Naked Beauty

A young Nigerian artist goes to an Island and discovers a village maiden who proves that there is more to her beauty than her nudity.

Naked Beauty explores the intellectual abilities in relationship with the sexual instincts of a young man and a younger woman. But Naked Beauty is more than meets the eye of the beholder.

About Naked Beauty

Naked Beauty is a metaphor of the unappreciated natural beauty of the humanity of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria that produces the oil that is the mainstay of the Nigerian economy.

The Niger Delta region of Nigeria is known as the most dangerous region in Nigeria as many foreign oil workers have been kidnapped and some have been killed by the native militant youths terrorizing the multinational oil companies operating in the Niger Delta. And over 1,000 villagers have been killed in catastrophic explosions caused oil spillages and leakages of oil pipelines and thousands more have been killed in bloody conflicts over the ownership of oil produced from the Niger Delta. The greed for oil has made the majority of the people to be ignorant of the abundant human resources in the Niger Delta, so that they have abandoned farming and fishing to vandalize oil pipelines or to work in marginal oil fields. And the over dependence on mineral resources have deprived them of the full realization of the enormous benefits of their human resources. Naked Beauty is meant to enlighten them and prod them to appreciate and celebrate the beauty of their human resources.

The story shows a young Nigerian Tonye from the Niger Delta region in his quest for the aesthetics of life and soon discovers the natural beauty of the Niger Delta personified by a village maiden Oma on Bonny Island and he decides to show what he has discovered to the whole world. Oma symbolizes the beauty of the Niger Delta that the rest of the world does not know much about. And he brings out the hidden treasures of the Niger Delta in contrast to the greed for oil as he diverts the attention of others from the leaking oil pipeline and chooses to celebrate the virgin beauty of Oma and her people who live on fishing.

The greed for oil leads to the quarrel over who has more rights to steal from the leaking oil pipeline and as expected the volatile quarrel causes the catastrophic oil pipeline explosion that killed many of the greedy villagers and destroyed the village. But Oma and her family survive to symbolize that the hope of the Niger Delta is on the appreciation and celebration of the natural beauty of her people and their arts and culture.

For the full story already written in a published screenplay co-authored by the prize winning Nigerian writer Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima and prize winning Nollywood Filmmaker Chika Christian Onu of the Glamour Girls fame, see Naked Beauty.