Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival

The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos

The Agbajowo Collective, Nigeria / Germany / South Africa / USA, 2024, 101 mins

The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos tells the story of a young mother from a waterfront slum in Lagos who stumbles upon a horde of corrupt blood-money earmarked for a luxury condo development to be built where her community stands, and a journey that takes her from isolated individualism to a being a unifying force in a community that stands to lose everything. The film brings the audience into the world of Lagos’s waterfront settlements with an unprecedented realism – one in which the magical is woven into the mundane, and where the waterways and footpaths bustle in ancestral rhythms under the shadow of ever-encroaching urbanization.

Time: 7:30pm