01:01:07.080 --> 01:01:10.240
Over there.
Yes, can we shift these things there?

01:01:10.360 --> 01:01:14.840
And then this bus can drive down, okay?

01:01:14.960 --> 01:01:18.680
Let the bus go there
so that people can gather around here.

01:01:18.800 --> 01:01:23.960
Okay, wonderful. Sorry.
We will use your tyre place.

01:01:24.080 --> 01:01:27.240
If we want to put our drums here...
Can we put our drums?

01:01:46.000 --> 01:01:51.280
Ladies and gentlemen,
welcome to Hear Word's street storm.

01:01:51.400 --> 01:01:54.000
Hear Word is about women.

01:01:54.120 --> 01:01:56.880
It's a story about women,
but we want men to hear it...

01:01:57.000 --> 01:01:59.800
because we need their support, okay?

01:01:59.920 --> 01:02:05.240
It's telling women that they
should get it, question themselves...

01:02:05.360 --> 01:02:08.840
how they can build...
How they can reach their full potential...

01:02:08.960 --> 01:02:13.160
and how they can build a better Nigeria
in this new time of change.

01:02:13.280 --> 01:02:17.360
So ladies and gentlemen,
do you want to change? Come join us now.

01:02:27.160 --> 01:02:32.840
For us honour the glory of this country.

01:02:32.960 --> 01:02:35.040
The time is now.

01:02:35.160 --> 01:02:37.800
Enough is enough. Step up.

01:02:37.920 --> 01:02:41.760
Stand for. Speak out.
Accept nothing less.

01:02:41.880 --> 01:02:44.000
It is time for change.

01:02:45.040 --> 01:02:48.240
I said something good
or did I not say something good?

01:02:48.360 --> 01:02:50.920
You have said something good.

01:02:51.040 --> 01:02:54.600
Children are equivalent
to clothes in this world.

01:02:54.720 --> 01:03:00.600
They ask me how many children I have.
These sisters of my husband.

01:03:00.720 --> 01:03:02.720
Me, the adorable me.

01:03:02.840 --> 01:03:06.360
Five! Five beautiful daughters...

01:03:06.480 --> 01:03:10.720
ready to become beautiful brides
for ready men.

01:03:12.840 --> 01:03:16.320
I saw their faces fall.
Their sadness palpable.

01:03:16.440 --> 01:03:18.400
Mother, what happened?
Don't be annoyed.

01:03:18.520 --> 01:03:20.680
Our Mother, please what is the matter?

01:03:20.800 --> 01:03:24.480
We said you should give us
children, not daughters.

01:03:25.640 --> 01:03:28.760
But you're women too.
-So?

01:03:28.880 --> 01:03:32.120
We only start counting
from the first penis.

01:03:49.440 --> 01:03:51.360
Good afternoon. The door is open.
-Uber?

01:03:51.480 --> 01:03:52.480
Yes.

01:03:55.680 --> 01:03:58.360
I can't open the door.
-Sorry.

01:04:03.960 --> 01:04:06.320
I'm going to Makoko.
-Good afternoon.

01:04:06.440 --> 01:04:08.040
Good afternoon.
-Makoko?

01:04:08.160 --> 01:04:12.000
Makoko, yes.
There are two docks there, so...

01:04:12.120 --> 01:04:15.240
I'll show you when we get there
which dock.

01:04:37.120 --> 01:04:40.320
I've never been down there, really.

01:04:43.480 --> 01:04:47.440
What are you going to do there?
-I'm a theatre director...

01:04:47.560 --> 01:04:49.640
and I do work for social change.

01:04:50.960 --> 01:04:55.360
The project I'm working on in Makoko
is a women empowerment project.

01:04:55.480 --> 01:05:00.160
It's a play called Hear Word. We're now
making the Makoko version of that.

01:05:00.280 --> 01:05:04.560
With Bimbo Akintola and Joke Silva.
You know Joke Silva?

01:05:04.680 --> 01:05:06.360
Yes.
-And Elvina Ibru.

01:05:06.480 --> 01:05:11.160
So that's what we do. We're just doing
a project with the women in Makoko...

01:05:11.280 --> 01:05:17.120
as an experiment, to see what their
own problems are in the Makoko area.

01:05:17.240 --> 01:05:22.200
And so we're calling it 'Mi Setonu'
which is their language.

01:05:23.640 --> 01:05:26.160
Is it like a ghetto that we are going to?

01:05:26.800 --> 01:05:32.240
There are so many other proper places...
-There are so many ghettos around Lagos.

01:05:32.360 --> 01:05:36.200
So I already do shows in Lagos Island.

01:05:36.320 --> 01:05:41.480
I've already done shows around,
so I'm interested in outreach.

01:05:41.600 --> 01:05:45.560
I do shows at universities,
at the bus stop...

01:05:45.680 --> 01:05:49.440
at Mushin market, and Makoko is near me.

01:05:49.560 --> 01:05:52.280
So why not?
-I hope you'll be successful...

01:05:52.400 --> 01:05:55.400
because over here,
things don't really work like that.

01:05:55.520 --> 01:05:58.600
It's men that are in control of everything.

01:05:58.720 --> 01:06:01.840
Women, to a certain degree.

01:06:01.960 --> 01:06:06.920
But it's a man's world.
-That's the whole point of the show, right?

01:06:07.040 --> 01:06:10.200
It's that in Nigeria,
we need women in leadership.

01:06:10.320 --> 01:06:15.880
Since men have controlled Nigeria
for 45 years and look where we are.

01:06:18.200 --> 01:06:23.320
Me, I seriously doubt that
what you are trying to do, will work out.

01:06:23.440 --> 01:06:26.560
I'm sorry to say,
but that's just my opinion.

01:06:29.520 --> 01:06:32.360
Are you married?
-Yes, I am.

01:06:32.480 --> 01:06:34.440
If you have a girlfriend now...
-Yeah?

01:06:34.560 --> 01:06:39.000
...would your wife leave you?
-Not really, but she wouldn't like it.

01:06:39.120 --> 01:06:43.080
I would just have to beg her,
buy her some gifts...

01:06:43.200 --> 01:06:45.720
and tell her it won't happen again.

01:06:47.000 --> 01:06:52.000
If you got home and your wife was
having an affair with your neighbour...

01:06:52.120 --> 01:06:55.000
No, that is not allowed.
-What do you mean?

01:06:55.120 --> 01:06:59.640
That is not allowed.
A woman cannot have an affair.

01:06:59.760 --> 01:07:05.000
A man can do it. In our Nigeria a man
can marry six wives if he wants.

01:07:05.120 --> 01:07:09.920
Women are not allowed to do that.
That is an abomination, a taboo.

01:07:10.040 --> 01:07:13.800
Even though all of you are religious
and go to church. Then it says one.

01:07:13.920 --> 01:07:16.600
...is supposed to be
the sanctity of marriage.

01:07:16.720 --> 01:07:21.240
That's the sort of hypocrisy
of Christianity in Nigeria now.

01:07:21.360 --> 01:07:25.480
Nothing is going to change.
Things are going to be the way they are.

01:07:25.600 --> 01:07:28.600
And everybody is going to be fine with it.

01:07:39.200 --> 01:07:43.760
I'm going somewhere on the right there. So
just after this corner you can drop me off.

01:07:44.360 --> 01:07:47.360
Goodbye. Can you open the door?
-This your door.

01:07:47.480 --> 01:07:51.240
As you say, men have power and women
don't have power. Open this door.

01:07:54.200 --> 01:07:56.760
Thank you.
-Alright, take care. Bye, bye.

01:08:35.760 --> 01:08:39.600
I am going to dock now
at King Abraham's place.

01:08:40.520 --> 01:08:43.000
Take me to King Abraham, okay?

01:08:43.320 --> 01:08:45.000
Can you?

01:08:47.280 --> 01:08:51.760
Slow down. Slow down. Slow down.

01:08:52.720 --> 01:08:54.720
Slow down.

01:09:11.880 --> 01:09:16.960
I wanted to properly
explain the programme.

01:09:18.840 --> 01:09:22.160
I am a director of theatre...

01:09:22.280 --> 01:09:28.960
but I only work on theatre programmes
that change communities.

01:09:29.080 --> 01:09:35.680
And I wanted to bring my programme here,
to this community.

01:09:35.800 --> 01:09:40.840
So the project that I want to bring here
is a women empowerment project.

01:09:40.960 --> 01:09:45.160
We work with some special people
in Nigeria...

01:09:45.280 --> 01:09:48.480
who are in the Nollywood film industry.

01:09:48.600 --> 01:09:50.960
I am now starting my programme today.

01:09:51.080 --> 01:09:55.080
Today is the first day that
I'm going to meet with about fifty women.

01:09:55.200 --> 01:10:00.440
We will build a community centre,
a platform where we will do the show.

01:10:00.560 --> 01:10:06.560
We're now hoping that that platform
will become a community centre

01:10:06.680 --> 01:10:12.560
so that the women in your community
can participate and can benefit from it.

01:10:12.680 --> 01:10:15.640
So I'm here to ask your permission.

01:10:18.560 --> 01:10:21.040
Thank you. You are welcome.

01:10:21.160 --> 01:10:23.520
I'm so grateful.

01:10:24.520 --> 01:10:30.200
Because you know, this is a poor
community. Let me put it this way.

01:10:30.320 --> 01:10:34.680
There is no work and no money.
And the population

01:10:35.920 --> 01:10:39.920
is increasing every day.

01:10:40.040 --> 01:10:44.480
Many white men and many organizations
come here, but they do nothing.

01:10:45.600 --> 01:10:49.320
They promise to come and do this,
but we see nobody.

01:10:50.400 --> 01:10:54.920
So I think, if God helps you,
and uses you for this community...

01:10:55.040 --> 01:10:58.360
I think that is a good thing,
and I support you.

01:10:58.480 --> 01:11:00.480
Thank you.
-You are welcome.

01:11:00.600 --> 01:11:02.920
Good. Okay.

01:11:03.040 --> 01:11:07.200
We support... You won't have
any problems with this community.

01:11:07.320 --> 01:11:12.920
The only thing is that,
anything you promise to do, just do it.

01:11:13.040 --> 01:11:15.920
Yes, thank you very much. Thank you.

01:11:22.960 --> 01:11:26.320
Give us money. Money, money.

01:11:26.440 --> 01:11:29.600
I'm coming back, ma. I'm coming back.

01:11:29.720 --> 01:11:32.640
Okay mummy, I will come back.

01:11:40.800 --> 01:11:42.440
Snuffs. He's right there.
include Greetings, father.

01:12:17.200 --> 01:12:20.200
Welcome.
-I greet you. Thank you.

01:12:20.320 --> 01:12:23.040
So...

01:12:23.160 --> 01:12:26.960
I only speak a little Yoruba.
So I would like to speak in English.

01:12:29.280 --> 01:12:33.960
I'm coming to the community
to do one programme for women.

01:12:34.080 --> 01:12:37.240
The programme is to use theatre...

01:12:37.360 --> 01:12:42.360
to make women more aware.

01:12:42.480 --> 01:12:48.240
I understand what you are saying
and I am okay with it.

01:12:48.360 --> 01:12:51.520
You have to bring money for the elders.

01:12:51.640 --> 01:12:54.520
Bring money
and two schnapps for the elders.

01:12:54.640 --> 01:12:57.480
Elders say, everything is fine.

01:12:57.600 --> 01:13:00.520
But you must bring drinks, schnapps...

01:13:00.640 --> 01:13:03.800
because there are still some people
in the church now.

01:13:03.920 --> 01:13:07.480
But you have to give us schnapps
and some money.

01:13:08.560 --> 01:13:12.920
So we can buy the things to use for prayers.
-Exactly.

01:13:13.040 --> 01:13:16.160
No problem.
-And that's it. Okay, I want to do it now.

01:13:16.280 --> 01:13:19.560
Can I make the presentation?
-You can do it now. No problem.

01:13:19.680 --> 01:13:22.800
Wow, wow, wow.

01:13:22.920 --> 01:13:26.520
This is for the elders.
-Yes, I know. Don't worry.

01:13:26.640 --> 01:13:28.880
This is for the elders.

01:13:29.920 --> 01:13:33.640
This is for the senior man.
-Okay.

01:13:33.760 --> 01:13:39.080
This is for the elders
and this one is for you personally.

01:13:39.200 --> 01:13:42.000
This is for the prayers.

01:13:42.120 --> 01:13:45.680
For the prayers.

01:13:45.800 --> 01:13:48.720
Count the money.

01:13:51.560 --> 01:13:54.000
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven...

01:13:55.480 --> 01:13:59.840
So how many people here speak English?

01:13:59.960 --> 01:14:01.600
Indicate if you can speak English.

01:14:01.720 --> 01:14:06.800
So I need to count. How many people
speak English? One, two...

01:14:06.920 --> 01:14:09.280
Who really speaks
and understands English well?

01:14:09.400 --> 01:14:13.080
Who really speaks English?
-There are students among them.

01:14:13.200 --> 01:14:15.560
Okay, we need a translator.

01:14:15.680 --> 01:14:18.400
You'll try? Okay.

01:14:18.520 --> 01:14:20.680
Come on, remove this man, please.

01:14:20.800 --> 01:14:23.920
So you still stay.
Let's see whether she's correct.

01:14:24.040 --> 01:14:28.280
We want to select women
who will have time...

01:14:28.400 --> 01:14:33.720
who will come to class with us
to learn how to speak publicly.

01:14:33.840 --> 01:14:37.680
Actress. Yes? Actor.

01:14:37.800 --> 01:14:40.920
Public speaking, like politicians.

01:14:41.040 --> 01:14:45.480
We are going to make women's lives better
for this community.

01:14:45.600 --> 01:14:48.800
We want to understand.
Maybe you will talk to me.

01:14:48.920 --> 01:14:53.640
About the problems women have, with
education, with choosing their own husband...

01:14:53.760 --> 01:14:55.320
To select your own husband.

01:14:55.440 --> 01:14:57.480
Any other problem, I don't know.

01:14:57.600 --> 01:14:59.520
They maybe have, like, rape.

01:15:01.600 --> 01:15:03.560
Do you know what rape is?
-Yes.

01:15:03.680 --> 01:15:09.640
She wants to teach us about women's
problems, teach about education and rape.

01:15:10.720 --> 01:15:14.240
All the Kings know that I am here.

01:15:14.360 --> 01:15:18.360
The pastors know that I am here.
-She has told elders that she's coming.

01:15:18.480 --> 01:15:21.120
So, do not be afraid.
-Don't be afraid.

01:15:26.240 --> 01:15:30.320
My own problem is capital
to sustain my business.

01:15:30.440 --> 01:15:33.520
I need to gather money,
that's my problem.

01:15:35.320 --> 01:15:38.200
They need money to run businesses.
-To run business.

01:15:38.320 --> 01:15:41.280
I didn't come here to give people money.

01:15:41.400 --> 01:15:43.760
She did not come here to share money.

01:15:43.880 --> 01:15:45.440
I come to teach.

01:15:45.560 --> 01:15:47.920
She came here to teach us.

01:15:48.040 --> 01:15:52.200
So I can help, but I come to teach.

01:15:52.320 --> 01:15:54.440
People who work with me...

01:15:54.560 --> 01:15:56.320
The people who are working with her...

01:15:56.440 --> 01:15:58.280
...they call me Mrs F.

01:15:58.400 --> 01:15:59.800
They call her Mrs F.

01:15:59.920 --> 01:16:03.200
Mrs F. Okay. Alright, class.

01:16:04.000 --> 01:16:07.800
Talk to these people.
Don't turn around. Just here.

01:16:09.280 --> 01:16:12.840
I was born in this town.

01:16:12.960 --> 01:16:15.760
As I got older
I saw this town as gentle.

01:16:15.880 --> 01:16:21.600
Everything was going well.
When I got to the age of 15 years...

01:16:21.720 --> 01:16:26.320
this town started to change.
When crisis starts, we hear 'gboo, gbaa'.

01:16:26.440 --> 01:16:30.120
When crisis starts, we women run into
the water, having nowhere else to go.

01:16:30.240 --> 01:16:33.280
Please, help us talk to the community.

01:16:36.240 --> 01:16:39.880
She's a pretender. This is an actress.

01:16:41.240 --> 01:16:42.880
Pretender.

01:16:46.160 --> 01:16:47.560
Actress, yes.

01:16:49.080 --> 01:16:53.120
Okay, let's move back.
Give them space. Move back.

01:16:56.520 --> 01:16:58.480
Come join this.

01:17:01.240 --> 01:17:04.680
Only if you are over fourteen.
Look at her dancing.

01:17:20.560 --> 01:17:23.040
Good. Good.

01:17:47.560 --> 01:17:50.240
You want tea?
-No, thank you.

01:17:50.360 --> 01:17:55.200
You want red pepper?
-No, thank you.

01:17:55.320 --> 01:17:58.080
What do you want with your omelette?
Toast?

01:17:59.160 --> 01:18:01.520
No, that's fine.

01:18:14.760 --> 01:18:20.520
For me the work with women empowerment
is definitely paralleled with my life.

01:18:20.640 --> 01:18:22.320
There's no doubt about it.

01:18:22.440 --> 01:18:25.800
Because there were many, many things
tying me down.

01:18:25.920 --> 01:18:30.520
Being the right type of woman,
the acceptable type of woman...

01:18:30.640 --> 01:18:33.520
the good daughter, the good mother.

01:18:33.640 --> 01:18:38.000
And it took a long time and a lot of pain...

01:18:38.120 --> 01:18:44.760
to have the courage to say:
'Screw it, I've got to live'.

01:18:44.880 --> 01:18:49.160
Okay, Mr Godwin. Let's go.
Take me to the rehearsal space.

01:18:52.000 --> 01:18:56.600
I've had confrontations with society,
confrontations with friends...

01:18:56.720 --> 01:18:59.160
and confrontations with my mother.

01:18:59.280 --> 01:19:04.160
My most significant transformative times
or experiences...

01:19:04.280 --> 01:19:07.440
have been when I
have stood up against women...

01:19:07.560 --> 01:19:11.240
who are gatekeepers
of a patriarchal system.

01:19:12.960 --> 01:19:17.280
And they themselves may not know
how much of a gatekeeper they are.

01:19:34.840 --> 01:19:37.800
Everybody will be here?
The only person who is...

01:19:37.920 --> 01:19:40.280
What happened?

01:19:40.400 --> 01:19:43.960
How are you?
-I'm sorry I'm late.

01:19:44.080 --> 01:19:46.040
Kneel down.
-Pick pin, pick pin.

01:19:46.160 --> 01:19:48.120
Kneel down, put your hand up...
-Come on, pick pin.

01:19:48.240 --> 01:19:52.040
What do you want me to do?
How many pins should I pick?

01:19:52.160 --> 01:19:54.360
Start, pick...

01:19:54.480 --> 01:19:58.200
I'm so sorry guys, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.

01:19:58.320 --> 01:20:02.560
Hey, Elvina.
I want you to join us quickly.

01:20:02.680 --> 01:20:05.160
When we finish the gist,
you greet everybody.

01:20:05.280 --> 01:20:08.680
I know everybody loves you
and your dress is causing waves.

01:20:08.800 --> 01:20:11.360
I need that same dress. Okay, okay.

01:20:11.480 --> 01:20:14.240
Makoko.

01:20:14.360 --> 01:20:15.720
Makoko.

01:20:15.840 --> 01:20:19.560
Very quickly, I'm going to give you
the overview of the project...

01:20:19.680 --> 01:20:22.640
and how crazy it's going to be.
How much adventure it is.

01:20:22.760 --> 01:20:27.240
Because of the short period of time
to do the vision that I have in mind.

01:20:27.360 --> 01:20:31.320
You will arrive into Makoko by boat...

01:20:31.440 --> 01:20:37.520
because even though there's a way to
come into Makoko by car it is not easy.

01:20:37.640 --> 01:20:40.960
Every five or six houses
is a new territory...

01:20:41.080 --> 01:20:46.840
with a new King and a new set
of area boys or thugs, okay?

01:20:46.960 --> 01:20:51.560
So as we are going,
we have negotiated the thoroughfare...

01:20:51.680 --> 01:20:54.000
to where the stage is.

01:20:54.120 --> 01:20:58.320
Now to describe the stage,
the idea is to create a stage...

01:20:58.440 --> 01:21:01.560
on the water, floating.

01:21:01.680 --> 01:21:04.320
It won't be floating, it's built underneath...

01:21:04.440 --> 01:21:07.320
but it will look
like it's floating on water.

01:21:07.440 --> 01:21:12.600
We're going to be joined today
by the ladies from Makoko.

01:21:12.720 --> 01:21:14.880
They are meeting us here
at three o'clock.

01:21:15.000 --> 01:21:17.400
As they get closer to the showtime...

01:21:17.520 --> 01:21:20.880
I anticipate
they may get more apprehensive...

01:21:21.000 --> 01:21:23.080
about talking in front of their community.

01:21:23.200 --> 01:21:25.640
What I would like, is that...

01:21:25.760 --> 01:21:29.440
And tell me if... You don't
have to meet them outside of here...

01:21:29.560 --> 01:21:34.720
but during rehearsal, I would like them to
be assigned to one person for questions.

01:21:34.840 --> 01:21:38.800
They sell at markets to make ends meet.
Their husbands are fishermen.

01:21:39.840 --> 01:21:43.200
Or they all trade.
We have two students.

01:21:43.320 --> 01:21:47.760
Two teenagers, and then the rest
are women with children.

01:21:54.520 --> 01:21:57.320
Aunty Christiana, we're late.

01:21:59.680 --> 01:22:02.640
We know.

01:22:04.240 --> 01:22:07.160
We'll be late. Time is running out.
What were you doing?

01:22:07.280 --> 01:22:09.600
You're late and we have been waiting.

01:22:09.720 --> 01:22:12.040
We know. We know.

01:22:23.000 --> 01:22:27.160
We confess, the dead cannot praise you.

01:22:27.280 --> 01:22:31.520
We confess, the dead cannot praise you.

01:22:31.640 --> 01:22:36.440
We confess and accept
the dead cannot praise you.

01:22:36.560 --> 01:22:40.480
We know you are the miracle worker.

01:22:40.600 --> 01:22:43.280
We confess Jesus
is the raiser of the dead.

01:22:43.400 --> 01:22:45.840
We confess you are the Almighty.

01:22:45.960 --> 01:22:49.720
We confess Jesus
is the raiser of the dead.

01:22:49.840 --> 01:22:54.280
We confess you are the Almighty.

01:22:56.520 --> 01:23:00.200
Okay, okay. Come out.
Come out.

01:23:00.320 --> 01:23:02.880
Welcome.
-Thank you, ma'am.

01:23:03.000 --> 01:23:08.000
These women have been waiting
for almost two hours for you to come.

01:23:08.120 --> 01:23:10.800
Just say: 'Sorry we are late'.

01:23:10.920 --> 01:23:15.000
Yeah, we should say that.
-We are all sorry that we are late.

01:23:15.120 --> 01:23:19.720
And for me: 'It will not happen again'.
-It will not happen again.

01:23:19.840 --> 01:23:22.320
Is anybody afraid?

01:23:26.440 --> 01:23:28.280
Nobody.
-Sena?

01:23:30.640 --> 01:23:34.120
Sena is a little bit afraid, yeah?
It's okay.

01:23:34.240 --> 01:23:38.800
She says she's afraid.
If she's afraid, she should say it out now.

01:23:38.920 --> 01:23:44.040
Okay, she said the dance we just danced is...
-Is warming her up?

01:23:44.160 --> 01:23:46.360
But is she a little afraid?

01:23:46.480 --> 01:23:50.040
Do you feel a little bit afraid?

01:23:50.160 --> 01:23:52.200
Yeah? Okay, so come.

01:23:52.320 --> 01:23:54.040
Okay, say it.

01:23:54.960 --> 01:23:56.640
I will not be afraid.

01:23:56.760 --> 01:23:59.320
I have courage.

01:23:59.440 --> 01:24:01.760
Again.
Tell her to keep repeating it.

01:24:01.880 --> 01:24:04.640
I will not be afraid. I have courage.

01:24:04.760 --> 01:24:07.960
Loud. Shout, shout.

01:24:08.080 --> 01:24:10.560
I will not be afraid. I have courage.

01:24:10.680 --> 01:24:12.080
Louder.

01:24:12.200 --> 01:24:15.440
I will not be afraid. I have courage.
-Yes.

01:24:15.560 --> 01:24:18.280
Okay, great. Good.

01:24:35.320 --> 01:24:36.880
Okay, great.

01:25:42.200 --> 01:25:44.000
Rasheeda,Do you want to cut meat?

01:25:51.560 --> 01:25:53.120
Is this 1000 Naira's worth?

01:26:08.320 --> 01:26:11.320
Bring him here.

01:26:17.160 --> 01:26:20.080
I don't like it.

01:26:21.760 --> 01:26:24.320
He strangled her.

01:26:25.600 --> 01:26:29.080
It's that guy.

01:26:29.200 --> 01:26:32.600
I'm telling you he strangled her.

01:26:40.280 --> 01:26:42.800
It's enough.
-They were fighting.

01:26:42.920 --> 01:26:48.640
It's enough. Let him talk.

01:26:48.760 --> 01:26:52.400
Come on, it's alright now.
It's enough.

01:26:52.520 --> 01:26:54.960
It's not fair. A young child.

01:26:55.080 --> 01:26:57.000
Mama Ige, did she do anything?

01:26:57.280 --> 01:26:59.360
You don't know him?

01:26:59.480 --> 01:27:02.480
She doesn't. She was shouting
and that drew my attention.

01:27:02.600 --> 01:27:05.160
I didn't get to finish my meal.

01:27:05.280 --> 01:27:10.360
Hello, did you know him before?
-No, I don't. He just came in suddenly.

01:27:10.480 --> 01:27:12.640
You don't know him?

01:27:12.760 --> 01:27:17.000
He asked me who I came to see
and I didn't answer him.

01:27:17.120 --> 01:27:19.920
The next thing, he tried to rape me.

01:27:27.880 --> 01:27:31.640
So a straight line.
-And then step forward.

01:27:31.760 --> 01:27:34.720
It is not like this, so it's like this.

01:27:38.280 --> 01:27:40.960
A community fails when...

01:27:41.960 --> 01:27:43.480
It's okay, Sena. Try.

01:27:43.600 --> 01:27:47.440
A community fails when...

01:27:47.560 --> 01:27:51.840
Christiana, give it to her.
-A community fails when...

01:27:51.960 --> 01:27:53.400
About boys and girls.

01:27:53.520 --> 01:27:57.640
A community fails when it does not
equally protect its members.

01:28:00.440 --> 01:28:02.840
It fails when a woman...

01:28:02.960 --> 01:28:07.920
upon her husband's passing is
stripped of all her worldly possessions.

01:28:08.840 --> 01:28:10.280
It fails when a woman...

01:28:10.400 --> 01:28:14.320
upon her husband's passing is
stripped of all her worldly possessions.

01:28:15.600 --> 01:28:20.520
It limits her, when it encourages her
to believe that her worth lies...

01:28:20.640 --> 01:28:23.440
only in her ability to produce children.

01:28:24.160 --> 01:28:26.800
It limits her, when it encourages her
to believe...

01:28:26.920 --> 01:28:31.800
that her worth lies only
in her ability to produce children.

01:28:31.920 --> 01:28:34.680
Don't put your hands behind your back.

01:28:34.800 --> 01:28:39.240
Your hands are going to be here,
but you can use your hands to talk.

01:28:40.320 --> 01:28:45.280
You understand? And you're going
to look at the audience straight ahead.

01:28:45.400 --> 01:28:48.040
Look at the audience, make eye contact.

01:28:48.160 --> 01:28:51.320
And talk to them very well.
Talk to them very well.

01:28:51.440 --> 01:28:53.720
Make sure to talk to the audience.

01:28:53.840 --> 01:28:59.320
Talk to all of them.
It's this and that and that. Bam!

01:28:59.440 --> 01:29:03.640
And this, and this, and this, is this.
Dadada. Bam!

01:29:03.760 --> 01:29:06.600
Do you understand?
Otherwise you're just going:

01:29:08.240 --> 01:29:14.120
No, that's not it. Okay, so let's go
to the back and try it one more time. Fire!

01:29:14.240 --> 01:29:20.640
A community fails when it does not
equally protect its members.

01:29:20.760 --> 01:29:24.560
A community fails when it does not
equally protect its members...

01:29:24.680 --> 01:29:28.960
...whether man, woman, old or young.
-Excellent.

01:29:29.080 --> 01:29:32.920
I only want to just ignite.
Just to be a small catalyst.

01:29:33.040 --> 01:29:35.360
I can't control it. Who am I?

01:29:35.480 --> 01:29:37.000
Who am I?

01:29:37.120 --> 01:29:39.000
I think the biggest challenge is

01:29:39.120 --> 01:29:44.920
that the women themselves will not
want to come away from what they know.

01:29:46.120 --> 01:29:50.040
It takes a lot of courage,
and that's what that play is about.

01:29:51.000 --> 01:29:53.080
When girls...

01:29:54.160 --> 01:29:56.280
That was great. Sorry.

01:29:56.400 --> 01:29:59.240
Rita. Take everything from under her.

01:30:00.640 --> 01:30:03.360
You took everything away
from under that woman.

01:30:03.480 --> 01:30:06.160
Your taking looked like this.
-Yes.

01:30:07.200 --> 01:30:09.240
Okay. Communicate. Let's go.

01:30:10.640 --> 01:30:13.920
A woman cannot do what God brought her
to do, if you keep telling her...

01:30:14.040 --> 01:30:17.720
that the only time she has value is
when she has given birth to many children.

01:30:18.800 --> 01:30:22.040
Old men play around
and sleep with children.

01:30:22.160 --> 01:30:25.880
It fails when it is incapable
of passing appeal.

01:30:26.000 --> 01:30:30.680
Okay, wait. You say it in Yoruba?

01:30:30.800 --> 01:30:33.240
I speak English.

01:30:33.360 --> 01:30:37.640
She's talking about when they sleep...
-When they sleep with children.

01:30:37.760 --> 01:30:40.080
So listen to me.
-So is like my line.

01:30:40.200 --> 01:30:47.080
Christiana, she told me that something
that really makes her annoyed...

01:30:47.200 --> 01:30:50.360
is when old men play around
and sleep with...

01:30:50.480 --> 01:30:53.200
and sexually molest young children.

01:30:53.320 --> 01:30:56.000
Tell her. She told me
that it makes her very angry.

01:30:56.120 --> 01:31:01.600
You told her it makes you very angry
when old men sleep with young children.

01:31:01.720 --> 01:31:04.320
I want her to get angry now.

01:31:04.440 --> 01:31:07.760
You understand. Okay.
So get angry.

01:31:07.880 --> 01:31:14.680
Old men play around
and sleep with children.

01:31:25.800 --> 01:31:29.720
Reason that, if you work for God...

01:31:31.000 --> 01:31:33.600
Jesus Christ will bless you.

01:31:34.520 --> 01:31:39.200
For this reason,
I beseech you to work for God.

01:31:39.320 --> 01:31:42.520
God will love you when you grow old.

01:31:42.640 --> 01:31:45.240
He will give you
certain grace and blessing.

01:31:45.360 --> 01:31:50.040
From this grace, He will give you more
blessings than you are supposed to receive.

01:31:51.080 --> 01:31:54.800
For this reason I beseech you
to work for God.

01:32:00.720 --> 01:32:02.880
One needs to be careful of men.

01:32:03.000 --> 01:32:05.480
Really careful.

01:32:09.400 --> 01:32:15.560
What worries me is if you
get entangled with men in talk.

01:32:15.680 --> 01:32:22.560
The result is a child
and I have not gotten to that stage.

01:32:26.720 --> 01:32:29.080
Leave me, I'm not interested.

01:32:29.200 --> 01:32:33.920
That's why I avoid men.
I don't want their trouble.

01:32:53.200 --> 01:32:57.240
It's all there.

01:33:17.280 --> 01:33:21.920
So Sena's interest is towards...

01:33:22.040 --> 01:33:26.680
the child molestation, the sexual abuse.

01:33:27.640 --> 01:33:31.760
I told them what happened to me
when I was four years old.

01:33:31.880 --> 01:33:35.560
She told us the story of
what happened to her at four years old.

01:33:35.680 --> 01:33:38.880
If I meet that guy, if I meet him...

01:33:39.000 --> 01:33:40.520
If she meets him...

01:33:40.640 --> 01:33:44.280
I would still report him to the police.
-She would still report him.

01:33:44.400 --> 01:33:50.800
Even though fifty years have passed,
I would still report him to the police.

01:33:50.920 --> 01:33:56.880
Even though it has been fifty years,
she would still report him to the police.

01:33:57.000 --> 01:34:04.080
Sena wanted to handle the abuse.
The child sexual abuse.

01:34:04.200 --> 01:34:10.360
But she is not yet sure
if she wants to be the one...

01:34:10.480 --> 01:34:15.600
to speak it herself, or if she wants
another person to speak it for her.

01:34:15.720 --> 01:34:19.600
You can be afraid to talk about it...

01:34:19.720 --> 01:34:21.320
but if you don't start...

01:34:23.000 --> 01:34:24.880
nobody will start.

01:34:25.000 --> 01:34:29.120
And you don't have to talk yourself.
You can let another person talk.

01:34:30.480 --> 01:34:32.200
It can't stop.

01:34:32.320 --> 01:34:36.920
We are here. How many of us are there?
One, two, three, four, five, six.

01:34:37.040 --> 01:34:40.840
Six people.
Not one has not experienced it.

01:34:40.960 --> 01:34:45.680
In Nigeria, if we put twenty people here,
I'm sure we may get one person...

01:34:45.800 --> 01:34:49.120
who has never been touched
before the age of 15.

01:34:49.240 --> 01:34:51.960
That is what is going on in Nigeria.

01:34:56.400 --> 01:35:00.440
So ask her: does she still
want to try to say it herself?

01:35:00.560 --> 01:35:03.200
Or should we give it to another person?

01:35:03.320 --> 01:35:08.280
Do you still want to do it...

01:35:08.400 --> 01:35:12.200
or should she give it to someone else?
She wants to know.

01:35:12.320 --> 01:35:16.200
I'll do it.
-She said she'll do it.

01:35:19.720 --> 01:35:21.320
Good.

01:35:22.880 --> 01:35:24.440
Relax.

01:35:26.440 --> 01:35:29.200
Look at the spot over there.

01:35:29.320 --> 01:35:33.560
Okay, then she should shout at them:
'Tell them, tell them.'

01:35:33.680 --> 01:35:38.080
Sena, 'Tell them, Tell them'. Okay?

01:35:38.200 --> 01:35:41.560
Then she scrapes away all the
grown men. She told you which one...

01:35:41.680 --> 01:35:44.760
They should be scraped away.

01:35:44.880 --> 01:35:47.600
All the grown men.

01:35:47.720 --> 01:35:51.400
All the grown men should be scraped away.

01:35:51.520 --> 01:35:54.920
That look for sex with young girls.

01:35:55.040 --> 01:35:57.560
Just like the bulldozer.

01:35:57.680 --> 01:36:01.400
Just like the bulldozer.

01:36:01.520 --> 01:36:04.080
They look for sex with young girls.

01:36:04.200 --> 01:36:06.800
Then you say 'merci' for the change.

01:36:06.920 --> 01:36:09.280
Merci.
-Okay. Alright.

01:36:09.400 --> 01:36:14.040
That's what I want her to work on now.
She's going to start working on it today.

01:36:15.760 --> 01:36:19.200
She should not be afraid.
It's important that they hear it.

01:36:19.320 --> 01:36:22.480
It will be better
for all the women in the community.

01:36:22.600 --> 01:36:27.920
She's the messenger. It's not from her.
It's the message of all the women.

01:38:26.280 --> 01:38:29.040
Verse 22 to 23.

01:38:29.160 --> 01:38:34.600
Verse 22 to 23.

01:38:34.720 --> 01:38:42.320
It goes: 'wives submit to your husband
and to the Lord.

01:38:42.440 --> 01:38:45.760
For the husband is the head of the wives.

01:38:45.880 --> 01:38:53.400
As the Christ is the head of the church.
Its body wishes He is the saviour.'

01:38:57.880 --> 01:39:03.040
You, come. Where have you been
that I have not been seeing you?

01:39:03.160 --> 01:39:05.120
Chérie, Chérie!

01:39:05.240 --> 01:39:07.280
I started work.
That's why you didn't see me.

01:39:07.400 --> 01:39:11.880
Where do you work?
-Iwaya. It has kept me busy.

01:39:19.720 --> 01:39:23.040
I will have to buy you a phone,
so I can hear your voice.

01:39:23.160 --> 01:39:26.880
I don't want a phone.

01:39:27.000 --> 01:39:31.280
Don't worry. We'll look into it.
Be on your way and see you later.

01:39:31.400 --> 01:39:34.760
Take your hand off my daughter.
Leave her alone.

01:39:37.320 --> 01:39:42.000
What, you don't see
any other nice girls around?

01:39:42.120 --> 01:39:47.680
I haven't married her so relax.
-Just take your hands off my daughter.

01:39:52.600 --> 01:39:54.400
Shut up.

01:39:54.520 --> 01:39:57.240
Sit down. Sit down, sit down.

01:40:00.520 --> 01:40:07.080
A man is a man,
because God created a woman from man.

01:40:08.320 --> 01:40:11.720
That is why a man must be a head.

01:40:12.960 --> 01:40:15.720
It's not from us, it's from God.

01:40:15.840 --> 01:40:18.880
Men are better than women.

01:40:19.000 --> 01:40:22.480
You know, the baby boys
stay at home and marry...

01:40:22.600 --> 01:40:27.120
women from another place.
The women marry another family.

01:40:27.240 --> 01:40:30.640
So the woman no longer
bears the name of the family.

01:41:20.840 --> 01:41:25.880
Men touch women as they please.

01:41:26.000 --> 01:41:29.440
If they talk to a lady
who walks alone at night...

01:41:29.560 --> 01:41:33.440
and she doesn't consent
she could get raped.

01:41:34.400 --> 01:41:42.200
I should leave Makoko for a place cool
and calm with no trouble whatsoever.

01:41:42.320 --> 01:41:45.040
That's what I desire.

01:41:45.160 --> 01:41:48.480
Is that going to be enough?
Give me more.

01:41:49.360 --> 01:41:51.080
Give me more.

01:42:18.240 --> 01:42:22.440
Okay, so 40 feet.
-That's 40.

01:42:22.560 --> 01:42:26.960
Let him go a little bit out. I need a
platform for where the drummers will be.

01:42:28.200 --> 01:42:32.400
Okay, so come this way.
Just a little. That's good.

01:42:32.520 --> 01:42:36.240
I just want only two boats' lengths.

01:42:36.360 --> 01:42:39.440
The length of two small boats,
and that's it.

01:42:42.880 --> 01:42:45.400
Where are you going to get bamboo from?
-Bamboo?

01:42:45.520 --> 01:42:51.040
You see, I told you. Where is your bamboo
that I ordered this morning or yesterday?

01:42:51.160 --> 01:42:54.440
Let's bring it. Let me see it.
-This guy wants to go first.

01:42:55.600 --> 01:42:58.680
But right now,
I'm not seeing wood or bamboo.

01:43:10.440 --> 01:43:14.640
I understand that the fishermen...

01:43:14.760 --> 01:43:18.880
are complaining about the location
of the platform.

01:43:19.000 --> 01:43:21.120
So...

01:43:21.240 --> 01:43:23.560
And the King has asked me
to come to talk.

01:43:23.680 --> 01:43:27.800
The fishermen need to be
where you are putting it.

01:43:27.920 --> 01:43:30.080
They know you are a visitor.

01:43:30.200 --> 01:43:36.960
My vision or my plan was that that
platform would become a women's centre.

01:43:37.080 --> 01:43:41.400
So that even after the show finishes,
the women will still use it.

01:43:41.520 --> 01:43:45.040
If the fishermen feel
that the platform is disturbing them...

01:43:45.160 --> 01:43:47.520
they might scatter the platform.

01:43:47.640 --> 01:43:51.680
When we were doing our work,
the fishermen were not very nice to us.

01:43:51.800 --> 01:43:54.040
They were very...

01:43:54.160 --> 01:43:56.480
They were very...

01:43:56.600 --> 01:43:59.960
They were rough.
-Because the Kings were not there.

01:44:00.080 --> 01:44:05.440
So maybe if we go there, then we can
talk about it, if they see you with us.

01:44:07.600 --> 01:44:13.040
Nobody will harass me now, when they
see me with the King and the pastor.

01:44:13.160 --> 01:44:15.320
Two Kings and one pastor.

01:44:16.880 --> 01:44:20.960
They should see me. Everybody
should see, all these fishermen.

01:44:22.040 --> 01:44:24.800
Yeah, morning. Well done.

01:44:26.360 --> 01:44:29.800
Where those stakes are,
that is exactly where the platform is.

01:44:29.920 --> 01:44:33.360
Where you so those long poles,
that that guy is holding now.

01:44:33.480 --> 01:44:38.200
My only thing is just to make sure
that people can get to the platform.

01:44:38.320 --> 01:44:42.800
And that there is no anger
over the platform.

01:44:42.920 --> 01:44:46.200
Fisherman and our women's platform.
-No, no.

01:44:46.320 --> 01:44:49.440
So, well okay.
If that's fine, then I'm good.

01:44:49.560 --> 01:44:52.360
Bye, guys. Give me a hug.

01:44:54.960 --> 01:44:57.280
You guys missed basketball today?

01:44:59.840 --> 01:45:03.440
You missed it, that's what I'm saying.
Is that mine?

01:45:03.560 --> 01:45:06.240
Yes, here. See you, sweet.
-Thanks, alright.

01:45:07.680 --> 01:45:12.600
Can you please call me 6:30
if you can't come?

01:45:12.720 --> 01:45:14.840
Alright, see you.
-Okay.

01:45:32.600 --> 01:45:37.200
You guys are not spending the whole
day on this television, is that clear?

01:45:38.920 --> 01:45:40.680
Hello, madam.

01:45:40.800 --> 01:45:42.880
As soon as you do...

01:45:43.000 --> 01:45:45.320
One more game.
You will play a regular game.

01:45:45.440 --> 01:45:48.240
Go up to the playroom
and do some real work.

01:45:48.360 --> 01:45:51.520
Play real games with real humans.

01:45:55.400 --> 01:45:58.360
I don't understand the next move.

01:45:58.480 --> 01:46:03.640
Okay. Up, up, down.
Up, up, two times, and down.

01:46:23.440 --> 01:46:24.920
Good afternoon everyone.

01:47:10.640 --> 01:47:15.000
I want to study very hard.

01:47:15.120 --> 01:47:21.160
I don't know yet, but I think
I would like to become a doctor.

01:47:21.280 --> 01:47:27.760
Or a lawyer or an actress.

01:47:28.800 --> 01:47:34.400
Stop. You're disturbing her.
You didn't go to school.

01:47:35.480 --> 01:47:42.160
The only obstacle I see is Makoko.

01:47:42.280 --> 01:47:46.160
The men are terrible with women.

01:47:46.280 --> 01:47:51.440
I desire to leave Makoko.

01:47:53.760 --> 01:47:58.000
So if they decide because you are a girl,
you won't be a medical doctor.

01:47:58.120 --> 01:48:01.480
It's time to go and marry, instead.
How would you feel?

01:48:01.600 --> 01:48:03.800
Angry.
-You feel angry.

01:48:03.920 --> 01:48:05.960
You feel like they are cheating you.

01:48:06.080 --> 01:48:10.840
Or you feel sad, maybe you are sad.
-Yes.

01:48:10.960 --> 01:48:12.520
Feel it now.

01:48:15.320 --> 01:48:17.920
Okay, now tell them.

01:48:18.040 --> 01:48:23.160
Tell those people sitting out there what
it is that you're feeling now. Tell them.

01:48:23.280 --> 01:48:27.560
Even though I am a girl...

01:48:27.680 --> 01:48:30.720
I will go to school.

01:48:30.840 --> 01:48:33.600
Now, you see that old man
sitting over there?

01:48:33.720 --> 01:48:36.320
Tell that old man sitting there.
Tell him.

01:48:36.440 --> 01:48:38.640
I will go to school. Say it.

01:48:38.760 --> 01:48:40.640
I will go to school.

01:48:40.760 --> 01:48:43.600
I'm not... You are not convincing,
you are smiling.

01:48:43.720 --> 01:48:46.560
Tell me, come.
-I will finish my school.

01:48:46.680 --> 01:48:49.000
That's it, come, tell me.

01:48:49.120 --> 01:48:52.440
You will not finish your school.
You are smiling.

01:48:52.560 --> 01:48:55.640
You will not finish your school.
You are smiling.

01:48:55.760 --> 01:48:58.800
This is not a joke. Tell me.

01:48:58.920 --> 01:49:04.040
I will go to school. I will go
to university. I will be a doctor.

01:49:04.160 --> 01:49:05.200
That's it.

01:49:18.680 --> 01:49:22.200
I like it. It fits.

01:49:26.520 --> 01:49:28.520
That's pretty.

01:49:29.560 --> 01:49:31.840
Put this one on Jacqueline's neck.

01:49:34.440 --> 01:49:37.840
Maybe Burgundy red
or something like that.

01:49:37.960 --> 01:49:43.240
He's got it, that kind of gloss.
-Smack your lips.

01:49:46.800 --> 01:49:49.200
I don't think, for them, you need...

01:49:49.320 --> 01:49:55.600
You don't need eyeshadow,
but you need mascara for sure.

01:49:55.720 --> 01:49:59.000
Let's see. Okay, you're good.

01:50:01.840 --> 01:50:04.320
Everybody look in here?
Good.

01:50:13.320 --> 01:50:14.640
I know where I'm going.

01:50:14.760 --> 01:50:17.520
We're going to hang a poster.
See you later.

01:50:20.360 --> 01:50:22.520
Where would be good?

01:50:22.640 --> 01:50:26.000
Maybe...
-Should we place it here?

01:50:29.480 --> 01:50:32.360
It's okay there. Right there.

01:50:33.880 --> 01:50:36.160
So... higher.

01:50:36.280 --> 01:50:39.560
You need a chair to stand.
If it will go higher.

01:50:39.680 --> 01:50:42.160
Alright. Chair.

01:50:43.600 --> 01:50:45.640
Put it here. Here.

01:50:49.280 --> 01:50:50.960
Are you doing it right?

01:50:52.440 --> 01:50:53.840
Don't let it fall.

01:51:00.200 --> 01:51:03.360
None of you are pretty in reality.

01:51:08.320 --> 01:51:11.000
Ready, right?
-Ready.

01:51:20.680 --> 01:51:24.400
Men always said that women are nothing.

01:51:24.520 --> 01:51:28.960
But I know
that we have the power to rule.

01:51:29.080 --> 01:51:32.520
What can men do
that women cannot do?

01:51:46.040 --> 01:51:52.440
I was 22 when I got pregnant.

01:51:53.360 --> 01:51:58.840
I have four children.

01:52:02.240 --> 01:52:08.680
My husband's friends

01:52:08.800 --> 01:52:13.720
advised him to take a second wife

01:52:13.840 --> 01:52:17.640
since I gave him only daughters.

01:52:30.680 --> 01:52:35.800
It's dangerous.
You can fall in the water.

01:52:40.840 --> 01:52:42.960
Come and put it here.

01:52:53.640 --> 01:52:59.120
I'm not worried about men now,
but about having money.

01:52:59.240 --> 01:53:02.880
Doing good business,
paying my rent and living well.

01:53:28.000 --> 01:53:30.400
Rita, help me share this.

01:53:34.000 --> 01:53:36.480
'The hope is less about the penis'.

01:53:36.600 --> 01:53:40.000
It's Rebecca's line
because that line is very important.

01:53:40.120 --> 01:53:44.320
It doesn't matter
how many children you have.

01:53:44.440 --> 01:53:49.040
We only start counting
from the first penis.

01:53:49.160 --> 01:53:51.520
How do you say that?

01:53:51.640 --> 01:53:55.840
Penis.

01:53:55.960 --> 01:53:59.400
It's the biological word.
The one they use in the hospital.

01:53:59.520 --> 01:54:02.560
A child's penis or an adult's penis...
let me ask.

01:54:02.680 --> 01:54:07.200
A child's penis and an adult's penis.
What is the difference?

01:54:07.320 --> 01:54:11.360
The uncut nature.

01:54:11.480 --> 01:54:14.240
We should use that one.

01:54:14.360 --> 01:54:17.680
It is interesting to know
that one language...

01:54:17.800 --> 01:54:23.840
has that many names
for different kinds of penises.

01:54:23.960 --> 01:54:26.920
We're doing it. Let's do it,
we got to get the show.

01:54:27.040 --> 01:54:29.560
Quickly.
Let's go. Let's go.

01:54:29.680 --> 01:54:33.800
The lead is not here.
Even the people in the piece are not here.

01:54:33.960 --> 01:54:37.480
Right. And we have like four days
till the show.

01:54:43.560 --> 01:54:48.480
I'm fine, I'm just exhausted.
It's just exhausting to be translating...

01:54:48.600 --> 01:54:53.840
from English to Gwom, to English,
to Egun, to Gombi, to...

01:54:53.960 --> 01:54:59.280
back to English and then back and forth.
It just takes forever, you know?

01:55:01.720 --> 01:55:07.800
I think that we've had some
challenges around the platform.

01:55:07.920 --> 01:55:14.600
You know, I mean, that whole thing we
experienced with fishermen trying to...

01:55:14.720 --> 01:55:19.240
cut, you know, trying to shift
the platform or stop the project.

01:55:19.360 --> 01:55:23.760
Of course, a lot of things are money in
that community. If you're ready to pay.

01:55:23.880 --> 01:55:28.520
You know, it's a large amount of money,
I'm sure people will change their minds.

01:55:28.640 --> 01:55:32.680
But to go report to the Kings
that they can't do their work...

01:55:32.800 --> 01:55:37.440
You know the Kings are like, 'what is
that? We told you you could do it.'

01:55:37.560 --> 01:55:41.400
And now that has caused
maybe four days of delay.

01:55:41.520 --> 01:55:45.000
Alright, okay. Alright, bye, bye.

01:55:45.120 --> 01:55:46.800
Bye.

01:55:57.680 --> 01:56:00.040
Move, move, move.
Don't put hands on me.

01:56:00.160 --> 01:56:03.840
Mind yourself.

01:56:03.960 --> 01:56:07.760
Don't touch me like that again.
Behave yourself.

01:56:19.160 --> 01:56:21.720
History has been made.

01:56:21.840 --> 01:56:28.000
Our legendary actresses
are now on the platform.

01:56:28.120 --> 01:56:32.920
The most powerful women
in Nollywood, acting and theatre...

01:56:33.040 --> 01:56:35.360
are now standing on this platform.

01:56:35.480 --> 01:56:38.200
It's you, the Makoko women.

01:56:40.640 --> 01:56:43.600
I say, a man that beats women is a monkey.

01:56:43.720 --> 01:56:45.760
A man that beats women is a monkey.

01:56:45.880 --> 01:56:49.200
Three cheers for men
that do not beat women.

01:56:57.360 --> 01:57:02.440
Stay right there.
Hello, ladies and gentlemen.

01:57:03.480 --> 01:57:05.560
Yes, widen their positions.

01:57:09.880 --> 01:57:14.240
You're going to have to put
glow tape on the ground.

01:57:27.400 --> 01:57:32.400
It is important to listen tonight.

01:57:32.520 --> 01:57:34.800
For everyone.

01:57:36.480 --> 01:57:39.200
Listen attentively.

01:57:39.520 --> 01:57:43.280
Tomorrow the women of Makoko
will perform on stage.

01:57:46.000 --> 01:57:49.400
Bring all your friends and family.

01:57:49.520 --> 01:57:51.680
It starts at seven. Be on time.

01:57:51.800 --> 01:57:54.200
Listen attentively.

01:57:54.320 --> 01:57:59.680
Nobody should miss this important message
for all the community.

01:58:00.200 --> 01:58:06.000
Come to the White Garmen Church
to witness this spectacle.

01:58:06.120 --> 01:58:09.480
Everyone should be there.

01:58:09.600 --> 01:58:16.120
Come by boat, come on foot.
But be there on time.

01:58:16.240 --> 01:58:24.120
'Mi Setonu'. Come and listen. It's free.

01:58:43.760 --> 01:58:48.000
One hour to showtime.
-One hour.

01:58:48.120 --> 01:58:53.360
Everybody, less than one hour to showtime,
we're getting off, let's go.

01:58:57.680 --> 01:59:01.080
You will be in our VIP section.

01:59:03.440 --> 01:59:06.000
Crusher.
-Okay, I'm coming back to Crusher.

01:59:06.120 --> 01:59:11.560
General of the area. Very nice.
Crusher, nice to meet you again.

01:59:11.680 --> 01:59:14.680
He's general here,
and I'm general somewhere else.

01:59:14.800 --> 01:59:18.280
So the two generals are meeting. Great.

01:59:19.360 --> 01:59:21.080
Pastor.

01:59:21.600 --> 01:59:23.720
Reverend.

01:59:25.400 --> 01:59:27.400
Welcome, welcome.

01:59:28.720 --> 01:59:32.760
Yes, thank you. Thank you for visiting.
Thank you for coming.

01:59:46.600 --> 01:59:49.400
Amen. Thank you, break a leg.

01:59:49.520 --> 01:59:52.440
May the grace of my Lord
Jesus Christ, the love of God...

01:59:52.560 --> 01:59:58.680
and his fellowship of the Holy Spirit,
be with us now and forever more. Amen.

02:00:00.320 --> 02:00:02.640
We're ready now, we're ready.

02:00:04.360 --> 02:00:09.200
Michael, I thought you said
you have extra people, man. Michael.

02:00:09.320 --> 02:00:11.800
You were supposed to have extra people.

02:00:44.840 --> 02:00:49.800
Good evening. We are here
to celebrate the women of Makoko.

02:00:59.440 --> 02:01:05.000
It starts with a look, then a whistle,
then a word and then more words.

02:01:05.120 --> 02:01:10.240
I try to serve their drinks quickly, but
after serving them they won't let me leave.

02:01:10.360 --> 02:01:16.960
They want me to sit with them. They want me
to talk with them and they like to touch me.

02:01:17.080 --> 02:01:20.640
I have my homework,
I want to help my mother with her restaurant.

02:01:20.760 --> 02:01:22.840
But these men are making it difficult.

02:01:29.840 --> 02:01:33.280
They are talking to you. It's you!

02:01:41.040 --> 02:01:45.400
My husband, for four days
you haven't spoken to me.

02:01:45.520 --> 02:01:48.040
My words are like an empty breeze.

02:01:48.160 --> 02:01:52.880
Last time, you said you didn't want a woman
whose attention is occupied by work.

02:01:53.720 --> 02:01:58.320
Immediately, I stopped my trading.

02:01:58.440 --> 02:02:03.240
After all, a good wife
always listens to her husband.

02:02:03.360 --> 02:02:09.440
My husband, last night
when I came to your bed, you turned away.

02:02:11.760 --> 02:02:13.840
It was like the day...

02:02:17.480 --> 02:02:20.200
I found out about your children
outside our marriage.

02:02:20.960 --> 02:02:24.720
I asked you to bring them home.

02:02:27.640 --> 02:02:30.480
Dear husband, my crown, my leader...

02:02:30.600 --> 02:02:34.480
owner of all, greatest.
Please speak to me.

02:02:34.680 --> 02:02:39.040
If there are more children,
bring them home.

02:02:48.120 --> 02:02:51.680
Listen. Listen and learn.

02:02:51.800 --> 02:02:54.720
Let the house rat tell the field rat.

02:02:54.840 --> 02:02:59.320
Come closer and listen
to these words of wisdom.

02:02:59.440 --> 02:03:02.960
It is despicable for us to maltreat women.

02:03:03.080 --> 02:03:08.360
Our mothers, daughters, sisters and wives.

02:03:12.200 --> 02:03:15.760
And it's unacceptable for women
to accept to be degraded or abused.

02:03:15.880 --> 02:03:19.880
Let us drink the water of wisdom,
both men and women.

02:03:20.000 --> 02:03:22.920
The glory of the nation would improve.

02:03:23.040 --> 02:03:26.600
If we had been using the strength
which we use to oppress innocent women.

02:03:26.720 --> 02:03:30.920
Instead, bring them closer
and help them grow.

02:03:31.040 --> 02:03:34.360
So they can help us
make this community greater.

02:03:34.480 --> 02:03:37.880
It takes many pillars to support a building.

02:03:38.000 --> 02:03:44.920
So we can work together to improve
the glory of this community.

02:03:47.960 --> 02:03:53.480
The time is now. Enough is enough.
Step up. Stand up. Speak up!

02:03:53.600 --> 02:03:58.160
Accept nothing less.
It is time for change!

02:04:03.480 --> 02:04:07.960
I spoke the truth or did I not?
-You did!

02:04:14.040 --> 02:04:18.680
I love this village
and I am proud of my culture.

02:04:18.800 --> 02:04:24.640
We are all afraid that one dark night...

02:04:24.760 --> 02:04:27.800
diggers will come.

02:04:27.920 --> 02:04:31.720
And scrape my village away
with a bulldozer.

02:04:31.840 --> 02:04:37.680
I often think about what a young girl
like me can do to help.

02:04:37.800 --> 02:04:40.720
It is a big problem for our leaders.

02:04:40.840 --> 02:04:44.720
However, I do know of one simple thing
that our leader can do immediately...

02:04:44.840 --> 02:04:48.600
to improve the life
of every girl in the village.

02:04:48.720 --> 02:04:54.440
Just like the diggers, our leader should
scrape away any grown man in the village...

02:04:54.560 --> 02:04:58.120
who attempts to have a sexual
relationship with an under-aged girl.

02:04:58.240 --> 02:04:59.640
Merci.

02:05:02.520 --> 02:05:05.520
She finished it. She finished it.

02:06:18.480 --> 02:06:25.240
When they started
the rehearsals in this church...

02:06:25.360 --> 02:06:27.760
I usually came to watch them.

02:06:28.800 --> 02:06:34.400
But when the play was presented publicly...

02:06:34.520 --> 02:06:36.120
I went there too.

02:06:37.200 --> 02:06:38.760
On that day...

02:06:39.920 --> 02:06:42.760
I was amazed.

02:06:42.880 --> 02:06:44.520
I was amazed.

02:06:45.200 --> 02:06:47.360
What stunned me was...

02:06:47.480 --> 02:06:52.480
that the things I used to see elsewhere...

02:06:52.600 --> 02:06:55.280
I wished would never happen to us.

02:06:55.400 --> 02:06:58.280
So, is it happening here?

02:06:58.400 --> 02:07:00.480
Well, it is a big lesson.

02:07:00.600 --> 02:07:05.880
To all men that they have no right
to beat up their wives.

02:07:07.680 --> 02:07:10.440
The Bible says:

02:07:10.560 --> 02:07:16.840
What God has joined together
let no person separate.

02:07:20.040 --> 02:07:22.360
In this 21st century...

02:07:22.480 --> 02:07:27.440
If we do not empower women,
we will be cheating ourselves.

02:07:27.560 --> 02:07:30.520
Women, they are not slaves.

02:07:31.840 --> 02:07:35.120
But if women are put
in a position of power...

02:07:35.240 --> 02:07:37.800
sometimes women misuse that position.

02:07:39.280 --> 02:07:47.440
Some women want their husbands
to marry two, three, four wives.

02:07:47.560 --> 02:07:57.440
Some even push their man until he
succumbs to marrying another woman.

02:07:58.680 --> 02:08:03.480
Even four wives to one husband
is nothing to them.

02:08:03.600 --> 02:08:10.840
Because they have been taught
by their mothers and grandmothers.

02:08:10.960 --> 02:08:16.640
So it's not that men want to do it.

02:08:16.760 --> 02:08:19.280
So, that's how it is.

02:08:19.880 --> 02:08:22.120
If my daughter, with her education...

02:08:22.240 --> 02:08:25.480
marries as a second wife,
I won't be happy.

02:08:25.600 --> 02:08:29.920
If she is the first wife,
I do not mind too much...

02:08:30.040 --> 02:08:36.720
but if she's the second or third wife,
no, I won't be happy.

02:09:02.360 --> 02:09:04.760
Turn carefully.

02:09:06.000 --> 02:09:10.360
You are welcome. Oh, my darling.

02:09:11.040 --> 02:09:15.440
Come in, come in, come in, come in.

02:09:15.560 --> 02:09:20.680
I forgot how to use these boats.
-Don't worry, come in.

02:09:20.800 --> 02:09:23.440
My darling.

02:09:23.560 --> 02:09:25.840
You are welcome.

02:09:28.440 --> 02:09:31.480
How are you?
-Fine, love.

02:09:31.600 --> 02:09:33.720
They never have any meetings.
-No.

02:09:40.720 --> 02:09:44.880
Jacqueline, my pinkie.

02:09:45.000 --> 02:09:48.680
Sena. What's this?
Let me see your face.

02:09:49.400 --> 02:09:52.360
Oh sister Rebecca also has a baby?

02:09:53.760 --> 02:09:57.280
Everybody should tell me
what happened after the show.

02:09:57.400 --> 02:10:00.000
Did anything change?
-Yes.

02:10:00.120 --> 02:10:02.000
What happened? You start.

02:10:02.120 --> 02:10:08.440
I'll start. When I was on the stage saying
'It starts with a look, then a whistle'.

02:10:08.560 --> 02:10:15.920
I noticed that the boys at our restaurant
don't touch me anymore.

02:10:16.560 --> 02:10:20.040
Men love them.
-So they have respect?

02:10:20.160 --> 02:10:22.360
That's a lie. The King is lying.

02:10:23.440 --> 02:10:28.160
I like how you're telling the King he is
a liar. That means the show has worked.

02:10:28.280 --> 02:10:30.440
You feel strong enough to tell the King.

02:10:30.560 --> 02:10:37.160
Before we did the show,
you couldn't talk, now you can talk to him.

02:10:38.640 --> 02:10:44.280
Since the day you left,
they haven't come for a meeting.

02:10:44.400 --> 02:10:50.320
I haven't even seen any do a meeting.
-No leadership?

02:10:50.440 --> 02:10:52.600
Any of them.
-You didn't do leadership?

02:10:52.720 --> 02:10:58.400
You are not agreeing.
-That is stage 2, we'll have a meeting.

02:10:58.520 --> 02:11:02.640
Every week.
-Be organized as a community together.

02:11:02.760 --> 02:11:07.600
If something happens to her,
listen, if something happens to her...

02:11:07.720 --> 02:11:12.240
she should be able to tell. All of you
should come together and help her.

02:11:12.360 --> 02:11:14.640
That's women supporting women.

02:11:14.760 --> 02:11:19.440
No women have ever seen any women
gather in this village, not even one.

02:11:19.560 --> 02:11:22.640
The only time you gathered here
is when we did the show.

02:11:22.760 --> 02:11:24.880
The King is on your side.

02:11:25.000 --> 02:11:26.840
Tell the King as a group.

02:11:26.960 --> 02:11:32.040
Do you think that by yourself you can
make a difference, as one person?

02:11:32.160 --> 02:11:37.040
Imagine that there are
ten or twenty or fifty of you.

02:11:41.560 --> 02:11:44.680
If you've never had a conversation
with your father-in-law...

02:11:44.800 --> 02:11:47.400
let alone with the King of the town...

02:11:47.520 --> 02:11:50.080
Now of all sudden you're a teenager...

02:11:50.200 --> 02:11:57.440
and you're having a conversation with the
highest ranking official in your community.

02:11:57.560 --> 02:12:01.280
Already everything has changed.

02:12:04.680 --> 02:12:08.240
Definitely, you can see a transformation
in some of the women...

02:12:08.360 --> 02:12:12.720
but it's like you open a door
and then you shut the door.

02:12:12.840 --> 02:12:15.320
Goodbye, goodbye.

02:12:16.400 --> 02:12:19.480
A couple of them I feel worried about.

02:12:19.600 --> 02:12:23.160
And some of them
just went through the door easily.

02:13:26.480 --> 02:13:30.400
Mi Setonu changed a lot of things.

02:13:30.520 --> 02:13:35.760
That what we brought was good.

02:13:35.880 --> 02:13:42.960
What I see is that I will be the one
to take my family away from poverty...

02:13:46.680 --> 02:13:50.720
What I thought was that they
may take me outside of the country.

02:13:52.000 --> 02:13:59.120
But people now see me
as a successful person.

02:13:59.240 --> 02:14:02.800
I never thought I would get there.

02:14:02.920 --> 02:14:08.160
I never knew that I could stand out.