In Nigeria, documentary films spark social change
Feb 07, 2019
3 minutes
Every morning, as dawn breaks through the gritty black smog encasing Nigeria’s Port Harcourt, Prince Peter hangs a Lumix GH4 camera around his neck and walks out of his house in search of his next story.
If he is not filming acts of forced eviction in the city, he is chronicling life in one of its waterfront shantytowns for the documentaries he regularly produces.
“I see this [camera] as my eyeglass,” he says. “In the case of forced evictions, instantly, I must be there.”
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