Nollywood's Africa

Week 12 - November 5

Movie: The Prostitute (Kingsley Ogoro 2000)

• Read Jonathan Haynes article: "Nollywood: What's in a Name?"
• Read my article "Nollywood Confidential: the unlikely rise of Nigerian video film." (Transition Magazine. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University. 95: 98-109.)

The Lagos go-slow is back! This time in Tony Tetuila's classic My Car

 

Week 13 - November 12

Movie: Blood Money (Ojiofor Ezeanyanche 1996)

• Read my article: "Madness, Money, and Movies: Watching Nigerian Popular Videos with a Native Doctor's Guidance." Africa Today. 2002. 49(3): 78-94.
• Read: an editorial from Uganda condemning the effect of "voodoo infested" movies from Nigeria

In keeping with the Nollywood in Uganda theme, watch : Ki Nigeria by Harriet Kisakye (2006)

 

Week 14 - November 19

Movie: Issakaba (Lancelot Imasuen 2000)

• Read: "Juju and Justice at the Movies: Vigilantes in Nigerian Popular Videos." (African Studies Review. 2004. 47(3): 51-67.

 

Week 15 - November 26 - Thanksgiving Break

Week 16 - December 3

Movie: Osuofia in London (Kingsley Ogoro 2003)

Check out Osuofia in London, the music video, a musical synopsis of the movie in Pidgen English

 

Finals Week - Friday, Dec 12

We'll meet: 3:10-05:10

Movie: Osuofia in London 2 (Kingsley Ogoro 2003)

ANTH 271 - African in African Cinema A course by John C. McCall SIUC Department of Anthropology Carbondale, IL 62901-4502	Back to top