Lola Shoneyin and Made Kuti Team Up in New Spoken Word Performance for Financial Times

Eniola Emmanuel
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What is it like when coups and military dictatorships threaten your democracy? Nigerian poet and author Lola Shoneyin tells us in her poem.

Democratic freedoms can vanish in a gunshot, warns the Nigerian writer in a powerful film featuring poetry, dance, and an original score from Made Kuti, the grandson of Fela Kuti.

This is part of four films by Financial Times from around the world examining the state of democracy, government, rights and freedoms.

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