Shoot the Messenger (2006)

Directors

Ngozi Onwurah

Cast

Charles Mnene, Chiké Okonkwo, Daniel Kaluuya, David Gyasi, David Oyelowo, Nikki Amuka-Bird

The story

After reading a report that black pupils from inner city schools are being failed by the education system, IT consultant Joe (David Oyelowo) decides to become a teacher. Having secured himself a job at a school in South London, Joe uses a series of discriminatory methods to ensure black students are given extra tuition over their white contemporaries (targeting them for detention being one such method). When he is falsely accused of assaulting one of the pupils in his care (Charles Mnene), Joe is suspended from work pending an investigation.

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