A Nijla Mumin review in Shadow & Act:
There’s a scene in Victor Viyuoh’s film "Ninah’s Dowry," where Ninah (Mbufung Seikeh) is beaten and then strung up to a ceiling by her severely abusive husband, Memfi (Anurin Nwunembom), who leaves her there as a form of punishment. This scene, and many others, reminded me of a scene in Steve McQueen’s "12 Years A Slave," where Solomon Northup is left hanging to a tree for an entire day, as he holds onto life. But the brutality in this film is not based on race, but rather gender. Like Northup, Ninah wills to survive this brutality and break free of a system of bondage; one that sees women as property in marriage.More here
