The screening on Tuesday the 20th of October was followed by a Q&A with director Ose Oyamendan. Hosted by journalist and founder of Africa Here & Now Martine Dennis.
Moshood Abiola wins Nigeria’s freest election, only for the military to jail him. When U.S. diplomats arrive to negotiate his release, he is served tea, and dies. MKO unravels the cover-up behind one of Africa’s most consequential political crimes.
In 1993, Abiola, the world’s richest Black man, won a landslide victory that the military swiftly annulled. What followed was years of imprisonment, international negotiation and, ultimately, a death that has never been fully explained. The investigation draws on extraordinary access on all sides of the story: current and former Nigerian presidents, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, Abiola’s family and the U.S. delegate who was in the room when he died.
The screening on Tuesday the 20th of October was followed by a Q&A with director Ose Oyamendan. Hosted by journalist and founder of Africa Here & Now Martine Dennis.
This screening was Open Captioned and a British Sign Language interpreter was visible on stage throughout the Q&A.
In this joint curation between Bertha DocHouse and Sheffield DocFest, audiences are invited to discover the gems, highlights and new voices in non-fiction cinema which premiered in the past festival edition.