{"id":226907,"date":"2026-03-15T01:22:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-flashback-revisiting-the-prostitute-nollywoods-controversial-film-25-years-after\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T01:22:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:22:01","slug":"nigeria-flashback-revisiting-the-prostitute-nollywoods-controversial-film-25-years-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-flashback-revisiting-the-prostitute-nollywoods-controversial-film-25-years-after\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Flashback &#8211; Revisiting &#8216;The Prostitute&#8217;, Nollywood&#8217;s Controversial Film, 25 Years After"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">This film shocked Nigerians and pushed Nollywood&#8217;s storytelling into a bold new territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">In 2001, while Nigeria was celebrating Agbani Darego&#8217;s historic Miss World victory and the GSM revolution was transforming communication, filmmaker Kingsley Ogoro released The Prostitute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">This film shocked Nigerians and pushed Nollywood&#8217;s storytelling into bold new territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Mr Ogoro, the brain behind <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/entertainment\/nollywood\/409115-nkem-owoh-to-reprise-iconic-role-in-osuofia-goes-to-miami.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Osuofia<\/a><\/strong> movies, stirred conversation with this film that broke stereotypes with bold storytelling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size:...<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603130603.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This film shocked Nigerians and pushed Nollywood&#8217;s storytelling into a bold new territory. In 2001, while Nigeria was celebrating Agbani Darego&#8217;s historic Miss World victory and the GSM revolution was transforming communication, filmmaker Kingsley Ogoro released The Prostitute. This film shocked Nigerians and pushed Nollywood&#8217;s storytelling into bold new territory. Mr Ogoro, the brain behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":226908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,11087,7824,50816,257,4687,393,53910,25412,22292,254,5114],"class_list":["post-226907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-controversial","tag-film","tag-flashback","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nollywoods","tag-prostitute","tag-revisiting","tag-south-africa-today","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}