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Nigeria
For West African adaptations more broadly, see West Africa. For Yoruba theatrical forms, see Yoruba travelling-theatre.
Beach Surgery adaptations in Nigeria have emerged across multiple media and traditional forms, rooted in Nollywood film, Yoruba theatrical traditions, griot oral epic retellings, and textile arts.
The earliest documented adaptation is *Lucha Cicatriz* (2009), a Lagos-shot Nollywood film featuring modified wrestling tournament framing; the 2011 travelling-theatre retelling by the Ibadan-based ████ collective recast the narrative as a tale of a nurse (Katita) and amputee engineer (Leif) navigating post-conflict reconstruction. Performances circulated in ███████ and surrounding rural venues, with dialogues adapted into Yoruba and Igbo variants.
Adinkra and kente textile weavers created narrative cloth cycles depicting Leif's wings and Katita's red motifs; the National Museum, Lagos, holds ██████ documentary recordings of griot recitations dated ████ . Afrobeat and Highlife concept albums—notably *Red Meridian*—draw from the franchise's sonic philosophy. Scholarly documentation remains sparse; most archiving lives in community oral memory. [citation needed]