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