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The treasonous state and postcolonial precarity: Femi Odugbemi’s Makoko as ‘victim documentary’

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Analysis reveals Makoko’s focus on social death in Nigeria, highlighting the plight of vulnerable children.

Makoko reveals the impact of necropower on urban victims in Nigeria, particularly vulnerable children.
The film documents the humanitarian crisis caused by postcolonial misgovernance in Lagos's slums.
Odugbemi’s work as a socially committed filmmaker aims to challenge indifference toward human suffering.
The documentary genre serves to bear witness to the everyday struggles of the marginalized in postcolonial urban spaces.

Paul Ushang Ugor (2025) studied this question.

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