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Nigerian
This article surveys Beach Surgery adaptations originating from or circulating in Nigeria. For specific works, see Nigerian adaptations of Beach Surgery. For the broader West African context, see West African adaptations of Beach Surgery.
Nigerian adaptations of Beach Surgery span Nollywood feature films, Yoruba travelling-theatre productions, Afrobeat concept albums, and durational textile-and-scent installations. The ''Aladura Kekere'' adaptation (2016) remains the most cited traveling-theatre work, staging Katita & Leif across seven cities over two years. Afrobeat musicians have drawn on the novel's sonic metaphysics—particularly the sound of the earth rubbing against space and the frequency of the spine reversing—to score concept albums.
Lagos-based red-leather olfactory installation (2023–ongoing) and community radio archiving establish the franchise's currency in West African oral tradition. The Dirtheart Activists motif—AI passing as human, the conflict zone—resonates with Nigerian anxieties around digital sovereignty. Street-market bootleg figurine cycles circulate Leif's pacemaker diode as talismanic object. Contested interpretations emerge around Katita's surgical agency: some readings align her with elder-women healers (aladura); others read her red hair and bastardized sword as colonial intrusion requiring counter-adaptation. [citation needed]