:02:19# Oh, nobody know
0:02:19 > 0:02:22# Where did the naughty little flea go?
0:02:22 > 0:02:23# Somebody tell me
0:02:23 > 0:02:25# Nobody know, nobody know
0:02:25 > 0:02:29# Well, he climbed some here He climbed some there
0:02:29 > 0:02:32# He was climbing everywhere
0:02:32 > 0:02:36# And now at last he found a nest
0:02:36 > 0:02:38# Where he can get some food and rest
0:02:38 > 0:02:42# Well, the doggie went to see a show
0:02:42 > 0:02:45# And there he saw Brigitte Bardot
0:02:45 > 0:02:49# The naughty flea said, "What a feast!
0:02:49 > 0:02:52# "She really is a delicious beast"
0:02:52 > 0:02:55# Tell me, where did the naughty little flea go?
0:02:55 > 0:02:58# Nobody know, nobody know
0:02:58 > 0:03:01# Tell me, now, where did the naughty little flea go?
0:03:01 > 0:03:04# Nobody know, nobody know
0:03:04 > 0:03:08# Tell me, now, where did the naughty little flea go? #
0:03:09 > 0:03:11CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:03:13 > 0:03:15This programme contains some violent scenes
0:03:15 > 0:03:17and some scenes of a sexual nature.
0:03:18 > 0:03:20- WOMAN:- Happy Independence Day!
0:03:39 > 0:03:42- KAINENE:- Are you going to help dad get his contracts?
0:03:42 > 0:03:44What do you mean?
0:03:48 > 0:03:51Will you be spreading your legs for the Right Honourable Minister
0:03:51 > 0:03:53in exchange for daddy's contract?
0:03:54 > 0:03:55What do you think?
0:03:55 > 0:03:58Hurry up, you two. His Excellency's here.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01- We'll be right down, Mum. - Help me with this, will you?
0:04:10 > 0:04:14I hope you've thought about coming to join us at the Ministry, Olanna.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17We need first-class brains like yours.
0:04:17 > 0:04:21How many people get offered jobs personally from the Finance Minister?
0:04:21 > 0:04:24I've decided to go to Nsukka. I'll be leaving next week.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27Is that right? You have decided to move to Nsukka?
0:04:27 > 0:04:30I applied for a job as a lecturer in the Department of Sociology
0:04:30 > 0:04:31and I got it.
0:04:33 > 0:04:34Oh?
0:04:35 > 0:04:38So you'll be leaving Lagos?
0:04:42 > 0:04:46Er...why don't you all come to my house this weekend, eh?
0:04:46 > 0:04:48If only to sample my cook's fish pepper soup.
0:04:48 > 0:04:52The chap is from Nembe, he knows what to do with fresh fish.
0:04:52 > 0:04:54Sounds wonderful, Honourable Minister.
0:04:54 > 0:04:57I'd love to come, but I won't be here this weekend.
0:04:57 > 0:04:58You won't be here?
0:04:58 > 0:05:02I made plans to go to Kano to see Uncle Mbaezi and the family.
0:05:02 > 0:05:03I see.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06And what about you, Kainene?
0:05:06 > 0:05:07What about me, indeed?
0:05:07 > 0:05:11I, too, will be putting my newly acquired degree to good use.
0:05:11 > 0:05:14I'm moving to Port Harcourt to manage daddy's businesses there.
0:05:14 > 0:05:18So Kainene will manage the cement factory?
0:05:18 > 0:05:20The cement factory, the bottling company,
0:05:20 > 0:05:23the sawmills and the freight carriers, everything.
0:05:23 > 0:05:27She'll oversee everything in the east.
0:05:27 > 0:05:31Whoever said you lost out by having twin daughters is a liar.
0:05:31 > 0:05:32- FATHER:- Thank you, Minister.
0:05:32 > 0:05:34Happy Independence Day!
0:05:36 > 0:05:37ALL: Happy Independence Day!
0:05:37 > 0:05:39- BOTH:- Happy Independence Day.
0:05:41 > 0:05:45- Are you all set? - All set for what, Kainene?
0:05:45 > 0:05:46It's Independence Day, Mummy.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49There are 1,001 soirees in Lagos tonight.
0:05:49 > 0:05:50Good evening, Chief.
0:05:57 > 0:06:01You realise, don't you, that you've just cost daddy the contract?
0:06:01 > 0:06:03It's not as if he'll get nothing.
0:06:03 > 0:06:06Daddy will still give him 10% after all.
0:06:06 > 0:06:09Well, the 10% is standard, so extras always help.
0:06:09 > 0:06:12The other bidders probably don't have a beautiful daughter.
0:06:18 > 0:06:21That horrid little woman, Richard, and right in my face, too.
0:06:21 > 0:06:25- QUIETLY:- Susan, I wasn't. - I know you didn't mean to flirt.
0:06:25 > 0:06:29- But you must understand... - Susan, I wasn't flirting.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31- Champagne, Madam? - The gossip here is just vicious.
0:06:31 > 0:06:34How are you, Olanna?
0:06:34 > 0:06:36Happy Independence Day.
0:06:38 > 0:06:40The Hausa in the north are a dignified lot,
0:06:40 > 0:06:43the Yoruba are rather jolly, as well as being first-rate lickspittles.
0:06:43 > 0:06:45- And the Igbo are... - Surly and money-loving.
0:06:45 > 0:06:46Hello, Graham.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49Meet Kainene Ozobia, Chief Ozobia's daughter.
0:06:49 > 0:06:52Kainene is a summa cum laude graduate of Yale
0:06:52 > 0:06:54and an Oxford graduate to boot.
0:06:54 > 0:06:56Kainene, this is Susan Grenville-Pitts,
0:06:56 > 0:06:58- from the British Council. - How do you do?- And this is...
0:06:58 > 0:07:01- I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch... - Richard. Richard Churchill.
0:07:01 > 0:07:03Now, I want to speak to you.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07Hello.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09I'm no relation of Sir Winston's, I'm afraid,
0:07:09 > 0:07:12or I might've turned out a little cleverer.
0:07:12 > 0:07:14How funny.
0:07:14 > 0:07:17JAZZ BAND PLAYS IN BACKGROUND
0:07:17 > 0:07:19Great music, don't you think?
0:07:24 > 0:07:28It turns out Kainene and I have a mutual friend in London.
0:07:28 > 0:07:32How lovely. I'll let you two catch up then. Back in a bit.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36You just lied to your wife.
0:07:36 > 0:07:39She's not my wife.
0:07:39 > 0:07:41- Move out of the way, please.- What?
0:07:41 > 0:07:44There is a photographer behind you who's keen to take a photo of me,
0:07:44 > 0:07:46and particularly my necklace.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48- MAN:- Thank you, Ma'am.
0:07:48 > 0:07:51The necklace will be featured in tomorrow's "Lagos Life".
0:07:51 > 0:07:54That will be my way of contributing to our newly independent country.
0:07:54 > 0:07:57I'm giving fellow Nigerians something to aspire to,
0:07:57 > 0:07:59an incentive to work hard.
0:07:59 > 0:08:03- It's a lovely necklace. - Of course it's not lovely!
0:08:03 > 0:08:05My father has obscene taste in jewellery.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07But it's his money.
0:08:09 > 0:08:12I see my sister looking for me. I should go.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14Don't go...
0:08:14 > 0:08:15please.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21Shall I introduce you? Everybody wants to meet her.
0:08:22 > 0:08:25I'd rather talk to you. If you don't mind.
0:08:27 > 0:08:31- Here comes the wife you denied. - Darling?
0:08:31 > 0:08:34- How lovely to meet you. - How lovely to meet you.
0:08:34 > 0:08:36(What did I just say?)
0:08:41 > 0:08:43Don't tell me you're interested in him.
0:08:43 > 0:08:46- What if I was?- What about Okafor?
0:08:46 > 0:08:48You know that ended long ago. Now we're just good friends.
0:08:48 > 0:08:51- And Iain with the dimples? - No, it's over with Iain.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54- Robert!- Robert is history.
0:08:54 > 0:08:57No, he's here. Hello, Robert!
0:08:57 > 0:09:00Ha-bloody-ha! You're not funny.
0:09:00 > 0:09:02SHE GIGGLES
0:09:03 > 0:09:06I just don't get what you see in these English boys.
0:09:06 > 0:09:08Watch out, though. This one is married.
0:09:08 > 0:09:12No. That's just a woman who doesn't know when to cut her losses.
0:09:12 > 0:09:14Did he say as much?
0:09:30 > 0:09:31Operator?
0:09:33 > 0:09:36For you, Ma'am. Mr Churchill on the line.
0:09:36 > 0:09:37Churchill?
0:09:40 > 0:09:43Hello? Who is this?
0:09:43 > 0:09:46It's me, Richard.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49- We met last night at...- 'Yes.'
0:09:49 > 0:09:52The man who denied his wife. Hello, Richard.
0:09:53 > 0:09:56MUSIC AND RAUCOUS LAUGHTER
0:10:12 > 0:10:16SINGING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE
0:10:30 > 0:10:33Did you come to Nigeria to run away from something?
0:10:34 > 0:10:36No.
0:10:38 > 0:10:39I've always wanted to see Africa...
0:10:41 > 0:10:45..so I took leave from "The Spectator"
0:10:45 > 0:10:47and a generous loan from my aunt and...
0:10:47 > 0:10:49- And here you are.- Here I am.
0:10:49 > 0:10:53A modern-day explorer of the "Dark Continent".
0:11:00 > 0:11:06I've accepted an offer to join the Faculty of English at Nsukka.
0:11:06 > 0:11:08Splendid. My sister's there.
0:11:08 > 0:11:11She'll introduce you to her revolutionary lover
0:11:11 > 0:11:13and his band of drinkers.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16And you can come visit me in Port Harcourt.
0:11:33 > 0:11:37Ah, I can't believe it's you. You've come to help.
0:11:40 > 0:11:43All right. Let's go to Aunt Ifeka's.
0:11:43 > 0:11:45SCREAMS OF DELIGHT
0:11:50 > 0:11:52You have been on my mind.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55I knew you would come and see us soon.
0:11:55 > 0:11:57Uncle, good afternoon.
0:11:57 > 0:12:01And how is Lagos treating my sister?
0:12:01 > 0:12:04- Lagos is treating mother well. - And your sister and your father?
0:12:04 > 0:12:07- How is your father?- Daddy is well.
0:12:07 > 0:12:09Kainene is well.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11See who is here!
0:12:11 > 0:12:15- Ah!- Olanna!- My auntie!
0:12:19 > 0:12:22- How is your mother?- She's good.
0:12:22 > 0:12:23Oh!
0:12:23 > 0:12:26May another person do for you.
0:12:28 > 0:12:31May another person do for you.
0:12:31 > 0:12:33Ahh...
0:12:33 > 0:12:35Cousin!
0:12:35 > 0:12:37You should've warned us that you were coming.
0:12:37 > 0:12:40At least we would've swept the yard better.
0:12:40 > 0:12:43- Cousin, you look well.- Thank you.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45There are stories to tell.
0:12:45 > 0:12:48So you are going to Nsukka to marry Odenigbo, Sister?
0:12:48 > 0:12:51I don't know about marriage yet, but I want to be closer to him.
0:12:51 > 0:12:53And I want to teach.
0:12:53 > 0:12:55The way you describe him, you had better not wait!
0:12:59 > 0:13:02- ODENIGBO:- A special woman is arriving this weekend.
0:13:02 > 0:13:03Very special.
0:13:05 > 0:13:09Make sure the house is clean. I'll order the food from the staff club.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11But, sah, I can cook.
0:13:11 > 0:13:14She likes her rice a certain way. Fried rice, I think.
0:13:14 > 0:13:16I'm not sure you can make something suitable.
0:13:16 > 0:13:18I can make that, sah. Let me make the rice.
0:13:18 > 0:13:22And you get the chicken from the staff club.
0:13:22 > 0:13:24Artful negotiation.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26All right, you make the rice.
0:13:26 > 0:13:29- Did you go to school? - Standard two, sah.
0:13:29 > 0:13:33- But I learn everything fast. - Standard two? How long ago?
0:13:33 > 0:13:36Many years now, sah. But I learn everything very fast.
0:13:36 > 0:13:38- Why did you stop school? - My father's crops failed, sah.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41Why didn't your father find someone to lend him your school fees?
0:13:41 > 0:13:44Sah?
0:13:44 > 0:13:47I will enrol you in the staff primary school.
0:13:47 > 0:13:48Yes, sah. Thanks, sah.
0:13:48 > 0:13:51I suppose you'll be the oldest, starting standard three at your age.
0:13:51 > 0:13:54But the only way to get their respect is to be the best.
0:13:54 > 0:13:56- Understand me?- Yes, sah.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58- What's your name again? - Ugwu, sah.
0:13:58 > 0:14:00Ugwu...
0:14:00 > 0:14:03Yes. Call me Odenigbo.
0:14:03 > 0:14:05Sah?
0:14:05 > 0:14:08My name is not "Sah".
0:14:08 > 0:14:09Call me Odenigbo.
0:14:39 > 0:14:40It's quite tasteless.
0:14:41 > 0:14:44Which is better than bad-tasting, of course.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50I'll show you how to cook rice properly, Ugwu,
0:14:50 > 0:14:52without using so much oil.
0:14:58 > 0:15:01- Ugwu told me he could cook rice. - He can't.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06My God.
0:15:06 > 0:15:08Quick, drink coke.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11SEXUAL MOANS
0:15:34 > 0:15:37You should eat first. Ugwu is making a stew.
0:15:38 > 0:15:40I know what I want to eat.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49So, what happened here?
0:15:49 > 0:15:51Your older books are in the second bedroom.
0:15:51 > 0:15:53I needed the space for my books.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56- Why can't they go to your flat? - Because I want them here.
0:15:58 > 0:16:01You've really moved in, haven't you?
0:16:05 > 0:16:07KNOCKING AT DOOR
0:16:07 > 0:16:09- UGWU:- We have visitors, sah.
0:16:09 > 0:16:11- Can't they leave? MAN:- Odenigbo!
0:16:11 > 0:16:15- I can't wait for them to meet you. - MAN:- Is she here? Come out, now!
0:16:15 > 0:16:17Stay just a little longer.
0:16:17 > 0:16:21- MAN:- Ugwu, go and fetch your master. Tell him to come out now.
0:16:28 > 0:16:31My friends. This, finally, is Olanna.
0:16:31 > 0:16:32How are you?
0:16:32 > 0:16:34You must be Lara Adebayo. Faculty of Medicine?
0:16:34 > 0:16:37Yes. He did not tell us you were illogically beautiful.
0:16:37 > 0:16:40- I will take that as a compliment. - And what a proper English accent.
0:16:40 > 0:16:43I'm Okeoma. I thought Odenigbo's girlfriend was a human being.
0:16:43 > 0:16:46- He didn't tell us you a water mermaid.- Thank you.
0:16:46 > 0:16:50- Victor Patel. Nice to see you finally.- Olanna.
0:16:50 > 0:16:52- And what's your discipline? - Sociology.
0:16:52 > 0:16:55Voodoo science! You should've studied one of the proper sciences.
0:16:55 > 0:16:58Didn't the great thinker Hegel call Africa a land of childhood?
0:16:58 > 0:17:00Nobody can take Hegel seriously. Have you read him closely?
0:17:00 > 0:17:03He's funny, he's very funny.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08KNOCKING AT DOOR
0:17:11 > 0:17:13You are the one that is Ugwu. How are you?
0:17:13 > 0:17:16I'm fine, Mama. Did your journey go well?
0:17:16 > 0:17:18Yes. God led us.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22- How are you?- I'm well, Mama.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24My son has told me how well you're doing.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29- When will my son be back? - They will return in the evening.
0:17:29 > 0:17:32They said you should rest, Mama, when you come.
0:17:32 > 0:17:34I'm cooking rice and chicken.
0:17:36 > 0:17:37Rest?
0:17:43 > 0:17:49I have brought ingredients to make proper soup for my son.
0:17:49 > 0:17:51I know you try, but you are only a boy.
0:17:53 > 0:17:56What does a boy know about real cooking?
0:17:56 > 0:18:00Is that not so, Amala? Does a boy belong in the kitchen?
0:18:00 > 0:18:02Mama, no.
0:18:02 > 0:18:06You see, Ugwu? A boy does not belong in the kitchen.
0:18:06 > 0:18:08Yes, Mama.
0:18:11 > 0:18:17Eh? My son wastes money on these expensive things.
0:18:17 > 0:18:20- Do you not see, Amala? - Yes, Mama.
0:18:20 > 0:18:24Those belong to my madam, Mama. She brought many things from Lagos.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27SHE SIGHS
0:18:27 > 0:18:31- Amala, come and make the cocoyams. - Yes, Mama.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37Mama, welcome! Nno!
0:18:40 > 0:18:43I'm Olanna. Did you go well?
0:18:43 > 0:18:46- Our journey went well. - Good afternoon.
0:18:46 > 0:18:49Is this Odenigbo's relative from home, Mama?
0:18:49 > 0:18:51Amala helps me in the house.
0:18:51 > 0:18:54Come, Mama, let's sit.
0:18:54 > 0:18:58You shouldn't bother in the kitchen. You should rest. Let Ugwu do it.
0:18:58 > 0:19:01I want to cook a proper soup for my son.
0:19:02 > 0:19:04Of course, Mama.
0:19:06 > 0:19:08At least let me help you, Mama.
0:19:10 > 0:19:12I'll go and change.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14I hear you did not suck your mother's breasts.
0:19:17 > 0:19:18What?
0:19:18 > 0:19:21They say you did not suck your mother's breasts.
0:19:23 > 0:19:25Please go and tell those who sent you
0:19:25 > 0:19:28that you did not see my son.
0:19:28 > 0:19:32Tell your fellow witches that you did not see him! Do you hear me?
0:19:32 > 0:19:36Tell them that nobody's medicine can work on my son.
0:19:36 > 0:19:38He will not marry an abnormal woman,
0:19:38 > 0:19:40unless you kill me first.
0:19:40 > 0:19:43Only over my dead body!
0:19:43 > 0:19:44Mama...
0:19:44 > 0:19:46Don't "mama" me. I said, do not "mama" me.
0:19:48 > 0:19:50Leave my son alone.
0:19:50 > 0:19:53Go and tell your fellow witches that you did not see him!
0:19:57 > 0:20:00- Neighbours! - Ugwu Mama, will you stay inside?
0:20:00 > 0:20:03Neighbours! There is a witch in my son's house!
0:20:04 > 0:20:06Neighbours!
0:20:09 > 0:20:11Tell your master I've gone to my flat.
0:20:11 > 0:20:13Neighbours!
0:20:32 > 0:20:34I'm so sorry she acted that way.
0:20:34 > 0:20:38- I just had to leave. - No, no. You didn't have to, Nkem.
0:20:38 > 0:20:40You should've ignored her, really.
0:20:45 > 0:20:48I've decided to talk to Okeoma about the Labour Strike.
0:20:48 > 0:20:51- We have to show support... - Your mother made a scene.
0:20:53 > 0:20:54You're angry, Nkem?
0:20:56 > 0:20:59I didn't think you'd take this so seriously.
0:20:59 > 0:21:02You can see my mother doesn't know what she's doing.
0:21:02 > 0:21:04She's just a village woman.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09You never talk about your mother.
0:21:09 > 0:21:12You've never asked me to come to Abba with you to visit her.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14Stop it, Nkem ,it's not as if I go that often to see her,
0:21:14 > 0:21:18and I did ask you the last time you were going to Lagos. Huh?
0:21:20 > 0:21:21- What did you cook?- Rice.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26- Aren't you going to play tennis? - I thought you would come.
0:21:26 > 0:21:27I don't feel up to it.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31Why is your mother's behaviour acceptable
0:21:31 > 0:21:33because she's a village woman?
0:21:33 > 0:21:35I know village women who do not behave this way!
0:21:35 > 0:21:39My mother's entire life has been in Abba.
0:21:39 > 0:21:42Do you know what a small bush village that is?
0:21:42 > 0:21:44Of course she'll feel threatened by an educated woman
0:21:44 > 0:21:46living with her son. Of course you'd have to be a witch!
0:21:46 > 0:21:48It's the only way she can understand it.
0:21:48 > 0:21:50- Did you talk to her about this? - I didn't see the point.
0:21:50 > 0:21:54- You didn't see the point?! - I want to catch Okeoma at the club.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56Let's discuss this when I get back.
0:21:56 > 0:21:57- I'll stay here tonight.- No.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02- What?- I said no.
0:22:02 > 0:22:04What's wrong with you, Olanna?
0:22:04 > 0:22:08Go. Go and play your tennis and don't come back!
0:22:17 > 0:22:19PHONE RINGS
0:22:21 > 0:22:22Olanna?
0:22:22 > 0:22:24Did something happen?
0:22:24 > 0:22:26OLANNA: 'Nothing happened.
0:22:26 > 0:22:29'I just wanted to say hello, find out how you are.'
0:22:31 > 0:22:35How's Nsukka? How's your revolutionary lover?
0:22:35 > 0:22:38'Odenigbo is fine. Nsukka is fine.'
0:22:38 > 0:22:40Richard seems taken by it.
0:22:40 > 0:22:45He even seems taken by the revolutionary, but I forgive him.
0:22:45 > 0:22:47'You should come and visit.'
0:22:47 > 0:22:49Soon.
0:22:49 > 0:22:51You sound rather subdued.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54Are you sure nothing's happened?
0:22:54 > 0:22:56Out with it, Olanna.
0:22:56 > 0:22:59'It's nothing much. Just a little misunderstanding with...'
0:22:59 > 0:23:00The revolutionary?
0:23:00 > 0:23:03'No. His mother.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06'But there's nothing to it. Really.'
0:23:32 > 0:23:34You reek of brandy.
0:23:34 > 0:23:36Are you still angry?
0:23:37 > 0:23:40Get dressed, we'll go back together.
0:23:42 > 0:23:43I will talk to Mama.
0:23:44 > 0:23:47No, you don't have to do that.
0:23:49 > 0:23:51Stay here.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08If you won't marry me...
0:24:09 > 0:24:11..let's have a child.
0:24:17 > 0:24:19Let's have a child, Nkem.
0:24:21 > 0:24:24A little girl...just like you.
0:24:27 > 0:24:30We'll call her Obianuju.
0:24:32 > 0:24:36Because she will come into a place where there is plenty.
0:24:38 > 0:24:39Or a little boy.
0:24:44 > 0:24:46Let's have breakfast in bed.
0:24:46 > 0:24:49Or is this one of your Sundays of faith?
0:24:49 > 0:24:52I won't go in today.
0:24:52 > 0:24:53Good.
0:24:54 > 0:24:56Because we have work to do.
0:25:06 > 0:25:08We will have a beautiful child, Nkem.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12We will have a brilliant child.
0:25:13 > 0:25:18- RADIO:- 'Our enemies are the political profiteers, the swindlers...'
0:25:18 > 0:25:22Nkem! It's happened. There's been a coup.
0:25:22 > 0:25:24Major Nzeogwu is speaking from Kaduna.
0:25:26 > 0:25:27What's happening in Lagos?
0:25:27 > 0:25:29Did they say what's happening in Lagos?
0:25:29 > 0:25:32Your parents are fine. Civilians are safe.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34Operator...
0:25:34 > 0:25:37- It's not going through.- They're fine. It's just for security.
0:25:37 > 0:25:40The lines will come back once they've fully taken control of the government.
0:25:40 > 0:25:41LAUGHTER
0:25:41 > 0:25:44- Those soldiers are true heroes. - This is the end of corruption.
0:25:44 > 0:25:48That's the Finance Minister. They said he shit in his trousers before they shot him.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51I knew Okonji. He was a friend of my father's.
0:25:51 > 0:25:55The BBC is calling it an Igbo coup. And they have a point.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57It was mostly Northerners who were killed, after all.
0:25:57 > 0:25:59It was mostly Northerners in government.
0:25:59 > 0:26:02The BBC should ask who put the Northerners in government
0:26:02 > 0:26:03to dominate everybody.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05If we had more men like Major Nzeogwu,
0:26:05 > 0:26:07we would not be where we are today.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09- Isn't he a communist? - MEN LAUGH
0:26:09 > 0:26:11- ODENIGBO:- You Americans are so predictable.
0:26:11 > 0:26:13Do we have time to worry about that?
0:26:13 > 0:26:17- TV REPORTER:- 'The coup did not succeed in Lagos itself.
0:26:17 > 0:26:21'Those politicians that survived asked the army to take control.
0:26:21 > 0:26:24'And Major General Ironsi, an Igbo, took over.
0:26:24 > 0:26:27'He concentrated authority in Lagos
0:26:27 > 0:26:29'and cut down the power of the regions.
0:26:29 > 0:26:32'It looked as if the Igbos were beginning to run the whole country
0:26:32 > 0:26:34'and the north was suspicious.'
0:26:47 > 0:26:51MAMA SINGING NATIVE SONG
0:26:53 > 0:26:57My son told me you had gone to the village to see your mother?
0:26:57 > 0:27:01Yes, Mama. Welcome, Mama. Welcome, Auntie Amala.
0:27:01 > 0:27:04Go and rest, Ugwu. I am preparing my son's dinner.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06I will stay in case you need help, Mama.
0:27:08 > 0:27:10Do you cook Ofe Nsala well?
0:27:10 > 0:27:14- I have never cooked it. - Why? My son likes it.
0:27:14 > 0:27:16My madam has never asked me to cook it.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19"Madam." She is not your madam, my child.
0:27:19 > 0:27:21She's only a woman who's living with a man
0:27:21 > 0:27:24who has not paid her bride price.
0:27:24 > 0:27:27Richard, did you say you were going to Lagos tomorrow?
0:27:27 > 0:27:30Yes. Yes, I am.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32To give Kainene moral support?
0:27:32 > 0:27:34Not quite, Lara.
0:27:34 > 0:27:38It's Chief Ozobia's 60th birthday, and they're having a party at...
0:27:38 > 0:27:40See? Richard is a gentleman.
0:27:40 > 0:27:43He's going all the way to Lagos to give Kainene, who doesn't need it,
0:27:43 > 0:27:45moral support.
0:27:45 > 0:27:47And you, what are you doing
0:27:47 > 0:27:50when Olanna has had to rush to Lagos all by herself?
0:27:50 > 0:27:53How's your book coming along?
0:27:53 > 0:27:56- I'm ploughing on. - It's a novel, isn't it?
0:27:56 > 0:27:58- Yes. ODENIGBO:- More wine?
0:27:58 > 0:28:00Yes, please.
0:28:00 > 0:28:03Odenigbo, you're not trying to get me drunk, are you?
0:28:03 > 0:28:05What's it about?
0:28:05 > 0:28:08As soon as it's finished, you'll be the first to read it.
0:28:08 > 0:28:11Ugwu, more wine!
0:28:11 > 0:28:12Ugwu!
0:28:12 > 0:28:14I brought fresh palm wine for my son.
0:28:14 > 0:28:18Our best wine-tapper brought it to me this morning.
0:28:18 > 0:28:20Ugwu!
0:28:22 > 0:28:25MAMA SINGS TRADITIONAL SONG
0:28:31 > 0:28:33My point is, the only authentic identity for an African
0:28:33 > 0:28:35is his tribe.
0:28:35 > 0:28:37I am a Nigerian because the white man created Nigeria
0:28:37 > 0:28:40and gave me that identity, and I am black
0:28:40 > 0:28:42because the white man constructed black
0:28:42 > 0:28:44to be as different from his white as humanly possible.
0:28:44 > 0:28:47But I was Igbo before the white man came.
0:28:47 > 0:28:50But you became aware that you were Igbo because of the white man.
0:28:50 > 0:28:53- The Pan-Igbo idea itself...- Go ask your elders in your village!
0:28:53 > 0:28:56The problem is that Odenigbo is a hopeless tribalist,
0:28:56 > 0:28:57we need to keep him quiet.
0:28:57 > 0:28:59I will go powder my nose.
0:29:02 > 0:29:04Sorry, Richard.
0:29:17 > 0:29:19She doesn't look as though she wants to go home today.
0:29:19 > 0:29:21Sure you're not planning to do something with her?
0:29:21 > 0:29:23- Don't talk rubbish. - Nobody in Lagos would know.
0:29:23 > 0:29:25Look, look, look.
0:29:25 > 0:29:29- I know you're not interested in her.- I'm not. And that's that.
0:29:33 > 0:29:35THUNDER RUMBLES
0:29:40 > 0:29:43SEXUAL MOANS
0:30:03 > 0:30:05I can't wait for Tuesday.
0:30:05 > 0:30:06I can't wait either.
0:30:07 > 0:30:10Tell Ugwu to air the rug in the bedroom.
0:30:10 > 0:30:12- 'Why?'- Why what?
0:30:14 > 0:30:16'Why do you want the rug in the bedroom aired?'
0:30:16 > 0:30:19Because it hasn't been aired for some time.
0:30:21 > 0:30:24You sound so glum. Are you all right?
0:30:26 > 0:30:29'Oh, my mother is here. I had no idea she was coming.'
0:30:29 > 0:30:33- Will she be gone before Tuesday? - 'I don't know.
0:30:33 > 0:30:37- 'I wish you were here.' - Well, I'm glad I'm not.
0:30:37 > 0:30:39Did you have a conversation with her
0:30:39 > 0:30:42about breaking the spell of the educated witch?
0:30:42 > 0:30:44'I'll talk to her, Nkem...
0:30:45 > 0:30:46'I'm sorry.
0:30:48 > 0:30:50'I'm so sorry.'
0:30:53 > 0:30:55- Richard.- Yes, dear?
0:30:55 > 0:30:59You were in Nsukka two days ago. You saw the revolutionary.
0:30:59 > 0:31:01Did you notice anything unusual about him?
0:31:01 > 0:31:05Was he anything other than his smug, self-righteous self?
0:31:05 > 0:31:09I'm not waiting till Tuesday. I'm leaving for home today.
0:31:09 > 0:31:12Olanna, do you want me to come with you?
0:31:17 > 0:31:19Let me come with you.
0:31:19 > 0:31:20No.
0:31:20 > 0:31:22KNOCK AT DOOR
0:31:27 > 0:31:29Nkem?
0:31:29 > 0:31:32Nkem. What a pleasant surprise.
0:31:32 > 0:31:35It's good to have you back. So good.
0:31:35 > 0:31:39- Good afternoon, Mama. - Olanna, how are you?
0:31:39 > 0:31:42Mama and Amala are just leaving. I'm taking them to the motor park.
0:31:42 > 0:31:45Amala, how are you? I didn't know you came, too.
0:31:45 > 0:31:47Have you got your things? Come on, let's go.
0:31:47 > 0:31:51- Have you eaten, Mama?- My morning meal is still in my stomach.
0:31:51 > 0:31:53- I have a game scheduled for later.- Amala?
0:31:53 > 0:31:55- I hope you ate something. - Yes, Auntie, thank you.
0:31:55 > 0:31:56Let's go.
0:31:56 > 0:31:59Give Amala the key to put things in the car.
0:32:01 > 0:32:03OK.
0:32:05 > 0:32:07- Go well.- Mm-hmm.
0:32:13 > 0:32:16- UGWU:- Mah, will you eat? Should I warm rice?
0:32:16 > 0:32:18Not now.
0:32:18 > 0:32:20Go and see if any avocados are ripe.
0:32:20 > 0:32:22Yes, ma'am.
0:32:51 > 0:32:52Did anything happen?
0:32:54 > 0:32:58Yes. Yes, indeed.
0:32:58 > 0:33:00One of my students missed the last test,
0:33:00 > 0:33:04and this morning he tried to offer me money to pass him,
0:33:04 > 0:33:06the ignoramus.
0:33:09 > 0:33:11I didn't know Amala came with Mama.
0:33:13 > 0:33:15Yes.
0:33:20 > 0:33:21You touched Amala?
0:33:25 > 0:33:27You touched Amala?!
0:33:31 > 0:33:33Olanna...
0:33:35 > 0:33:37Olanna.
0:33:37 > 0:33:39PHONE RINGS
0:33:47 > 0:33:50PHONE CONTINUES RINGING
0:34:08 > 0:34:09Nkem?
0:34:14 > 0:34:15Nkem?
0:34:16 > 0:34:20Nkem, please open. Please!
0:34:20 > 0:34:22FRANTIC KNOCKS
0:34:24 > 0:34:25Nkem!
0:34:27 > 0:34:28Nkem, please open!
0:34:30 > 0:34:31Please open, Nkem.
0:34:34 > 0:34:35Nkem!
0:34:37 > 0:34:40Nkem, please. Please open!
0:34:41 > 0:34:43LOUD KNOCKING
0:34:43 > 0:34:44Nkem!
0:34:51 > 0:34:53I was drunk, Nkem.
0:34:55 > 0:34:59I was drunk, and Amala forced herself on me!
0:34:59 > 0:35:04It was brief...rash...lust.
0:35:04 > 0:35:07It meant nothing, Nkem, nothing!
0:35:10 > 0:35:12Get out.
0:35:38 > 0:35:41I think I'm going to postpone my programme at Nsukka
0:35:41 > 0:35:44and stay here in Kano.
0:35:44 > 0:35:46No. Mba.
0:35:46 > 0:35:48You will go back to Nsukka.
0:35:50 > 0:35:52I can't just go back to his house, Auntie.
0:35:52 > 0:35:55I am not asking you to go back to his house.
0:35:55 > 0:35:57I said you will go back to Nsukka.
0:35:57 > 0:36:00Do you not have your own flat and your own job?
0:36:01 > 0:36:05Odenigbo has done what all men do and inserted his penis
0:36:05 > 0:36:08in the first hole he could find when you were away.
0:36:08 > 0:36:10Does that mean somebody died?
0:36:14 > 0:36:17When your uncle first married me,
0:36:17 > 0:36:22I worried because I thought all those women outside
0:36:22 > 0:36:24were coming to displace me from my home.
0:36:26 > 0:36:30I now know that nothing he would ever do would make my life change.
0:36:30 > 0:36:33My life will change only if I want it to change.
0:36:36 > 0:36:38What are you saying, Auntie?
0:36:38 > 0:36:42He is very careful now,
0:36:42 > 0:36:44since he realised I'm no longer afraid.
0:36:46 > 0:36:51I have told him that if he ever brings disgrace to me in any way,
0:36:51 > 0:36:53I will cut off that snake between his legs.
0:36:54 > 0:36:58You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man.
0:36:58 > 0:37:02Do you hear me? Your life belongs to you and you alone.
0:37:02 > 0:37:04SHE SPEAKS IGBO
0:37:07 > 0:37:09You will go back on Saturday.
0:37:11 > 0:37:15Let me hurry up and make some abacha for you to take.
0:37:23 > 0:37:26Would you like to read this?
0:37:26 > 0:37:28Yes. Thank you.
0:37:28 > 0:37:31They have finally removed that Igbo vice-chancellor
0:37:31 > 0:37:34from the University of Lagos, it's on the back cover.
0:37:34 > 0:37:35Oh?
0:37:39 > 0:37:42The problem with the Igbo people is that they want to control everything
0:37:42 > 0:37:44in this country, everything.
0:37:44 > 0:37:47They own all the shops, they control the Civil Service,
0:37:47 > 0:37:49even the police.
0:37:49 > 0:37:53If you are arrested for a crime, as long as you can say "keda",
0:37:53 > 0:37:55they will let you go.
0:37:55 > 0:37:58And now, with this coup, they control the army.
0:37:58 > 0:38:01We say "kedu", not "keda".
0:38:01 > 0:38:03It means, "How are you?"
0:38:03 > 0:38:07- Are you Igbo?- Yes.
0:38:07 > 0:38:09- But you have the face of a Fulani. - Igbo.
0:38:34 > 0:38:36Master looks like somebody that is crying every day...
0:38:36 > 0:38:39- Put my blender in the carton. - Yes, mah.
0:38:42 > 0:38:44Mah, please forgive Master.
0:38:44 > 0:38:46- Put the blender in the car. - Yes, mah.
0:38:50 > 0:38:53Do the guests still come in the evenings?
0:38:53 > 0:38:55Not like before, mah, when you were around.
0:38:55 > 0:38:58- But they still come?- Yes.
0:38:58 > 0:39:02And your master still plays tennis and goes to the staff club?
0:39:02 > 0:39:03Yes.
0:39:05 > 0:39:06Good.
0:39:20 > 0:39:22What is it?
0:39:22 > 0:39:23Amala is pregnant.
0:39:25 > 0:39:26What?
0:39:26 > 0:39:30Mama just came to tell me that Amala is pregnant with my child.
0:39:37 > 0:39:40SHE SOBS
0:39:40 > 0:39:42Please, let me come in.
0:39:46 > 0:39:47Please.
0:39:51 > 0:39:52We will do whatever you want.
0:39:52 > 0:39:54Whatever you want, let's do it together.
0:39:54 > 0:39:57You said it happened just once.
0:39:57 > 0:39:59Just once and she got pregnant.
0:39:59 > 0:40:02- It was just once. - Just once, I see.
0:40:04 > 0:40:07I told Mama I'd send Amala to Dr Okonkwo in Enugu.
0:40:09 > 0:40:12She said it would be over her dead body.
0:40:12 > 0:40:14She said Amala will have the child
0:40:14 > 0:40:16and she will raise the child herself.
0:40:19 > 0:40:21Mama planned this thing from the beginning.
0:40:23 > 0:40:25I see now how she made sure I was dead drunk
0:40:25 > 0:40:27before sending Amala to me.
0:40:29 > 0:40:32I feel as if I have been dropped into something that I...
0:40:32 > 0:40:34I don't entirely understand.
0:40:34 > 0:40:36Nobody dropped you into anything!
0:40:54 > 0:40:56SHE SOBS
0:41:27 > 0:41:28- I thought it was you.- Oh!
0:41:28 > 0:41:31How are you? Are you all right?
0:41:31 > 0:41:34I'm very well.
0:41:34 > 0:41:37I can't decide whether to get the Bordeaux or the Burgundy.
0:41:37 > 0:41:39Can I help?
0:41:40 > 0:41:43Why don't I buy both and if you'll share them with me,
0:41:43 > 0:41:46we can decide which is better.
0:41:46 > 0:41:48Can you spare an hour? Or do you have to run back to your writing?
0:41:48 > 0:41:51I would hate to impose on you, really.
0:41:51 > 0:41:54Of course you wouldn't be imposing.
0:41:54 > 0:41:56Besides, you've never visited me...
0:41:58 > 0:41:59..in my flat.
0:42:07 > 0:42:10You really must write about the horrific things
0:42:10 > 0:42:12the British did in Kenya.
0:42:12 > 0:42:15Didn't they cut off testicles?
0:42:15 > 0:42:16- Didn't they?- Yes.
0:42:18 > 0:42:20You should write about it then.
0:42:24 > 0:42:27- Do you have a title for your book? - "The Basket of Hands."
0:42:27 > 0:42:30"The Basket of Hands"...
0:42:30 > 0:42:31Sounds macabre.
0:42:31 > 0:42:34It's about labour. The good things we achieved.
0:42:36 > 0:42:38The railways, for example, but...
0:42:40 > 0:42:43..also how labour was exploited
0:42:43 > 0:42:46and the lengths the colonial enterprise went to.
0:42:57 > 0:43:01- My glass isn't quite empty. - No, it's not.
0:43:11 > 0:43:13Come and sit on the floor with me.
0:43:14 > 0:43:16I should leave.
0:43:26 > 0:43:28MUSIC: Santa Baby by Eartha Kitt
0:43:48 > 0:43:51Do you want anything, mah?
0:43:51 > 0:43:54These look very well. Did you use fertiliser?
0:43:54 > 0:43:56- Yes, mah.- And on the peppers?
0:43:56 > 0:43:58Yes, mah. Mah?
0:43:58 > 0:44:00Mama used bad medicine on my master, mah.
0:44:00 > 0:44:02Rubbish!
0:44:02 > 0:44:04DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES
0:44:06 > 0:44:09MUFFLED SEXUAL MOANS
0:44:19 > 0:44:21Let's get married.
0:44:23 > 0:44:24Mama will leave us alone then.
0:44:27 > 0:44:29I slept with Richard.
0:44:41 > 0:44:42No.
0:44:44 > 0:44:45Yes.
0:45:00 > 0:45:02Do you have feelings for the man?
0:45:03 > 0:45:05No.
0:45:08 > 0:45:10You have no feelings for him, then why?
0:45:18 > 0:45:19Olanna?
0:45:32 > 0:45:34DOOR SLAMS
0:45:35 > 0:45:37HORN BLARING
0:45:41 > 0:45:43TYRES SCREECH
0:45:45 > 0:45:47Is your master in?
0:45:47 > 0:45:50- Is your master in? - RICHARD:- Thank you, Harrison.
0:45:50 > 0:45:53I want you to stay away from my house! Do you understand me?
0:45:53 > 0:45:54Stay away!
0:46:18 > 0:46:20Are we still trying to have a child?
0:46:22 > 0:46:24Of course we are.
0:46:25 > 0:46:27Or aren't we?
0:46:27 > 0:46:30Get me some brandy, my good man.
0:46:48 > 0:46:52Give that to Odenigbo. Tell him Amala has refused to touch her.
0:47:19 > 0:47:21Mama doesn't want to keep the baby.
0:47:21 > 0:47:24There's a young man doing timber work in Ondo
0:47:24 > 0:47:26that Amala is to marry.
0:47:26 > 0:47:28Mama doesn't want to keep the baby?
0:47:31 > 0:47:33She wanted a boy.
0:47:33 > 0:47:36I've spoken to Amala's people.
0:47:36 > 0:47:38We've agreed that the baby will stay with them.
0:47:38 > 0:47:43I'll go to Abba next week to see them and discuss...
0:47:43 > 0:47:45We'll keep her.
0:47:45 > 0:47:48Our relationship is the most important thing to me, Nkem.
0:47:48 > 0:47:51We have to make the right decision for us.
0:47:53 > 0:47:55You weren't thinking about our relationship
0:47:55 > 0:47:57when you got her pregnant.
0:48:01 > 0:48:03Let's think about this.
0:48:12 > 0:48:15- How noble of you. - I'm not being noble.
0:48:15 > 0:48:19- Will you adopt her formally? - Yes, I think so.
0:48:19 > 0:48:21What will you tell her?
0:48:21 > 0:48:24- What will I tell her? - Yes, when she's older.
0:48:24 > 0:48:28The truth... that Amala is her mother.
0:48:28 > 0:48:31And I'll have her call me Mummy Olanna or something,
0:48:31 > 0:48:34so that if Amala ever comes back, she can be Mummy.
0:48:34 > 0:48:37You're doing this to please the revolutionary.
0:48:37 > 0:48:39- I'm not. - Why are you doing it, then?
0:48:42 > 0:48:44She was so helpless.
0:48:46 > 0:48:48I felt as if I knew her.
0:48:58 > 0:49:00I think this is a very brave decision.
0:49:05 > 0:49:07Will you come back for her christening?
0:49:07 > 0:49:10Yes. Of course, I will.
0:49:10 > 0:49:12- This is excellent, Harrison. - Thank you, madam.
0:49:15 > 0:49:17He doesn't deserve you, you know.
0:49:20 > 0:49:23This tart tastes better than the one I had the last time I was in London.
0:49:23 > 0:49:24Thank you, madam.
0:49:24 > 0:49:27My master is telling me that everybody in Mr Odenigbo's house says the same.
0:49:27 > 0:49:29You made it for them?
0:49:29 > 0:49:31I used to make it for my master to take there,
0:49:31 > 0:49:33but I'm not making anything again for Mr Odenigbo's house
0:49:33 > 0:49:35since that time he's shouting at my master.
0:49:35 > 0:49:38Shouting like a madman and the whole street is hearing.
0:49:38 > 0:49:40The man's head is not correct.
0:50:16 > 0:50:19I hope you won't say, "Forgive me."
0:50:19 > 0:50:21There is nothing more trite.
0:50:24 > 0:50:26Please don't leave.
0:50:26 > 0:50:28Leave?
0:50:28 > 0:50:30That would be too easy, wouldn't it?
0:50:33 > 0:50:35- I'm sorry, Kainene. - It would be forgivable
0:50:35 > 0:50:38if it were somebody else, not my sister!
0:50:41 > 0:50:43I am so sorry.
0:50:47 > 0:50:49You should sleep in the guest room.
0:50:49 > 0:50:52Yes. Yes, of course.
0:50:58 > 0:51:03- TV:- 'In May, Major General Ironsi abolished the regions by decree.
0:51:03 > 0:51:05'This was the last straw for the north.
0:51:05 > 0:51:10'There were riots and Ironsi's regime fell after barely six months.
0:51:10 > 0:51:14'At Ibadan, among northern troops, he was killed.
0:51:14 > 0:51:18'Looting, rioting, ambushing left thousands of Igbos dead.
0:51:18 > 0:51:20'Northerners took advantage of the confusion
0:51:20 > 0:51:23'to work off their long pent up anger at the economic success
0:51:23 > 0:51:26'of the Igbos who migrated into their own region.'
0:51:28 > 0:51:30Anything to declare, sir?
0:51:30 > 0:51:32No. I'm going on to London.
0:51:32 > 0:51:33OK. Well done, sir.
0:51:40 > 0:51:44- RICHARD:- Where are you from? - GUARD:- I'm from Obosi.
0:51:44 > 0:51:48My fiancee is from Umunnachi, not far from you.
0:51:48 > 0:51:52- Your fiancee, sir? - Yes. Her name is Kainene.
0:51:52 > 0:51:55- You speak Igbo, sir? - HE REPLIES IN IGBO
0:51:55 > 0:51:58You speak... My name is Nnaemeka.
0:51:58 > 0:52:01- Nice talking to you... - Thank you, sir.
0:52:01 > 0:52:03MAN SHOUTS
0:52:03 > 0:52:06We have here a little technical difficulty!
0:52:06 > 0:52:10A small problem that can be resolved very simply!
0:52:10 > 0:52:12SPEAKS IN FRENCH
0:52:15 > 0:52:19I want all our foreign visitors together over here.
0:52:30 > 0:52:32HE SPEAKS FRENCH
0:52:32 > 0:52:35SOLDIER: This way, sir.
0:52:35 > 0:52:38Passports! Bring out your passports!
0:52:40 > 0:52:41Where's your passport?
0:52:41 > 0:52:44It's at home, sir. I haven't got it on me here, sir.
0:52:47 > 0:52:49- You are Igbo?- Yes, sir.
0:52:49 > 0:52:52- Come, my brother.- Yes, sir.
0:52:52 > 0:52:54- SOLDIER:- Turn the page.
0:52:54 > 0:52:57Show me your passport!
0:52:57 > 0:52:59- Which church you go to? - I'm Catholic.
0:52:59 > 0:53:02You're Catholic? That's nice. What is the name of the church?
0:53:02 > 0:53:04- Saint Dominic's. - Saint Dominic's, ah...
0:53:04 > 0:53:08Listen, just wait for me a minute over here.
0:53:08 > 0:53:10Passport!
0:53:12 > 0:53:14EVERYONE SCREAMS
0:53:28 > 0:53:30Get up! Come on!
0:53:30 > 0:53:31Move! Right now!
0:53:35 > 0:53:37- WOMAN:- Please, please. Please, don't.
0:53:51 > 0:53:52OK, line them up!
0:53:54 > 0:53:56GUNSHOT
0:54:12 > 0:54:14SCREAMING AND SHOUTING
0:54:16 > 0:54:19OLANNA: Let me out of the car. Stop the car!
0:54:26 > 0:54:28What's happening here? What's happening?
0:54:28 > 0:54:30No, no!
0:54:31 > 0:54:33- Madam!- Auntie!
0:54:35 > 0:54:36Auntie!
0:54:38 > 0:54:40No! Auntie!
0:54:42 > 0:54:45Please, Madam, please. We have to go!
0:54:45 > 0:54:47There's only troubles here. We have to go.
0:54:51 > 0:54:52Murderer!
0:54:54 > 0:54:55Get in the car!
0:54:57 > 0:55:00You have to get in the car. Get in the car!
0:55:00 > 0:55:03We have to go now, Ma'am. I'm sorry. We have to go.
0:55:10 > 0:55:13Please, please, leave us alone. Leave us alone.
0:55:33 > 0:55:35Sorry, Auntie.
0:55:35 > 0:55:37SHE SOBS
0:55:45 > 0:55:47- TV:- 'The Military Governor of the Eastern Region, Colonel Ojukwu,
0:55:47 > 0:55:49'was questioned about the extent of the killing.'
0:55:49 > 0:55:52'I can't give you the total figures, but this I know,
0:55:52 > 0:55:57'that the May 29th rioting
0:55:57 > 0:56:00'did in fact take toll
0:56:00 > 0:56:04'of some 3,300 easterners in the north.
0:56:06 > 0:56:10'I know that on the first night of the September rioting...
0:56:12 > 0:56:16'..in Zaria alone there were 670.
0:56:18 > 0:56:22'In Kano, definitely over 1,000 to 1,500.'
0:56:24 > 0:56:27And what about our university colleagues in Ibadan and Zaria?
0:56:27 > 0:56:30They kept silent while white expatriates encouraged the killing!
0:56:30 > 0:56:33You would be one of them if you didn't happen to be in Igboland!
0:56:33 > 0:56:34How much sympathy can you have?
0:56:34 > 0:56:36Don't dare say I do not have sympathy!
0:56:36 > 0:56:38To say secession is not the only way to security
0:56:38 > 0:56:41- doesn't mean I have no sympathy! - Did your cousins die?
0:56:41 > 0:56:44Did your uncle die? You're going back to your people in Lagos,
0:56:44 > 0:56:46and nobody will harass you for being Yoruba.
0:56:46 > 0:56:49Is it not your own people who are killing the Igbos in Lagos?
0:56:49 > 0:56:51Didn't your chiefs go north to thank the emir
0:56:51 > 0:56:54for sparing the Yoruba people? So what are you saying?
0:56:54 > 0:56:56How is your opinion relevant?
0:56:56 > 0:56:58You insult me, Odenigbo.
0:56:58 > 0:57:00Then the truth has become an insult. Olanna.
0:57:00 > 0:57:03This is unacceptable, Odenigbo. You owe her an apology.
0:57:03 > 0:57:06It is not a question of whether or not I owe her an apology.
0:57:06 > 0:57:09It is a question of whether or not I spoke the truth!
0:57:09 > 0:57:10You owe her an apology!
0:57:10 > 0:57:12All right, I will.
0:57:16 > 0:57:18SHE TUTS
0:57:29 > 0:57:31When you are ready, mah, your food is here.
0:57:37 > 0:57:39What did you cook, Ugwu?
0:57:40 > 0:57:42I used fresh tomatoes from the garden.
0:57:44 > 0:57:47- Has baby eaten? - Yes, mah. She's playing outside.
0:58:09 > 0:58:12- KAINENE:- 'Is love this misguided need to have you beside me
0:58:12 > 0:58:13most of the time?
0:58:13 > 0:58:16'Is love this safety I feel in our silences?
0:58:18 > 0:58:21'Is it this belonging, this completeness?'
0:58:26 > 0:58:29'Operator, I'd like to make a trunk call, please.'
0:58:29 > 0:58:32- 'Where to?'- Nigeria.- 'Charged to yourself, sir?'- Yes.
0:58:32 > 0:58:34'One moment, please.'
0:58:34 > 0:58:35PHONE RINGS
0:58:37 > 0:58:40- RICHARD:- 'Hello? Hello? Kainene?
0:58:42 > 0:58:45- 'Is that you Kainene?' - Hello, Richard.
0:58:45 > 0:58:49- How was your cousin's wedding? - It was fine. Are you all right?
0:58:50 > 0:58:51I miss you, Richard.
0:58:53 > 0:58:55I'm flying home tomorrow.
0:58:57 > 0:58:59Are you all right?
0:58:59 > 0:59:01Hurry home.
0:59:02 > 0:59:04THEY CHEER AND LAUGH
0:59:06 > 0:59:09- HE SINGS:- This is our beginning!
0:59:09 > 0:59:11- This is our beginning! - BABY CRIES
0:59:13 > 0:59:16Don't cry, baby, you're a Biafran now.
0:59:16 > 0:59:20- OJUKWU:- '..Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria,
0:59:20 > 0:59:22'by virtue of the authority,
0:59:22 > 0:59:26'and pursuant to the principles recited above,
0:59:26 > 0:59:29'do hereby solemnly proclaim
0:59:29 > 0:59:34'that the territory and region known as and called Eastern Nigeria,
0:59:34 > 0:59:38'together with her continental shelf and territorial waters,
0:59:38 > 0:59:43'shall henceforth be an independent sovereign state
0:59:43 > 0:59:49'of the name and title of The Republic of Biafra.'
1:00:08 > 1:00:11War is looming.
1:00:11 > 1:00:13Port Harcourt is going crazy.
1:00:15 > 1:00:17It's the oil.
1:00:17 > 1:00:20They can't let us go easily with all that oil.
1:00:25 > 1:00:26There won't be a war.
1:00:33 > 1:00:36- OJUKWU:- 'If civil war comes, and I do think it is imminent,
1:00:36 > 1:00:42'our people have for a long time been prepared for this eventuality.
1:00:42 > 1:00:44'And I am confident of their readiness.
1:00:46 > 1:00:48'I think...
1:00:50 > 1:00:52'..that when it does come...
1:00:54 > 1:00:59'..the people on the other side will be surprised...
1:01:01 > 1:01:04'..as to what they're going to get.'
1:01:04 > 1:01:07HEAVY ARTILLERY EXPLOSIONS
1:01:07 > 1:01:10What is that? Did you hear it? Ugwu!
1:01:10 > 1:01:13- What is that? Odenigbo! - The Federals are advancing.
1:01:13 > 1:01:16I think we should plan on leaving today.
1:01:16 > 1:01:18- MAN:- Evacuate! Evacuate now!
1:01:18 > 1:01:20- Let's go. Let's go now. - SCREAMING
1:01:25 > 1:01:28Evacuate now. The Federals have entered Nsukka!
1:01:28 > 1:01:32We are evacuating now. Right now. I am going to all the other houses.
1:01:32 > 1:01:35Lock up quick. Don't forget the Boys' Quarters.
1:01:43 > 1:01:46Put a few things together, Nkem. I'll check the engine.
1:01:46 > 1:01:48What things? What will I take?
1:01:48 > 1:01:51It won't be for long, we'll be back soon. Just a few things, clothes.
1:01:51 > 1:01:54- I was still cooking. - Put it in the car.
1:02:00 > 1:02:02DISTANT EXPLOSIONS
1:02:10 > 1:02:11WOMAN SCREAMS
1:02:38 > 1:02:40DISTANT EXPLOSIONS
1:03:01 > 1:03:03Ugwu!
1:03:08 > 1:03:10Ugwu!
1:04:50 > 1:04:53I'm fine. Are you a little early?
1:04:53 > 1:04:56Yeah, we finished early because there's going to be
1:04:56 > 1:04:58a general meeting in the square tomorrow.
1:04:58 > 1:05:01- Why?- The elders decided it was time.
1:05:02 > 1:05:07There's all kinds of silly rumours about Abba evacuating soon.
1:05:07 > 1:05:11Some ignoramuses even say the federal troops have entered Awka.
1:05:11 > 1:05:13Will you come?
1:05:13 > 1:05:16To the meeting? I'm not from Abba.
1:05:16 > 1:05:18But you could be, if you married me.
1:05:20 > 1:05:22You should be.
1:05:23 > 1:05:26- We're fine as we are. - We're at war.
1:05:26 > 1:05:29My mother will have to decide what will be done with my body
1:05:29 > 1:05:31if anything happened to me.
1:05:31 > 1:05:35- You should decide that.- Stop it! Nothing will happen to you.
1:05:35 > 1:05:38I know nothing will happen to me. I just really want you to marry me.
1:05:40 > 1:05:42We should marry.
1:05:43 > 1:05:45It no longer makes sense.
1:05:47 > 1:05:49It never made sense.
1:05:52 > 1:05:55You'll have to take wine to my father, then.
1:05:57 > 1:05:59Is that a yes?
1:06:02 > 1:06:05Yes. It is a yes.
1:06:06 > 1:06:07HORN BLARES
1:06:13 > 1:06:14Mum.
1:06:14 > 1:06:17I wasn't sure you got my message about the wedding.
1:06:17 > 1:06:20What wedding? Where is he?
1:06:20 > 1:06:22Odenigbo? He's at work.
1:06:26 > 1:06:28Mum, what is all that for?
1:06:28 > 1:06:32I carry them everywhere I go now. My diamonds are inside my bra.
1:06:32 > 1:06:34Nobody knows what's going on.
1:06:34 > 1:06:36We are hearing that Umunnachi is about to fall
1:06:36 > 1:06:38and that the Federals are very close by.
1:06:38 > 1:06:39The vandals are not close by.
1:06:39 > 1:06:42Our troops are driving them back around Nsukka.
1:06:42 > 1:06:45But how long is it taking to drive them back?
1:06:45 > 1:06:48Anyway, your father and I have finalised our plans.
1:06:48 > 1:06:50We have paid somebody who will take us to Cameroon
1:06:50 > 1:06:52and get us a flight from there to London.
1:06:52 > 1:06:54We paid for four places.
1:06:54 > 1:06:58Your father's gone to Port Harcourt to tell Kainene.
1:06:58 > 1:07:00You know I won't go.
1:07:00 > 1:07:03But you and daddy should go, if it'll make you feel safer.
1:07:03 > 1:07:06I'll stay with Odenigbo and Baby. We'll be fine.
1:07:06 > 1:07:09We are going to Umuahia soon for him to start work at the Directorate.
1:07:09 > 1:07:10What's that?
1:07:10 > 1:07:12The Directorate of Labour and Manpower.
1:07:12 > 1:07:15As soon as Nsukka is recovered, though, we're going back.
1:07:15 > 1:07:18But what if Nsukka is not recovered? What if this war drags on and on?
1:07:18 > 1:07:19It won't!
1:07:19 > 1:07:22How can I leave my children and run to safety?
1:07:24 > 1:07:26We'll be fine, Mum.
1:07:26 > 1:07:30You can still change your mind, the four places are paid for.
1:07:36 > 1:07:38Wedding? What wedding?
1:07:45 > 1:07:47Good evening, Mama.
1:07:49 > 1:07:50Odenigbo's not back yet.
1:08:02 > 1:08:04Smoking is bad for you, Mama.
1:08:06 > 1:08:08That may be so, my daughter,
1:08:08 > 1:08:11but I am too old to die young from smoking.
1:08:14 > 1:08:16Is my grand-daughter well?
1:08:18 > 1:08:19Baby is well.
1:08:20 > 1:08:23- She's inside, asleep.- That's good.
1:08:27 > 1:08:29I have not come to see Odenigbo.
1:08:30 > 1:08:33It is you, my daughter, that I have come to see.
1:08:35 > 1:08:39Supposing Odenigbo's cousin, Aniekwena,
1:08:39 > 1:08:43were to take wine to your father, how would you feel?
1:08:47 > 1:08:52- I am asking... - I know what you're asking, Mama.
1:08:52 > 1:08:53..if you would marry my son.
1:08:58 > 1:09:01But why, Mama?
1:09:03 > 1:09:04What has changed about me?
1:09:07 > 1:09:09Did Odenigbo put you up to this?
1:09:09 > 1:09:11Did he come to you on his way home last night?
1:09:11 > 1:09:14Did he tell you that he was going to ask me?
1:09:16 > 1:09:19I have not seen my son in three days, my daughter.
1:09:21 > 1:09:23Will you marry Odenigbo?
1:09:25 > 1:09:27Yes.
1:09:31 > 1:09:33Yes, I will marry Odenigbo.
1:09:50 > 1:09:55It's too good to be true, don't you think? Where's the catch?
1:09:55 > 1:09:57There's no catch, Nkem.
1:09:57 > 1:10:00It's Mama's way of saying sorry.
1:10:24 > 1:10:25We are ready to go, Odenigbo,
1:10:25 > 1:10:28and your mother has refused to pack her things and come.
1:10:28 > 1:10:31Mama? I thought we agreed you are going to Uke.
1:10:31 > 1:10:35Hm-mm. Don't say that! You told me that we have to run,
1:10:35 > 1:10:37that it is better that I go to Uke.
1:10:37 > 1:10:40But did you hear me agree?
1:10:40 > 1:10:42Did I say 'oh' to you?
1:10:42 > 1:10:44You want to come with us to Umuahia, then?
1:10:44 > 1:10:47But why are you running? Where are you running to?
1:10:47 > 1:10:48Can you hear any guns?
1:10:48 > 1:10:51Mama, people are fleeing Abagana and Ukpo,
1:10:51 > 1:10:54which means the Hausa soldiers are close and will soon enter Abba.
1:10:54 > 1:10:56Who am I running away from my own house for?
1:10:56 > 1:10:59Do you know that your father will be cursing us now?
1:10:59 > 1:11:02We are going to Umuahia soon for him to start work at the Directorate.
1:11:02 > 1:11:04There will be nobody left in Abba.
1:11:04 > 1:11:07The news is not good.
1:11:07 > 1:11:10I am leaving for Uke. Send word when you get to Umuahia.
1:11:13 > 1:11:16Go, go and pack your things.
1:11:16 > 1:11:19I will wait and watch the house.
1:11:19 > 1:11:24After you all have run, you will return. I will be here.
1:11:24 > 1:11:26Mama, will you not come with us?
1:11:26 > 1:11:28Please, come with us!
1:11:30 > 1:11:34Give me the keys to your house. I might need things there.
1:11:34 > 1:11:36Come with us, Mama.
1:11:36 > 1:11:38You'll miss the wedding.
1:11:41 > 1:11:43Give me the key. This is my home.
1:11:56 > 1:11:58Mama...
1:11:59 > 1:12:01Come with us.
1:12:03 > 1:12:05Please come with us, Mama.
1:12:43 > 1:12:46- TV:- 'Seven weeks ago Colonel Ojukwu was on the receiving end
1:12:46 > 1:12:48'of a federal police action to prevent
1:12:48 > 1:12:51'his pulling the former eastern region out of the federation.
1:12:51 > 1:12:54'Now, it's a full-scale civil war.'
1:12:54 > 1:12:58Where's Baby? She hasn't gone out to play, has she?
1:12:58 > 1:13:00I don't want her getting any dirt on that dress.
1:13:00 > 1:13:02She is in the living room.
1:13:05 > 1:13:08I sent a message to Port Harcourt for Kainene.
1:13:08 > 1:13:11She won't come. I just wanted her to know.
1:13:11 > 1:13:13It's still too big.
1:13:17 > 1:13:19- KNOCK AT DOOR - Olanna, are you ready?
1:13:19 > 1:13:21Yes, I'm ready. Please come in.
1:13:21 > 1:13:23Did you bring the flowers?
1:13:23 > 1:13:25What is this?
1:13:26 > 1:13:28I wanted fresh flowers, Okeoma.
1:13:28 > 1:13:32Nobody grows flowers in Umuahia. People here grow what they can eat.
1:13:32 > 1:13:34I won't hold flowers then.
1:13:41 > 1:13:43SHE SIGHS HEAVILY
1:14:09 > 1:14:12THEY SPEAK IGBO
1:14:14 > 1:14:17AFROBEAT MUSIC
1:14:22 > 1:14:24I caught you dancing.
1:14:37 > 1:14:39FANFARE AND PERCUSSION INTRO
1:14:39 > 1:14:41LAUGHING AND WHOOPING
1:14:44 > 1:14:46ALL: Hail Biafra!
1:14:46 > 1:14:48AFROBEAT TUNE PLAYS
1:14:58 > 1:14:59Ah, the cake.
1:15:05 > 1:15:07Come with me now.
1:15:11 > 1:15:13Was it you?
1:15:17 > 1:15:20Come on, get some.
1:15:20 > 1:15:23Everybody, I want you together. OK, let's do one, two...
1:15:26 > 1:15:28SCREAMING AND SHOUTING
1:15:31 > 1:15:33AIRCRAFT OVERHEAD
1:15:49 > 1:15:51- ODENIGBO:- Okeoma! Okeoma!
1:15:54 > 1:15:55No!
1:15:58 > 1:16:00No!
1:16:00 > 1:16:01- BABY:- Mummy!
1:16:15 > 1:16:18Enunciate. Ike, you say it.
1:16:18 > 1:16:20Setru.
1:16:20 > 1:16:23Ah, "set-tle".
1:16:23 > 1:16:27"Set-tle". The word has no R in it.
1:16:27 > 1:16:29OK, let's try...
1:16:29 > 1:16:30- B for?- CHILDREN: Ball.
1:16:30 > 1:16:32- C for?- Cat.
1:16:32 > 1:16:34- D for?- Dog.
1:16:34 > 1:16:37- E for?- Egg.
1:16:37 > 1:16:38- F for?- Fish.
1:16:38 > 1:16:40- G for?- Golf.
1:16:40 > 1:16:42- H for?- House.
1:16:42 > 1:16:45It's impossible! You can't go back to Abba!
1:16:45 > 1:16:48I have to bury what the vultures left behind.
1:16:48 > 1:16:50- Sah...- Yes, yes, yes.
1:16:50 > 1:16:52Somebody must have buried her!
1:16:52 > 1:16:54CAR STARTS
1:16:58 > 1:17:00We have to leave tomorrow.
1:17:00 > 1:17:04The landlord doesn't want us because we can't pay our rent.
1:17:04 > 1:17:06What am I going to do?
1:17:14 > 1:17:18Why are you using the kerosene stove? Are you stupid?
1:17:18 > 1:17:20Haven't I told you to save our kerosene?
1:17:20 > 1:17:22But, mah, you said I should cook Baby's food.
1:17:22 > 1:17:26I did not say that! Go outside and light a fire!
1:17:28 > 1:17:31Do you know how much kerosene costs?
1:17:32 > 1:17:35Just because you don't pay for the things you use
1:17:35 > 1:17:38does not mean you can use them as you like!
1:17:38 > 1:17:41Is firewood itself not a luxury where you come from?
1:17:41 > 1:17:43Sorry, mah.
1:17:53 > 1:17:54His mother is dead.
1:17:58 > 1:18:00They shot her in Abba.
1:18:06 > 1:18:09The Biafran soldiers at the roadblocks
1:18:09 > 1:18:11kept asking me to turn back.
1:18:13 > 1:18:17So I parked the car, hid it, and began to walk.
1:18:20 > 1:18:22Finally, one Biafran officer...
1:18:24 > 1:18:26..cocked his gun...
1:18:28 > 1:18:30..told me he would shoot me...
1:18:31 > 1:18:35..and save the vandals the trouble if I didn't turn around.
1:18:39 > 1:18:41I'm fine, Nkem.
1:18:48 > 1:18:50I'm fine.
1:19:15 > 1:19:16I hear there's a lot of free sex here,
1:19:16 > 1:19:18but the girls got some kind of disease.
1:19:18 > 1:19:20The Bonny disease?
1:19:20 > 1:19:23Guess you guys gotta be careful what you bring back home.
1:19:23 > 1:19:26This refugee camp is run by my wife.
1:19:26 > 1:19:29- Really? How long she been here? - She's Biafran.
1:19:29 > 1:19:33- Do you speak Igbo pretty well? - Yes. Kedu.
1:19:36 > 1:19:38There is food in Sao Tome
1:19:38 > 1:19:40crawling with cockroaches because there's no way to bring it in.
1:19:43 > 1:19:46Would it be all right if I gave you some letters?
1:19:46 > 1:19:48To my wife's parents in London.
1:21:03 > 1:21:05We'll get something better soon.
1:21:09 > 1:21:11SHE SOBS
1:21:16 > 1:21:17KNOCK AT DOOR
1:21:25 > 1:21:27- Welcome. Nno.- Thank you.
1:21:27 > 1:21:31I live down the corridor. Your husband is not here?
1:21:31 > 1:21:33He's still at work.
1:21:33 > 1:21:36I wanted to see him before the others do.
1:21:36 > 1:21:41It is about my children. Three of them have asthma.
1:21:41 > 1:21:45- Asthma?- The landlord called him "Doctor".
1:21:45 > 1:21:47Oh!
1:21:47 > 1:21:50No, he has a doctorate.
1:21:50 > 1:21:54He's a doctor of books, not a doctor for sick people.
1:21:54 > 1:21:56Oh...
1:22:02 > 1:22:05Erm...there is a woman in a car asking for you.
1:22:16 > 1:22:17Kainene?
1:22:25 > 1:22:28I went to your old house and somebody told me to come here.
1:22:28 > 1:22:29Our landlord kicked us out.
1:22:33 > 1:22:34Come in.
1:22:39 > 1:22:40Sit down.
1:22:51 > 1:22:53So, how have you been?
1:22:55 > 1:22:58Things were normal until Port Harcourt fell.
1:22:58 > 1:23:01I was an army contractor, and I had a licence to import stock fish.
1:23:01 > 1:23:06I'm in Orlu now. I'm in charge of a refugee camp there.
1:23:06 > 1:23:07Oh...
1:23:08 > 1:23:12Are you silently condemning me for profiteering from the war?
1:23:12 > 1:23:14Somebody had to import the stockfish.
1:23:14 > 1:23:17No, no, I wasn't thinking that.
1:23:17 > 1:23:19You were.
1:23:19 > 1:23:21I was so worried when Port Harcourt fell.
1:23:22 > 1:23:25- I sent messages. - Yes, you said you were teaching.
1:23:25 > 1:23:29Do you still? Your noble win-the-war effort?
1:23:29 > 1:23:31The school's a refugee centre now.
1:23:31 > 1:23:34Sometimes I teach children in the yard.
1:23:34 > 1:23:36And how's the revolutionary husband?
1:23:40 > 1:23:42He's still with the Manpower Directorate.
1:23:44 > 1:23:46You don't have a wedding photo.
1:23:46 > 1:23:50There was an air raid during our reception, and...
1:23:54 > 1:23:58I came to give you this. Mum sent it through a British journalist.
1:24:02 > 1:24:05I also brought two dresses for Baby.
1:24:05 > 1:24:06A woman who came back from Sao Tome
1:24:06 > 1:24:09had some good children's clothes for sale.
1:24:11 > 1:24:16- You bought clothes for Baby? - How shocking, indeed.
1:24:16 > 1:24:19It's about time the girl began to be called Chiamaka.
1:24:19 > 1:24:21- This Baby business is tiresome. - SHE GIGGLES
1:24:27 > 1:24:29Will you drink some water? It's all we have.
1:24:29 > 1:24:30No, no, I'm fine.
1:24:34 > 1:24:37Yes, please.
1:24:37 > 1:24:38I'd like that.
1:24:54 > 1:24:56I thought about changing your money for you.
1:24:56 > 1:24:58But you can do it at the bank and then deposit, can't you?
1:24:58 > 1:25:01Haven't you seen all the bomb craters around the bank?
1:25:01 > 1:25:02My money's staying under my bed.
1:25:02 > 1:25:05Make sure the cockroaches don't get it.
1:25:05 > 1:25:07Life is harder for them these days.
1:25:09 > 1:25:11I'll come on Wednesday.
1:25:11 > 1:25:14- Will you drive? - No. Look, it's not that far.
1:25:16 > 1:25:17Greet the revolutionary for me.
1:25:42 > 1:25:46Madam. I am bringing drinks?
1:25:46 > 1:25:48The way he goes on, you'd think we had a grand cellar
1:25:48 > 1:25:50in this half-built house in the middle of nowhere.
1:25:50 > 1:25:53- Madam? - No, Harrison, don't bring drinks.
1:25:53 > 1:25:56We're leaving now. Remember, lunch for three.
1:25:56 > 1:25:57Yes, Madam.
1:26:01 > 1:26:06Harrison is the most pretentious peasant I have ever seen.
1:26:06 > 1:26:08- I know you don't like the word peasant.- No.
1:26:08 > 1:26:11- But he is, you know. - We're all peasants!
1:26:11 > 1:26:15Are we? It's the sort of thing Richard would say.
1:26:17 > 1:26:18Odenigbo, too.
1:26:21 > 1:26:24Grandfather used to say about difficult things
1:26:24 > 1:26:28he had gone through, "It didn't kill me, it made me knowledgeable."
1:26:28 > 1:26:29I remember.
1:26:31 > 1:26:35There are some things that are so unforgivable...
1:26:37 > 1:26:40..that they make other things easily forgivable.
1:26:48 > 1:26:52'At precisely half past one every day, they come over the town
1:26:52 > 1:26:55'as the market place is full, as patients are sitting out
1:26:55 > 1:26:56'on the lawns at hospitals.
1:26:56 > 1:26:58'Here comes the next one.
1:26:58 > 1:27:01'He's flying the other side of the Mission Church.
1:27:01 > 1:27:04'Sweeping to the right. Strafing the ground as they move.
1:27:04 > 1:27:06'Dropping incendiary bombs and fragmentation bombs
1:27:06 > 1:27:08'in the market places around here.'
1:27:10 > 1:27:13SINGING: We are sure to win the war, we are sure, we are sure...
1:27:13 > 1:27:15- REPORTER:- 'The war was going quite badly.
1:27:15 > 1:27:19'In desperation, Ojukwu mobilised the country's Boys' Brigade
1:27:19 > 1:27:22'to raise morale by showing a new generation was training
1:27:22 > 1:27:24'to take its place at the front line.'
1:27:24 > 1:27:26- OJUKWU:- 'Fight on, brave boys, fight on!
1:27:26 > 1:27:28'Heroes of our fatherland
1:27:28 > 1:27:32'pursue the enemy, harass him, destroy the invader.
1:27:32 > 1:27:36'March on, brave boys, now that victory is in sight.'
1:27:36 > 1:27:38You! Stop there! Stop there!
1:27:38 > 1:27:40GUNSHOT
1:27:41 > 1:27:45Stand up, stand up, you bloody civilian!
1:27:47 > 1:27:49Join them there. Join them there.
1:27:49 > 1:27:50Inside the van!
1:28:13 > 1:28:17My sister, hold your head, be strong.
1:28:19 > 1:28:20Ugwu has died.
1:28:22 > 1:28:24Ugwu was with the field engineers,
1:28:24 > 1:28:27and they suffered massive casualties.
1:28:27 > 1:28:29Only a few came back.
1:28:30 > 1:28:33Come with me. Bring Chiamaka.
1:28:33 > 1:28:35Come and stay in Orlu. Olanna!
1:28:38 > 1:28:41Have you drunk enough, eh?
1:28:41 > 1:28:44Ugwu has died.
1:28:44 > 1:28:47Do you hear me? Ugwu has died.
1:28:47 > 1:28:50Drink and don't stop! Drink!
1:28:50 > 1:28:52Ugwu has died!
1:28:57 > 1:28:58SHE SOBS
1:29:04 > 1:29:05EXPLOSION
1:29:10 > 1:29:11CLOSER EXPLOSION
1:29:15 > 1:29:17GUNFIRE
1:29:17 > 1:29:19LOUD SCREAMS
1:29:19 > 1:29:22Get the boxes. Leave the clothes.
1:29:24 > 1:29:26Baby.
1:29:26 > 1:29:28- Odenigbo!- We'll take this one. OK.
1:29:39 > 1:29:42EXPLOSIONS AND GUNFIRE
1:29:53 > 1:29:55ENGINE STALLS
1:29:55 > 1:29:56Odenigbo!
1:30:06 > 1:30:09Start walking! I'll catch you up when the car starts.
1:30:09 > 1:30:11If we are walking, we'll walk together!
1:30:16 > 1:30:18ENGINE STARTS
1:30:37 > 1:30:40SCREAMING
1:30:49 > 1:30:53Stop it! Stop it right now. Leave him alone.
1:30:53 > 1:30:54Leave him alone!
1:30:56 > 1:30:59- WOMAN:- He's a thief! - He's not a thief. Do you hear me?
1:30:59 > 1:31:03He is not a thief! He is a hungry soldier.
1:31:06 > 1:31:08Have you come from the front?
1:31:11 > 1:31:14Are you running? Have you deserted?
1:31:16 > 1:31:20Come. Come and have some garri before you go.
1:31:25 > 1:31:28We're here until we find a place to rent.
1:31:28 > 1:31:32Harrison, bring some more palm oil for Chiamaka.
1:31:33 > 1:31:37What an interesting beard. Are you trying to copy His Excellency?
1:31:37 > 1:31:39I never try to copy anyone.
1:31:39 > 1:31:43Of course. I'd forgotten how original you are.
1:31:45 > 1:31:49Harrison roasted a fantastic bush rat for us last week.
1:31:49 > 1:31:52But you would've thought it was a rack of lamb
1:31:52 > 1:31:53the way he went on about it.
1:31:59 > 1:32:03- OJUKWU:- '...border towns and zones they've captured by treachery.
1:32:03 > 1:32:06'Our people are determined to fight to the last man,
1:32:06 > 1:32:08'confident of eventual success.
1:32:08 > 1:32:11'May God bless you all, fellow Biafrans,
1:32:11 > 1:32:13'and keep and protect Biafra.'
1:32:20 > 1:32:22What do you think accounts for the success
1:32:22 > 1:32:25of the white man's mission in Africa, Richard?
1:32:27 > 1:32:28The success?
1:32:28 > 1:32:31Yes, the success, I think, in English.
1:32:31 > 1:32:34Perhaps you should first account for the failure of the black man
1:32:34 > 1:32:37to curb the white man's mission.
1:32:38 > 1:32:41Who brought racism into the world?
1:32:43 > 1:32:44I don't see your point.
1:32:44 > 1:32:47The white man brought racism into the world.
1:32:47 > 1:32:50He used it as the basis of conquest.
1:32:50 > 1:32:53It's always easier to conquer a more humane people.
1:32:53 > 1:32:58So, when we conquer the Nigerians, we will be less humane?
1:33:01 > 1:33:03I've got some Nigerian coins.
1:33:03 > 1:33:06I want to go to Ninth Mile and see what I can buy.
1:33:06 > 1:33:10If that goes well, I will sell some of the things our people have made.
1:33:10 > 1:33:12- That's trading with the enemy. - It's trading with
1:33:12 > 1:33:15illiterate Nigerian women who have what we need.
1:33:15 > 1:33:17It's dangerous, Kainene.
1:33:17 > 1:33:20That sector is free. Our people are trading freely there.
1:33:20 > 1:33:22- You're going, too?- No.
1:33:22 > 1:33:26At least not tomorrow. Maybe the next time Kainene goes.
1:33:26 > 1:33:30- Tomorrow? - Yes, Kainene is going tomorrow.
1:33:30 > 1:33:32Yes.
1:33:32 > 1:33:35But don't mind Olanna, she will never come with me.
1:33:35 > 1:33:37She's always been terribly frightened
1:33:37 > 1:33:38of honest free enterprise.
1:33:38 > 1:33:42Ninth Mile Road has been occupied on and off.
1:33:44 > 1:33:47- I don't think you should go. - It's all decided.
1:33:47 > 1:33:50I leave tomorrow morning, and I'll be back by evening.
1:33:50 > 1:33:52We need to eat.
1:34:02 > 1:34:05You'll leave early won't you, Richard? Those big men in Ahiara
1:34:05 > 1:34:09- may be in the office just 30 minutes.- I'll leave in an hour.
1:34:09 > 1:34:11Just tell them I'm dying and we desperately need
1:34:11 > 1:34:14milk and corned beef to keep me alive.
1:34:14 > 1:34:16I will.
1:34:16 > 1:34:18SHE SIGHS HEAVILY
1:34:18 > 1:34:19Go well.
1:34:24 > 1:34:25HE SPEAKS IGBO
1:34:30 > 1:34:32- BABY:- Uncle Richard!
1:34:32 > 1:34:34Uncle Richard, carry me!
1:34:34 > 1:34:37You're a big girl now, Baby. You're too heavy to be picked up.
1:34:37 > 1:34:42Baby has grown wiser but she hasn't grown taller since the war started.
1:34:42 > 1:34:44Better wisdom than height.
1:34:46 > 1:34:48- No luck at Ahiara? - No, I tried everywhere.
1:34:48 > 1:34:51The relief centres are empty. Is Kainene at the camp?
1:34:51 > 1:34:54She's still not back from Ninth Mile.
1:34:57 > 1:34:59BABY GIGGLES
1:35:04 > 1:35:07- Is Kainene back?- Not yet.
1:35:39 > 1:35:41Excuse me?
1:35:44 > 1:35:47- Have you seen this woman?- No.
1:35:53 > 1:35:56Hello. Have you seen this woman?
1:35:57 > 1:35:58Thank you.
1:36:13 > 1:36:15Why are you crying?
1:36:15 > 1:36:18Kainene is just stuck on the other side for a few days.
1:36:24 > 1:36:26Stop! Stop!
1:37:05 > 1:37:08- OJUKWU ON RADIO:- 'In accord with my own frequent affirmations
1:37:08 > 1:37:11'that I would personally go anywhere
1:37:11 > 1:37:14'to secure peace and security for my people...'
1:37:14 > 1:37:16PHONE RINGS
1:37:16 > 1:37:21'..I am now travelling out of Biafra to explore with our friends
1:37:21 > 1:37:23'all these proposals further and fully.'
1:37:23 > 1:37:25Yes?
1:37:27 > 1:37:29Right. Thank you.
1:37:35 > 1:37:37OLANNA: Is it Kainene?
1:37:39 > 1:37:41Has something happened?
1:37:41 > 1:37:43- Ugwu is alive.- Oh, God.
1:37:46 > 1:37:48Oh, God.
1:37:52 > 1:37:54HORN BEEPS
1:38:13 > 1:38:15They said I was dead, mah?
1:38:15 > 1:38:18Your battalion thought you had died during the operation.
1:38:22 > 1:38:23Where's Auntie Kainene?
1:38:28 > 1:38:32- REPORTER:- 'General Ojukwu, who led the Biafran cessation in Nigeria,
1:38:32 > 1:38:35'is on his way to seek political asylum in the Ivory Coast.
1:38:35 > 1:38:38'He is said to have with him 3,000 pounds of luggage
1:38:38 > 1:38:39'and his Mercedes-Benz car.'
1:38:39 > 1:38:44'I, Major General Philip Effiong,
1:38:44 > 1:38:46'officer administering the government
1:38:46 > 1:38:49'of The Republic of Biafra,
1:38:49 > 1:38:52'now wish to make the following declaration...'
1:38:55 > 1:38:57- Did you find her?- No.
1:38:57 > 1:39:00Where's the car? Did the soldiers take it?
1:39:00 > 1:39:01The fuel finished on the road.
1:39:01 > 1:39:04I will find fuel and go back and get it.
1:39:04 > 1:39:07- WOMAN:- Thank God! War is over! Peace is here!
1:39:07 > 1:39:09LAUGHTER AND CHEERING
1:39:15 > 1:39:19- EFFIONG ON RADIO: - '..we are loyal Nigerian citizens
1:39:19 > 1:39:24'and accept that the Republic of Biafra hereby ceases to exist.'
1:39:40 > 1:39:44I'm going to find Kainene in the towns outside Ninth Mile.
1:39:44 > 1:39:47- OLANNA: Wait until morning, Richard.- You have fuel?
1:39:47 > 1:39:51Enough to get me to Ninth Mile if I roll down slopes.
1:40:04 > 1:40:05ENGINE REVS
1:40:11 > 1:40:13CAR RECEDES INTO DISTANCE
1:40:54 > 1:40:56Kainene...
1:41:07 > 1:41:09Excuse me, have you seen this woman?
1:41:11 > 1:41:13- Her name's Kainene. - No, I've not seen her.
1:41:39 > 1:41:42Will Auntie Kainene come to Nsukka?
1:41:42 > 1:41:45Yes. Yes, my baby.