Movies Afire

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 124

Language: English

Director: Joanna Lipper

Plot: In 1993, Nigeria elected M.K.O. Abiola as president in a historic vote that promised to end years of military dictatorship. Shortly after the election, Abiola was imprisoned as another military regime seized power. His wife, Kudirat, took over leadership of the pro-democracy movement, organizing strikes and marches, winning international attention for the Nigerian struggle. Because of this work, she too became a target and was assassinated in 1996. Director Joanna Lipper interweaves past and present as she tells this story through the eyes of Hafsat Abiola, who was about to graduate from Harvard when her mother was murdered. Her father died in prison two years later under mysterious circumstances. Determined not to let her parents’ democratic ideals die with them, Hafsat returns to Nigeria after years in exile and emerges at the forefront of a progressive movement to empower women and dismantle the patriarchal structure of Nigerian society. THE SUPREME PRICE offers an unprecedented look inside Africa’s most populous nation, exposing the tumultuous, violent history of a deeply entrenched corrupt culture of governance where a tiny circle of political elites monopolize billions of dollars worth of oil revenue while the masses remain impoverished.