Our Bodies,
Nigeria’s Ghosts (2025) 19’

Our Bodies Nigeria’s Ghosts is a film I made from thinking about how archives are cemeteries. We need cemeteries to visit our forebears and to remember the context from which our present moment emerged.

But cemeteries are not the only places we can meet our forebears or remember. Nigeria’s (colonial, military, civil war, civic, domestic, etc.) ghosts live on in us… the haunted ghosts and those who have found peace. They speak through our bodies, they move us. Before they died, they taught us how to move (what I mean when I talk of ‘dance’ in the film), the same way that we will teach those who come after us.

With this film, I’m arguing that, hey we’re not doomed to what we inherited, and that we too have a say. And if we listen to our bodies’ (human, collective, ecological) dance, it will show us both what our parents are about and what we are about.

Remembering is necessary, but if we think we can only remember in a cemetery, we deny the truth we carry, we deprive ourselves and our forebears of a living relationship between us, and we kill knowledge.

Our Bodies, Nigeria’s Ghosts was produced during the Goethe-Institut Nigeria's post-Memory, post-Archive fellowship (2024-2025).