THE LEGEND OF THE VAGABOND QUEEN OF LAGOS

Agbajowo Collective
Nigeria/ Germany/ South Africa/ USA 2024 | Original version with English subtitles I 101 min
Q&A with Bisola Akinmuyiwa to follow

FR 14 NOV
18:00 FSK KINO

Single mother Jawu bears the mark of a warrior king as a birthmark on her back, yet lives modestly with her son in the fictional community of Agbojedo, a floating waterfront settlement in the Lagos lagoon threatened by eviction. She sells local food at the market, saving for a better future for herself and her son Daniel. When she accidentally discovers a bag full of cash hidden on behalf of a corrupt local politician named Abisoro, her life takes a radical turn. She faces a choice: use the money for her own survival or wield it as a weapon against her oppressors…

Straddling documentary fiction and revenge thriller, the story of the Agbajowo Collective is a radical call for justice—born from lived experience. THE LEGEND OF THE VAGABOND QUEEN OF LAGOS is based on the real experiences of the Egun fishing community of Otodo Gbame, an informal waterfront settlement in Lagos. Between November 2016 and April 2017, over 30,000 residents of this community were forcibly displaced.

The film premiered in the Centrepiece program of the Toronto International Film Festival.  

THE AGBAJOWO COLLECTIVE consists of Okechukwu Samuel, Ogungbamila Temitope, Akinmuyiwa Bisola, Atinkpo Elijah, Edukpo Tina, James Tayler, and Mathew Cerf—filmmakers and storytellers, some of whom come from the very communities in Lagos that were affected by the evictions in 2016 and 2017.