English and the Audience of an African Popular Culture: The Case of Nigerian Video Film

Adejunmobi, Moradewun

doi:10.1353/cul.2002.0001

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“…Moradewun Adejumobi (2002) traces the origins of Nigerian Video Filmmaking to the Yoruba travelling Theatre Tradition (77), Hyginus Ekwuazi (2007), dates it back to the era of the documentary activities of the British Colonial Film Unit (132), Nosa Owens-Ibie lastly provides the missing link of the year the Colonial Film Unit was set up. According to Owens-Ibie in Nigreian Movies and Films, a colonial Film Unit was set up in 1939, with most of its programme content consisting of British Documentaries (4 of 10).…”

Section: Brief History Of the Nigerian Video Film Industrymentioning

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Nollywood Mothering: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of the Concept of Motherhood in Select Nigerian Films

Odi¹

2016

AFRREV IJAH: Int J. Art and Humanities

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In the two decades of Nollywood's existence, the industry has x-rayed the gamut of human happenings in Nigeria and non-Nigerian societies and films based on themes within the realms of the emotional, psychological, political, social, religious, ritual, cultural, economic and more have been produced. The various genres of filmic arts have been employed and the products of this filmic media have been produced for local and international circulation. No sphere of the Nigerian society has remained sacrosanct from Nigerian Movie Makers. The theme of Motherhood has, like other themes, been variously explored severally in Nollywood films. Motherhood in the Nigerian society is greatly esteemed and held sacred. It is at the same time an institution in which the mothers most times are treated with less than the dignity, respect and humanity they deserve from the society. The portrayal of Motherhood in Nollywood movies, have also spanned the spectrum of conceivable and inconceivable mothering abilities in the Nigerian society. This essay intends to critically analyse the concept of motherhood as portrayed by the Nollywood Movie industry, using select relevant films to advance our purpose. Findings are expected to determine the level of accuracy in

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Section: Brief History Of the Nigerian Video Film Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

Nollywood Mothering: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of the Concept of Motherhood in Select Nigerian Films

Odi¹

2016

AFRREV IJAH: Int J. Art and Humanities

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“…Nonetheless, Old Nollywood continued to give considerable attention to stories about the acquisition of wealth. Indeed, many early Nollywood films have been described as deeply aspirational (see Adejunmobi 2002). And by the time New Nollywood made its appearance as the first decade of the twenty-first century was coming to an end, representations of wealth in Nigerian popular culture had undergone further modification.…”

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Neoliberal Rationalities in Old and New Nollywood

Adejunmobi

2015

Afr. stud. rev.

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This article focuses on shifts, or "new waves," within contemporary African film as sites of struggle and moments of exposure of the divergent forces at work in the struggle. From this perspective, attempts at initiating a new style in commercially oriented storytelling do not so much culminate in a break with previous styles of storytelling as they create a new space for tension over ideological claims and narrative coherence. As illustration, the article considers the competing logics at work in the strategies or rationalities associated with the branch of Nigerian filmmaking described as New Nollywood.Résumé: Cet article se concentre sur des changements, ou de "nouvelles vagues," dans le cinéma africain contemporain perçu comme sites de lutte et moments de révélation des forces divergentes à l'oeuvre dans la lutte. Dans cette perspective, les tentatives de lancement d'un nouveau style dans la narration à vocation commerciale, représente moins une cassure avec les styles narratifs précédents, qu'il ne crée un nouvel espace pour une tension entre revendications idéologiques et cohérence narrative. A titre d'illustration, l'article examine les logiques concurrentes à l'oeuvre dans les stratégies ou rationalités associées avec la branche de cinéma nigérian décrit sous le nom de Nouveau Nollywood.

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“…In Africa, the Nigerian film industry, Nollywood, has emerged in recent years as a powerful pan-African film industry not simply restricted to the African continent, but extending to the Black diaspora (Haynes and Okome 1998;Haynes 2000Haynes , 2006Haynes , 2010Adejunmobi 2002;McCall 2004;Ebewo 2007;Offord 2009;Omoera 2009). …”

Section: The Hausa Video Film Soundtrackmentioning

confidence: 99%

The muse's journey: transcultural translators and the domestication of Hindi music in Hausa popular culture

Adamu

2010

Journal of African Cultural Studies

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English and the Audience of an African Popular Culture: The Case of Nigerian Video Film

Cited by 40 publications

References 28 publications

Nollywood Mothering: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of the Concept of Motherhood in Select Nigerian Films

Nollywood Mothering: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of the Concept of Motherhood in Select Nigerian Films

Neoliberal Rationalities in Old and New Nollywood

The muse's journey: transcultural translators and the domestication of Hindi music in Hausa popular culture

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