In Nigeria, power enables the possessor to arrogate to himself/herself some form of
infallibility and perfection in knowledge in matters of decision taking. It is especially so …

There are hierarchies and rankings of power relations between different classes of men in
each society. Men of varying ranks of masculinity choose diverse grounds on which to …

A careful evaluation of Nigeria's film industry, Nollywood, reveals a tilted production of
movies about domestic life, referred to as" true-lifestories," making its filmmaking realistic …

Abstract While Nollywood, Nigeria's movie/film industry, may have had a chequered history,
it has no doubt carved a niche for itself in the global space of the film industry. It currently …

Film as a medium of communication uses visual and auditory signs between senders and
receivers. It is considered as one of the most influential areas of media. The art form in …

The paper interrogates the thematic preoccupations of Jeta Amata's Black November on the
vexed issues of the Niger Delta in Nigeria. The issues bordering on the quest for …

Late in 2019 film studies lost two of its founding members that help define the field as a
discipline with their work in the last 50 years. Thomas Elsaesser was one of the founding …

This article examines grammatical transitivity in religious discourse through Halliday's
grammatical system of transitivity under the ideational metafunction-one of the three …

Tunde Kelani (TK) is one of the few astute lmmakers of the African continent whose
cinematic works defy laid-down artistic styles and conventions. He expresses his cinematic …

Much of the criticism on Tunde Kelani's 1999 film Saworoide ('drum with a brass bell'), has
focused on the political and socio-cultural relevance of the film to Nigerian history. Many …