B For Boy (Chika Anadu, 2013)
Uche Nwadili in Chika Anadu's B For Boy
Chika Anadu’s debut feature tells the story Amaka (newcomer Uche Nwadili), a middle-class Nigerian woman approaching 40 who’s in desperate need to give birth to a male child. On the two main themes she explores in the film, Anadu tells BFI: “One is an uneasy sense of traditional and modern culture coexisting in Nigeria, and the second is injustice against women, perpetuated and sustained by other women. The victims become the victimisers, so to speak. I think it derives from anger on the part of women who put up with this inequality – who are you to balk at tradition?”
