{"id":859,"date":"2010-12-26T14:36:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-26T22:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.africanfilmfestival.org\/?p=859"},"modified":"2011-01-10T13:33:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T21:33:17","slug":"arugba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/arugba\/","title":{"rendered":"ARUGBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serving as an allegory for contemporary Nigeria, <em>Arugba<\/em> is the latest film by leading Nigerian filmmaker Tunde Kelani. Longtime CFAF audience members know Mr. Kelani\u2019s films (<em>Thunderbolt<\/em> at CFAF 2002, <em>The Narrow Path <\/em>at CFAF 2008, and <em>Abeni <\/em>at CFAF 2009) as an entertaining blend of social commentary, romantic comedy, and traditional moral tale. <em>Arugba<\/em> continues in this vein. Add singing and dancing, some health lessons, a little Barack Obama, and a bit of kung fu, and you\u2019ve got \u201cNollywood\u201d at its best. Adetutu, a university student and the niece of a provincial king, has been chosen to be the \u201cceremonial virgin\u201d in the traditional masquerade festival. She is beautiful, intelligent, courteous, talented, and courageous. But will she be able to save her people from the pervasive corruption and intrigues in the king\u2019s palaces?<\/p>\n<p>In Yoruba and English with English subtitles.<\/p>\n<h3>Trailer<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FSOlIHjw7Cc\" frameborder=\"0\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serving as an allegory for contemporary Nigeria, Arugba is the latest film by leading Nigerian filmmaker Tunde Kelani. Longtime CFAF audience members know Mr. Kelani\u2019s films (Thunderbolt at CFAF 2002, The Narrow Path at CFAF 2008, and Abeni at CFAF 2009) as an entertaining blend of social commentary, romantic comedy, and traditional moral tale. Arugba [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nigeria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}