Boko Haram Movie Debuts!

[Shola Sholaz]

A vicious would-be suicide bomber is heading for Nigeria's vast metropolis of Lagos and only a down-on-her-luck prostitute can stop a horrific attack.
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This ominous fiction forms part of "Boko Haram", a new film by Ghanaian-Nigeria director Pascal Amanfo, which has been banned by censors in Ghana and shunned by cinema owners in Nigeria.
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DVDs for sale are pictured in a store on September 24, 2013 in Accra. The new film by Ghanaian-Nigerian director Pascal Amanfo "Boko Haram" has been banned by censors in Ghana and shunned by cinema owners in Nigeria.
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A movie inspired by the very real and brutal Islamist group active in Nigeria was potentially so inflammatory that it was released in the country with the title "Nation Under Siege" to avoid a backlash.
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"Boko Haram", loosely translated, means "Western education is forbidden" and the group has said it is fighting to impose a strict Islamic state in mainly Muslim northern Nigeria.