Author: Michael Aromolaran

Oloture, premiering on Netflix in 2020, ends on a despondent note. A bus crosses the Seme border and slowly but surely recedes into the horizon, taking its helpless female occupants into what likely will be a difficult if not fatal future. They presumably are being trafficked to Europe where, to buy back their freedom, they must negotiate a bleak black market of transactional sex. Played by Sharon Ooja, one of the women is the eponymous Oloture, a fresh-faced undercover journalist who becomes a victim herself while investigating the inhuman world of human trafficking. A raw, keen-eyed study of human trafficking…