A new documentary charts the success of Nigeria in the 1990s and what it meant to the country’s people, including the daughter of the executed activist Ken Saro-Wiwa
t may be more than 25 years since Celestine Babayaro was part of the Nigerian men’s football team that made history by winning a gold medal at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta as a teenager, but the former Chelsea and Newcastle defender still retains his youthful exuberance when he thinks back to that moment.
It also features interviews with some of Babayaro’s teammates, including Taribo West, Jay-Jay Okocha and Emmanuel Amunike – scorer of the winning goal in the Olympic final against an Argentina side that featured Diego Simeone and Hernán Crespo. There’s also a killer soundtrack. “Noo was really important to have in the story because the case was central to Nigeria having this unwanted global attention at the time,” says Bamiro. “We had to connect it because I always thought that Ken Saro-Wiwa couldn’t be a footnote or paragraph in our film.
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