Film Screening : 04.02.2025, Taiwo Shango or: The Second Day After Death

Dir. by Klaus Stephan, BRD/NG 1965
German version with English subtitlesWith an introduction by Onookome Okome(Professor of African Literature and Cinemaat the Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton; Guest Professor at Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany)The sophisticated lawyer Taiwo Shango (Christopher Kolade) visits his European friend Dr. Brian (Howard Vernon as the only non-Nigerian actor) in a small Nigerian town. This coincides with the death