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No-Go Zones: Nigeria - Hotoro Drug Wars
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No-Go Zones: Nigeria - Hotoro Drug Wars

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In the Hotoro slum of Kano, Nigeria, a crew films the drug trade at street level: dealers, users, and the violence that follows them. The people on camera are not actors but residents the filmmakers say locals confirmed as genuine, including teenagers and younger children already using drugs openly in daylight. The film contrasts Kano's reputation as one of Nigeria's more attractive cities with the slum economy that has grown up around narcotics, and it pushes past the street corner to ask who actually controls the supply chain. The answer, as the crew presents it, is unglamorous and unexpected: the people moving drugs into the city are not the visible enforcers but quieter figures who would never be suspected, part of a wider network the film admits it only partly maps. Handheld footage and on-the-ground interviews carry the story rather than reenactment or studio narration, giving the report the rough texture of a crew working somewhere genuinely dangerous.