On 14th June 2017, seven formidable and
distinguished Nigerian artists, of the Nigerian movie industry embarked
on a 3-day script- conference in Lagos on the story – ‘Girls’ for Sale’...
‘Girls’ for Sale’ is a story written by Kehinde Omoru, a freelance
journalist for THISDAY Newspaper, a UK registered and practicing nurse,
one of Nigeria’s upcoming story tellers and movie producers.
Conferring to critique, analyze and
filter this great work of entertainment and advocacy were Fred Amata –
story critique, actor and director , Kate Henshaw – actor, story
critique and production designer, Aghogho Akpoyibo – medical adviser,
CRS advocate , Abiola Tayo-Afolabi – story critique, script writer with
romantic slant, Damijo Efe Young – script writer, director, casting
director, Stanley Isokoh – script writer with comedy slant, Sikaa Udiak –
film watcher and cinema goer and Opa Williams – conference convener.
Production facilitator – Girls’ for Sale.
Omoru explains that this story is a
“double whammy” in that it is firstly an entertainment work of art.
Secondly, and not in the least less importantly, it burrows into the
many ways our girls have long gone on sale!
The movie, Girls’ for Sale masterfully manipulates the plot to journey
into some whys of this. It explores an increasingly common consequence
of this “buy one get one free” sales phenomenon and gently intones the
ways out, for posterity sake.
Several themes reverberate in this
script. You might find yourself captivated by the throes of adolescence
masterfully unraveled by the two lead characters, or by how severely
power and wealth could reduce poverty to nonentity. Perhaps your
memories of this movie would be the triumph (should you consider it so)
of its protagonist – but not without the scars.
Cultural African thoughts about the
Girl-child dominates this story and begs for immediate and sustained reorientation's to begin individually, clannishly, tribally, nationally
and indeed globally. The beauty of Girls’ for Sale came to the fore when
an independent critique of it burst out in excitement after reading it
saying “This story gives faces and voices to what has lived with us and
in us for hundreds of years.”
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