News: Nigerian Censors Board Orders Re-editing Of "Half Of A Yellow Sun" Movie

Nigerian censors in their latest statement on the film, Half Of A Yellow Sun (HOAYS) said the movie could undermine national security. They therefore want cuts to allow the film, partly set during Nigeria’s 1960s civil war, to be shown to Nigerians. The movie adaptation of Ngozi Adichie Chimamanda’s “Half of a Yellow Sun” is still not showing in Nigeria, close to two months after it made its debut in cinemas worldwide.
The statement by the Censors Board said the board was still awaiting a response from the exhibitors to a May 27 letter “requiring the distributor to expunge/edit some clearly stated objectionable aspects.”
There was no immediate response from the British-Nigerian producers of the movie which made its debut in Britain in April and in the United States in May.