Slave Dancer: Audacity Of A Female Vow

Produced in 2016, the movie is a story of post-war survival.  

“Slave Dancer” is a 2016 Nigerian/Cameroonian movie thanks to a fruitful collaboration between Cameroonian actress and producer, Princess Brun Njua and veteran Nollywood producer and actor Chidi Chikere. The film is a production of an African princess whose vow to survive becomes the audacity of the tale which was shot on locations in Asaba, located in Delta State, Nigeria.

Directed by Tchidi Chikere, the film presents the Ntu kingdom which has just been wiped out by the rival and more powerful kingdom of Azi. Three of the most beautiful women in Ntu land survived the massacre and are carried into slavery by their invaders and new masters. Subdued, shared as booties of war and sex slaves among the noble men of Azi kingdom, Akalama, Nayo and Une decide they must find more creative and bitter ways of vengeance, even if it means dancing in the face of death.

The producer, Brun Njua, who played the role of Akalama, one of the captured ladies says the film was written because past history always has exciting events and great lessons to learn. “Events that happen in our past are a mirror to our future, thus the saying ‘only fools forge ahead and forget their past,” the producer noted. Her message through the film is simple: “Women are powerful” and can control even the stronges...