Biafra

Anyanwu, Chukwuma

doi:10.1386/fint_00088_1

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“…This development and other harsh government-sponsored acts of direct and indirect censorship have cowed the Nigerian filmmaker from attempting any significant move toward telling the story of Biafra. According to Anyanwu (2021), there is a creative void and a conspiratory silence from Nollywood regarding the issue of Biafra. Anyanwu wonders why such a remarkable watershed in the history of Nigeria has received limited cinematic attention by Nollywood, which remains one of the largest film industries in the world.…”

Section: Repression and Suppression Of Historymentioning

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The Biafra Story in Film: An Appraisal of Biyi Bandele’s <i>Half of a Yellow Sun</i>

Onwuliri

2024

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Diverse scholarly and artistic expressions in book form and documentary films have been employed to document the story of the Nigerian Civil War by persons who were actively or peripherally involved in the events surrounding it. Attempts at telling the story have been coloured by different factors like military, political, ethno religious and egocentric considerations. This study examined the war's account through Biyi Bandele’s Half of a Yellow Sun, a filmic adaptation of Chimamanda Adichie’s novel with the same title. Using qualitative content analysis method and grounded on the Trauma and Cinema Theory, the study examined the film’s representation of historical facts and how such perspectives may have been received. The film's reception by the Nigerian cinema audience and government through the cinema regulatory authority were examined. The study concluded that the suppression of critical historical facts in the film through censorship represents the unwillingness of the government to allow for citizen conversation, which the film could provoke and which may lead to proper closure and possibly lay to rest, the ghost of the fratricidal war that almost ripped the country apart between July 1967 and January 1970.

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Section: Repression and Suppression Of Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Biafra Story in Film: An Appraisal of Biyi Bandele’s <i>Half of a Yellow Sun</i>

Onwuliri

2024

IJCRH

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Biafra

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The Biafra Story in Film: An Appraisal of Biyi Bandele’s <i>Half of a Yellow Sun</i>

The Biafra Story in Film: An Appraisal of Biyi Bandele’s <i>Half of a Yellow Sun</i>

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