Young Nigerians Sit And Talk About Their History in the Documentary “No Victors #Ozoemena”

“…Because the main perpetrators of this war are still alive. Are they going to allow these people to come and screen a movie painting them in a bad light?”

“We don’t have a foundation of historical knowledge for our kids growing up. The accounts are hardly ever true”

“There are so many doors I can’t walk through being an Igbo man in this country”

“We are still a nation where we want to take one side as the whole truth”

There’s a famous quote that states that “those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it, [and t]hose who do not remember their past are condemned to repeat their mistakes.”.

These are the basic tenets filmmaker Ifeoma Chukwuogo builds on in her brief documentary titled “No Victors #Ozoemena”. In the video below, 12 young Nigerians are in conversation on their nation’s dark past, its ripple effects and the wounds still healing. As they discuss the Nigerian Civil War and what they know about Biafra “50 years later”.

Watch the Documentary Below