{"id":167659,"date":"2026-07-03T14:13:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/programm\/termin\/other-en\/oversabi-aunty-167659\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T13:03:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T11:03:30","slug":"oversabi-aunty","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/programm\/termin\/film-video-en\/oversabi-aunty-167659\/","title":{"rendered":"Oversabi Aunty"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Toun is a woman of firm conviction, a church usher married with four children. Toun always knows best, is always right, and keeps everyone on their toes with the tasks she assigns! Her \u2018know-it-all\u2018 archetype is not only at home, but also at church, and with friends and family. However, her facade begins to falter at a wedding of all places, causing massive chaos in the huge family… Oversabi Aunty is a fast-paced, dramatic comedy about Toun a Yoruba woman married to an Igbo man, living together under one roof in present-day Lagos. Can you imagine the chaos, or not?<\/p>\n

Toyin Abraham serves as the film\u2019s lead actress, director, producer, and screenwriter all in one: perhaps the combination of all these roles were necessary to bring to life such a powerful and deeply moving dramedy that strips away the masks of religious hypocrisy to expose a family wrestling with the fine line between faith and blind fanaticism.<\/p>\n

Nigerian audiences have rewarded Toyin Abraham\u2019s courage in making a film which is as entertaining as it is dramatic about tribalism and generational conflicts in modern-day Lagos. Oversabi Aunty was a huge box-office success across generations and ethnic communities in Nigeria and West Africa.<\/p>\n

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in English\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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