Abstract

In this essay, I examine Teco Benson’s 2002 film, Formidable Force, which was released three years after the transition from military dictatorship to democratic rule in Nigeria in 1999. Specifically, I focus on how the film critiques political leadership and its insistence on patriotic and morally-responsible citizenship, as well as citizen-law enforcement collaboration as imperatives for social change in Nigeria. In proposing this reading of the film, I seek to contribute to the meager but growing body of scholarship that analyzes the socio-political issues that Nollywood films raise.

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