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How Ngozi Onwurah’s Dystopian ‘Welcome II the Terrordome’ Went from Lost ’90s Black Indie to Long-Overdue Rediscovery

English-Nigerian filmmaker Ngozi Onwurah made history in 1995 with the first feature directed by a Black British woman to be released in U.K. cinemas, “ Welcome II the Terrordome .

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English-Nigerian filmmaker Ngozi Onwurah made history in 1995 with the first feature directed by a Black British woman to be released in U.K. cinemas, “ Welcome II the Terrordome .” The scorching Afrofuturist dystopian nightmare that told of decades of oppression to come (and of centuries past mired in it), was lost to time. Until now.

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