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Blaming the Innocent
1992 · 1h 44m
This is a historically significant Nollywood artifact tackling serious exploitation themes with real cultural weight—if you're ready for heavy subject matter and want to explore an underrepresented era of African cinema, absolutely watch it. Skip it only if you need lighter entertainment tonight.
Plot
One of the last celluloid films created during the rise of the Nollywood film industry. Film adaption of the homonymous novel written by Umaru Danjuma Katsina in the early 80s. Set in post-independence northern Nigeria the film traces a teenage girl’s descent into an illicit human trafficking ring, dedicated to the sexual exploitation of school girls by the country’s political rich.