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12 Hollywood Movies That Have Showcased Nigeria (Photos)

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bourne-identity11. The Bourne Identity

The Bourne Identity is a 2002 American-German spy action thriller film adaptation of Robert Ludlum’s novel of the same name. It stars Matt Damon as Jason.

 
The Bourne Identity – uses Yoruba as the national language of a fictional African country (with Adewale Agbaje as the leader).

 

12. Sugar Hill

Sugar Hill is a 1974 horror blaxploitation zombie film released by AIP.

 

Nigerians are portrayed in this movie as ‘yoruba speaking’ drug dealers (best part of the film was where Wesley Snipes asks them what ‘Akata’ meant grin).
Akátá is a word believed to be derived from the Igbo people of Nigeria in West Africa. The term … black Americans, the word is also perceived to be pejorative.

The word was erroneously translated as “cotton picker” in the 1994 film Sugar Hill.

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