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The Supreme Price at MIT

  • MIT Building 32 Room 123 Cambridge, 02139 (map)
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Directed by Joanna Lipper

March 6, 2015 from 7:00-9pm*

MIT Campus Building 32 Room 123

The Supreme Price is a feature length documentary film that traces the evolution of the Pro-Democracy Movement in Nigeria and efforts to increase the participation of women in leadership roles. Following the annulment of her father's victory in Nigeria's Presidential Election and her mother's assassination by agents of the military dictatorship, Hafsat Abiola faces the challenge of transforming a corrupt culture of governance into a democracy capable of serving Nigeria's most marginalized population: women.

Film to be followed by Q&A discussion with director Joanna Lipper.

*pizza served at 6:30pm

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