Two years after Nigeria fended off what could have been a devastating Ebola epidemic, the 12-week ordeal is playing out again — only this time, on a movie screen.
The Nigerian docudrama "93 Days," which premiered in Lagos on Tuesday, chronicles the harrowing weeks in the summer of 2014 when a man ill with the Ebola virus arrived in the city from Liberia.
The movie title is simply the numbers of days Nigeria battled Ebola; from when the US diplomat, Patrick Sawyer arrived Nigeria to the day the country was declared Ebola free by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
"93 Days" dramatizes the work of Nigerian and international health workers who responded to the virus’s arrival in the city and prevented its transmission.
“It’s a success story, it’s a story of how Nigerians came together to fight this dreadful disease. And very rarely do we have this kind of beautiful story being told about ourselves,” said producer Bolanle Austen-Peters.
The movie was shot in the same neighborhoods and in some of the same buildings where sick patients were treated. That gave it an unusual level of realism.
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